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People often assume the Yoruba are so successful as an ethnic nationality due to their thirst for education, and how it has penetrated down even amongst their remotest rural communities. But study them. Their culture of respect opens doors for them that even education cannot open. Diplomacy gives them supremacy. And their culture is often […]
Continue ReadingEight years old I was when the Nigeria Civil War broke out in 1967. Championing that crusade on one side was Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu from the Biafra land. Yakubu Gowon who also doubled as the Head of State was commanding for the Nigerian side. I remember the deep trenches built in every neighbourhood in my […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I don’t know about you, but the week started for me on a normal note. I had looked forward to my routine life of activities. Little did I envisage the big news ahead. Government backed, government style gangsterism, no less, descended on us without warning. No journalist could have anticipated such multiple events […]
Continue ReadingDear Compatriots, I send you greetings from the land of the rising sun. As I pen this piece, I am keenly aware that many sane voices from across our geo-political and cultural divides have been drowned in a cacophony of noise, innuendos, conspiracy theories and unprintable insults. I am sure you will agree with me […]
Continue ReadingAre Nigerian rulers (not leaders) as dumb as some of us think? No! In the last few months, I have wrestled with a lot of questions on how Nigeria’s ruling elite thinks and acts. I have wondered if they are smart or just plain stupid. I haven’t thought of them as being clever, until I […]
Continue ReadingWatching Attorney-General of the Federation and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, slogging through a written speech to announce the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, I got the impression that this was a triumphalist moment for him and the regime he fronted. The Philistines have finally bagged Samson, and you […]
Continue ReadingAfter a four-year interregnum, the trial of the ‘supreme leader’ of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu resumed on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja. First arraigned on 14th October, 2015 before he eventually secured bail and fled the country, Kanu had been slammed with an 11-count charge bordering […]
Continue Reading“Where have you been, you this guy?” “Omo, I no go deceive you. I just meet this girl wey dey turn my head. Shey you know, I no go deceive you. You don’t need to die to discover Heaven. Heaven is right here on earth, except you have not been lucky to discover it. This […]
Continue ReadingAt the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 19th century England, textile workers (referred to as Luddites) protested mechanisation because they feared machines would replace the jobs they were doing by hand. In their futile attempt at stopping the Industrial Revolution, they burnt factories, destroyed machines and killed factory owners who purchased machines to replace […]
Continue ReadingNigerian youths should be applauded for calling off the nationwide protest previously planned on June 12 to demand the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office. The bloodthirsty dictator could have exploited the protest to murder more citizens. These helpless youths have suffered enough for the sins of their heartless leaders. Yet, the goal of […]
Continue ReadingFunny how we hardly reach any cross-ethnic consensus in this country, but the campaign for a return to the 1963 Constitution — increasingly becoming the backbone of the “restructuring” agenda — seems popular in southern Nigeria and Benue state. The core argument is that we need to return to regionalism: every region should control its […]
Continue ReadingOur Minister of Agriculture is Alhaji Muhammad Nanono from Kano State. The Minister of State for that ministry is Alhaji Mustapha Baba Shehuri from Borno State. You are wondering why the two of them come from the far north? Where else do you have farmers in Nigeria except in the North East and the North West? […]
Continue ReadingI was privileged to read Dele Momodu’s column, the Pendulum, of Saturday, 19 June 2021, to which he gave the title, “My close encounters with Governor Wike”. Over the years, I have painstakingly followed this incisive column, but this is one occasion when I beg to differ with his assertions for reasons you will see […]
Continue ReadingThe Senate President Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, National Assembly 3 Arms Zone, Abuja Federal Capital Territory ATTENTION: The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Assembly Three Arms Zone, Federal Capital Territory Abuja Dear Distinguished Senator, Petititon Opposing President Buhari’s Appointment of Lauretta Onochie As a National Commissioner […]
Continue Reading“I predict that every multi-lingual or multi-national country with a unitary constitution must either eventually have a federal constitution based on the principles which I have enunciated, or disintegrate, or be perennially afflicted with disharmony and instability” – Obafemi Awolowo The fundamental political argument of Nigeria today boils down to the contention between the political […]
Continue ReadingConstitutional amendment, or the redrawing of a new constitution is certainly not a new phenomenon. The debate as to whether our 1999 Constitution should be completely jettisoned for a new one, or whether it should simply be amended, has been ongoing for a while now. Last week, I read with keen interest, the opinions of […]
Continue ReadingBy the time you watched Information minister Lai Mohammed’s fume in the National Assembly on Tuesday where he had gone to defend the Twitter ban, you would conclude that these people neither have solutions to Nigeria’s problems nor the imagination to conjure any. Mohammed expectedly regurgitated his ear-grating tale about the evils of social media, […]
Continue ReadingAll through history, even with the advent of modernism, despots who hate the power of free speech always have their own version of repressive ancient monarchies’ abenilori – ones entrusted with the task of beheading opponents. While Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe had his in Minister of Information and Publicity, Jonathan Nathaniel Mlevu Moyo, President […]
Continue ReadingAs I have often argued on this page, the connecting thread for the variants of violence we are witnessing across Nigeria is the loss of what Max Weber described as “the legitimate use of physical force” to criminal cartels. And until we muster the capacity to effectively confront those who trouble the peace of our […]
Continue ReadingWhen a political leader becomes decidedly obstinate in nature, journalists and observers often run out of the right superlatives to describe his daily action. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), reflects this sentiment adequately well. The Nigerian population and the Presidency currently live in a parallel universe, which spells trouble of a magnitude no […]
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