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The author, Chinua Achebe, in his 1983 book, “The Trouble with Nigeria”, depicts a nation where leadership is the most critical challenge in addressing the issues of underdevelopment, nepotism, institutional corruption, inept and mediocre personality cult, and injustice that have bedeviled the nation. Nearly four decades after that publication, our national life is still plagued […]
Continue ReadingThe abduction of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and the recent terrorist attack on the leader of the movement for Odudua Nation, Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), by the Muhammadu Buhari regime, did not come as a surprise. In a recent piece, calling for the removal of the president from […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the Presidency expressed triumphalist emotions over two recent events spearheaded by the country’s security forces. The first is the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The second is the midnight invasion of the home of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho. Adeyemo is the chief […]
Continue Reading“We have been tuned to think it is constitutions (laws) that develop a society. Constitutions can NEVER take the place of visionary, competent and patriotic leadership”. “If rapid political progress is to be made in Nigeria, it is high time we were realistic in tackling its constitutional problems” –Simon Kolawole quoting Awolowo approvingly “In my […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the three incidents which caught most of Nigeria’s attention, were the arrest of fugitive from justice, Nnamdi Kanu, and his repatriation to Nigeria to come and continue his trial (and possibly face additional charges); the raid/excessive attack on Yoruba secessionist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho’s residence in Ibadan, and the passing of the […]
Continue ReadingWithin the last one week, I have been to Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State twice. Last Friday, when I left Yenogoa, Bayelsa State, I drove straight to Amafor-Imerienwe to spend a few moments with my friend, Dr. Sam Amadi, chair of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) who was burying his late […]
Continue ReadingIn May, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, was asked to clarify the statement he made nine years ago about the Fulani and their propensity to carry out maniacal violence against others. Rather than show that he had reflected on his injudicious remark and was ready to disclaim it, he doubled down. According to him, “The […]
Continue ReadingLast week, Thursday, July1, the Senate finally passed the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill. It is a milestone in the history of Nigeria’s legislative affairs. Too many interests had repeatedly scuttled it over the years. According to the auditing and advisory firm, KPMG, previous attempts in 2009, 2012 and 2018 failed “because of factors such as […]
Continue ReadingIn the month of October, 1980, about a month before I turned 19, while living in Calabar, in a newspaper called “Daily Sketch”, I saw an advertisement for a vacancy by Nigeria Airways. It read “See the world and meet people, be a Nigeria Airways Flight Attendant.” I became extremely interested and saw myself travelling […]
Continue ReadingKano, a once proud, international centre of commerce and culture, has been overrun by religious charlatans, zealots and hypocrites. Kano has become the world headquarters of Almajirai and by extension, the centre of excellence for exclusion and downward mobility. No society progresses by truncating human development. No society grows by stifling liberty. When the Kano […]
Continue ReadingWinston Churchill made one of his most famous pronouncements in November 1942 when he declared as follows to the House of Commons: “I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire”. Indeed, Churchill managed to avoid personal responsibility for the loss of any significant imperial […]
Continue ReadingIt was in Hubert Ogunde’s ‘Jayesinmi’ that we last saw witches transforming into cats – black cat, red cat. I never knew witchery and witchcraft have found their way into the curricula of our security academies until the recent Igboho night experience. Media reports said Sunday Igboho had cats as pets and those were victims […]
Continue ReadingWhen a few weeks ago, President Muhammadu Buhari declared that those who seek to overwhelm and undermine the Nigerian state would soon be spoken to in the language that they will understand, this was immediately interpreted to serve as a signal of a declaration of war against the people of the South East because the […]
Continue ReadingOut of the blue last Tuesday, the beleaguered Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) regime, which is desperate for funds but even more desperate for recognition, spirited one Nnamdi Kanu back into Nigeria. Within hours, the so-called leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was standing before a high court judge. Not since Goodluck Jonathan […]
Continue Reading“One hundred thousand naira is now behaving like ten thousand naira; and no one is saying anything about it!” -Anonymous Social Media Blogger Exchange rate is very important particularly for a country like Nigeria, whose currency is not convertible. According to Investopedia, a convertible currency, is any nation’s legal tender that can be easily bought […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been reliably informed that I irritated a number of people in two recent articles, one titled “True Federalism and Other Fallacies” and the other “Restructuring and the 1963 Constitution”. I can understand the frustration of many southerners: they feel trapped in a country with people they would rather not live with. The events surrounding […]
Continue Reading“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a […]
Continue ReadingTwo concessions are necessary before I make my points. One, while advocacy for self-determination is not criminal and is protected by international laws to which Nigeria is a signatory, calls for violence, instigation of violence against security officers, or machinating a plot to violently dissolve sovereign polities are criminal and have no legal protection anywhere […]
Continue ReadingThe claim that Kenya was where Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) was arrested and extradited to Nigeria had better not be true. Kenya? While Nigeria has stubbornly but ostensibly hidden the identity of its accomplice nation in the crude and gangsteric abduction saga, the United Kingdom, whose nationality Kanu holds, […]
Continue ReadingThere are many myths circulated by various ethnic nationalities about the Yoruba people of the Southwest, and a personal experience with a non-Yoruba provoked me to address some of these myths using historical facts. Please bear with me, this is a long read. Myth one: The Yoruba are betrayers A lot of this angst, which […]
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