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Over the years, I have picked a rather disturbing sentiment from men about the attitude of most wives to the man’s folks. I often say that those that will come into the lives of our children treat us as we have treated those we are in the lives of their children. If you can earnestly […]
Continue ReadingIf you grew up on comics, or followed the television series and movies; from Superman, Batman and Robin, Spiderman and their types, you may believe that all superheroes wear capes. You may also believe, as one superman film was promoted, that if you see the movie you will believe a man can fly. I was […]
Continue ReadingBefore the mania of “rotational presidency” or “power shift” or similar platitudes seizes the air as a prelude to the 2023 elections, let us refute the myth of something called a “northern” or “southern” president in Nigeria. The term is a misnomer, a parody of ownership of power in the country’s rigidly hierarchical political structure. […]
Continue ReadingThe ultimate question we need to ask ourselves is whether we believe we are worthy enough as a people and as a nation, to have and to manage a currency, or if we feel too worthless to have one. One-track-minded philistinism leaves us all wretched, one way or another. I have been struggling to write […]
Continue ReadingArmed robbers broke into a man’s house. They cornered him in his bedroom. In desperation, he pleaded to be allowed to say his last prayer. His assailants were amused. They told him to go ahead but make it brief. The man went down on his knees. “Father,” he cried silently, “I need you to deliver […]
Continue ReadingWhat is really happening to the southeast of Nigeria? The honest answer to that crucial question of our time should be that there isn’t a coherent official explanation yet of the incipient anarchy enveloping the zone. It is necessary to have a comprehensive account of the forces at play in the troubled zone as part […]
Continue ReadingThis message came from a man who (in reaction to my article) chose to graciously tell his story. The man said, “Most women don’t find it funny when a man insists on not dating a woman that already has children but if the men that have gone through such experiences tell you their story, you […]
Continue ReadingHappy belated 61st Independence Day Nigerians – well, whatever that means; or should it be Sad Independence Day instead, since majority of Nigerians are mostly unhappy, and feel that there isn’t much to celebrate, unless we want to engage in self-delusion. My question to every successive Nigerian Government, be it our Founding Fathers, the Military, […]
Continue ReadingWhen police stations, police and military checkpoints, offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission, and prisons in the South-East were being attacked by an unidentified group later named “unknown gunmen,” many people from the region, especially those with sympathies for the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, applauded them. Their argument was that the police […]
Continue ReadingBritish Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of chemical crystallography. Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world class computer centre in Africa. The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in nuclear physics. Our premier […]
Continue ReadingI’ve stopped bothering to listen to or read Muhammadu Buhari’s speeches for quite a while now not only because I’ve given up on the regime he leads but also because he has some of the most inept speech writers Nigeria has ever had, particularly in the last two years. But a portion of the speech […]
Continue Reading“Happy Independence Day, my brother. I hope you had a great Independence Day?” “No. I didn’t. This country don tire me.” “Tire you how? How can you get tired of your country when the other day, you and I still went to Ngozi’s place to enjoy nkwobi and isi ewu with better orisirisi? Where else […]
Continue ReadingIgboland is the new home of Hades, lord of death and king of the underworld. The land writhes in pains as rough men roast it for supper. Vultures have descended on its forests; hawks feed on its cities. Every dove there is in fearful flight. There is no sacred bird the bad boys are not […]
Continue ReadingON THE ASSERTION THAT “NO GOVERNMENT HAS DONE WHAT I DID IN 6 YEARS, – PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI IS CORRECT. First of all, I wish to say Happy Independent day Nigeria! I listened to the Independent Day National Broadcast of President Buhari on 1st October, 2021 and to my mind, he is very right to […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State was the first to open fire. He took aim, took his matter to the appropriate legal quarters and then let it all out with characteristic, even if somewhat deliberately provocative, ebullience. He hit the mark and announced his victory. Cheers came from sections of the country, particularly the South. […]
Continue ReadingI have severally made the point on this column that for us to make any meaningful progress in this country, we must, despite the risks, tell truth to both power, and ourselves. One of the weaknesses I have observed in the current administration is that those closest to the president, and are, therefore, in a […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has a lot to learn from the difficulties currently facing Kenya over the repayment of its Chinese-financed standard gauge railway (SGR). The $3.3 billion SGR cargo train is one of Kenya’s largest infrastructure projects since independence. Long before the pandemic, passenger traffic and cargo volume had fallen below expectations. With the third wave of […]
Continue ReadingThe brutal murder of Dr Chike Akunyili by the so-called “unknown gunmen” — I call them “the Boko Haram of the south-east” — has torn my heart to pieces. I was an associate member of the Akunyili family, having related closely with his wife, Prof Dora Nkem Akunyili, who did an amazing job as director-general […]
Continue ReadingIt was not surprising that the Nigerian Diaspora community would gather in New York City at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly to protest the reign of terror under President Muhammadu Buhari. What was deeply surprising was that the agents of the Nigerian government from the homeland would attempt to counter the truth by storming […]
Continue ReadingIn 2013, an indignant Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed wrote of a moving encounter he had with the Madiba, President Nelson Mandela in 2007.The subject matter of the encounter was appropriately Nigeria on which the two shared identical views. I will presently recall excerpts and lessons cited approvingly by Baba-Ahmed of what he correctly celebrated as a […]
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