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The United Bank for Africa recently “named and shamed” three forex defaulters by publishing their names on the bank’s website. The first two people on the list were said to have cancelled their trips but failed to return the Personal Travel Allowance availed them by the bank despite repeated correspondences by the bank agents. The […]
Continue ReadingTomorrow marks Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary. While we lament about what might have been and politicians play their usual games that contribute nothing to the welfare of people, let me confess straightaway that the copyright for the title of this piece is not mine. But there is an interesting backstory to it. Late in July […]
Continue ReadingSimon Kolawole, publisher of The Cable online newspaper, wrote, “I hate to imagine what… public office holders who end up as ethnic champions must have quietly done against other regions (of Nigeria) while in (sensitive and powerful federal public) service (positions).” Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, now Director of Publicity of Northern Elders’ Forum, worked in the Office of […]
Continue ReadingIn today’s world, except in very few circumstances, poverty is a lifestyle choice, or a function of ignorance, because there are endless opportunities to create wealth with minimal effort and average intellectual input. And this information needs to spread like wildfire in Africa, because our continent is unnecessarily plagued by poverty that can be addressed […]
Continue ReadingThe suya burnt his palms, but he was stoic, like a true Christian. Initially, he tossed the hot suya from palm to palm ping-pong, then flung open the Holy Bible with his left hand, and ripped off pages from the New Testament, placing the hot suya on the word of Christ. Calm embalms his palms. […]
Continue ReadingHadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation has since announced the proposed concession of four of Nigeria’s major airports: Murtala Muhammad International Airport Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt International Airport, Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Despite huge investments in these airports, they have continued to operate at sub-optimal levels, and have […]
Continue ReadingAlhaji Baba Ahmed, a Mauritanian cow seller, plied his trade from his country to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and to Dahomey (now Benin Republic). Business was very good but at a point, his customers in Dahomey, with impunity, refused to pay for his cows. Is it not the law that every seller must collect […]
Continue ReadingMy decision to vote for Candidate Olusegun Obasanjo in the 1999 presidential election was influenced by many factors, one of which was his acceptability across regions and religions. Here was a southerner acceptable to northerners, a Yoruba acceptable to Hausa-Fulani and Igbo, a Christian acceptable to Muslims, and a civilian acceptable to the military. Although […]
Continue ReadingIn the pantheon of Nigerian rulers, President Buhari occupies an uncontestable stool. He is the first leader to return to power on the strength of a faulty myth rather than on a record of demonstrable achievements. The political marketers of the Buhari candidacy in the count down to the 2015 elections were armed mostly with […]
Continue ReadingPolitics, ultimately, is about the people. Policymakers always allude to the interest of the masses as the raison dètre of their policy contents. It therefore goes without saying that all policies appear to be people-friendly until their implementation, when the real and intended beneficiaries are exposed. At the outset, every administrator tells the people that […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, please, allow me to remind you of an article I wrote in 2014 titled IN SEARCH OF MATHEMATICIANS. It was a simple calculation and permutation I made about how Major General Muhammadu Buhari was going to defeat the incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential election. As at that time, the […]
Continue ReadingSome ill winds are hovering over the reputation and public perception of the judicial arm of government. These evil winds need to be dispelled, because of their negative impact on the image of the judiciary; and also because of their national security implications. In doing that, we must first make a distinction between the questionable, […]
Continue ReadingThe press conference where the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, castigated abokifx.com was painfully pathetic. For a banker and economist, he was long on allegations and emotionalism and short on actual substance. Even though he stated that the information he had were “preliminary findings,” it was still woefully inchoate. Nothing he alleged translated into a […]
Continue ReadingWith the way we are running our country, I said in my Platform Nigeria 1st May 2019 presentation, ‘An Economy on Life Support: Time to Pull the Plug’, a convulsion was inevitable at some point. “It’s either we have a conversation about the future of our country in an orderly manner or it is forced […]
Continue ReadingLast Thursday, when the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) reportedly slumped at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the story of the late enfant terrible of Oyo State politics, Busari Adelakun, crept into my memory. Media reports said that Bawa slumped at an occasion commemorating the National Identity Day. Same last week, Nigeria was […]
Continue Reading“Fellow countrymen and women…You are all living witnesses to the great economic predicament and uncertainty, which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved nation for the past four years. I am referring to the harsh, intolerable conditions under which we are now living. Our economy has been hopelessly mismanaged. We have become […]
Continue ReadingIt emerged late last week that Communications and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami (or his agents) possibly instructed Zamfara State governor Bello Muhammad Mutawalle to place an advertorial in the Daily Trust to congratulate Pantami on his “promotion to the Rank of Full Professor of Cybersecurity” by an unnamed university. (In the advertorial, Mutawalle repeated […]
Continue ReadingWith a tongue roughly twice the length of its body, and a brocade of dubious colours for skin, the chameleon is the ultimate invisible animal predator. Without premonition, small creatures like worms and insects searching for daily bread disappear suddenly into the Bermuda Triangle in the belly of the dodgy chameleon via a sticky, snappy […]
Continue ReadingCivil society groups, including Non-Governmental Organisations are a positive force for change and progress in society, oftentimes helping to bridge the gaps of alienation between government and the people. In developed parts of the world, CSOs and NGOs have been in the forefront of making our world a much better place by helping to fight […]
Continue ReadingThe National Assembly last Tuesday received a presidential request for yet fresh foreign loans. This time, it is $4billion and €710million (N2trillion) to finance ‘critical projects’ in the 2021 budget. Our lawmakers will approve the loan request without asking any question. It is not the first loan request this year and it won’t be the […]
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