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When you listen to Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmed Lawan’s skewed submission on Southern governors’ meeting in Asaba, Delta State last week, you will realise that people in high places too are not immune from marketplace waffles. Miniature logic can proceed from the minds of huge, prarchute-like babanriga wearers after all. More importantly, from the tragic […]
Continue ReadingIn 1842, Thomas Babington Macauly wrote my favourite poem titled, “Horatius at the Bridge, Lays of Ancient Rome”, and made a point that we can all learn from in Nigeria today. He wrote: “Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And […]
Continue ReadingIn between 2015 and 2021 are the years of the locust when hope was on his shoulder, law wisdom in his cerebrum, gospel on his lips but Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, law professor, politician, and pastor, crash-landed like Humpty Dumpty under the weight of lawlessness. I sincerely sympathise with the General Overseer, The Redeemed […]
Continue ReadingUnlike the rest of us who are shivering about the prevalent insecurity and uncertainty over the future of the country, I doubt that President Buhari and his inner core of strategists have cause to lose much sleep. They have no cause to share our fears. They have always known something that we did not. The […]
Continue ReadingIf you are a keen observer of Nigerian politics, or should I say politicking, you must have noticed many unusual things about the meeting of the 17 southern governors in Asaba, Delta state, on Tuesday. In the first place, that the southern governors met at all — and, mind you, every single governor was present; […]
Continue ReadingThe only time to start living your best life is NOW. Not later or when you feel you will be ready. As you work hard, normalise savouring the fruits of your labour and helping others when they need it most. My deceased relation denied himself a lot to “gather enough.’’ But at the end of […]
Continue ReadingThe New York Times report of March 13, 1976 put the story of Nigeria’s perennial human sacrifices by the bloodthirsty grove of coup-plotting most startlingly. The day before, newly appointed Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier Musa Yar’Adua, had announced that former Defense Minister, Major General Iliya D. Bisalla and 29 others, had been executed by the seaside suburb of Victoria […]
Continue Reading“As you rightly put it, Buhari has helped to expose the fault lines we have ignored and may unwittingly help the process of the nations that make up this hapless country to emerge. Britain is one of the most federal countries in the world, but they have modelled a system that allows them to put […]
Continue ReadingIn a recent characteristic demonstration of miscue and confusion within the presidency, (which sounded more like a confession of helplessness in articulating a plausible exit strategy for the Muhammadu Buhari presidency), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo unloaded on the Nigerian elite for keeping mute and fiddling while Nigeria literally burns. He lamented: “If the political elite […]
Continue Reading“In an upcoming foreign policy piece, Dr Robert Rotberg and I will argue that Nigeria is a failed state.” That is a 6 May, 2021 tweet from John Campbell, a former United States Ambassador to Nigeria. It should worry all who know that this came from Campbell, author of ‘Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink’ published […]
Continue ReadingFor the second time within a month, Bishop David Oyedepo preached against COVID-19 vaccines in his church. He said he would not take the vaccine, and he warned people against taking it too. On Sunday, at his church 40th anniversary, he again cautioned his congregation not to take the vaccine and that nobody can enforce […]
Continue ReadingSo much had been said about the above, and by now we know that they can no longer be kept under the hat. I have decided to limit my analysis to 3 federating States in Nigeria, Lagos, Kano and Oyo. Let’s collocate the population figures. According to the 2006 federal ‘population allocation’: LAGOS: 9,013,534. KANO: […]
Continue Reading“Now I understand why he called it Microsoft”- An African American Lady Someone told me this interesting story a few years back which I cannot confirm its veracity. It was several decades ago that Bill Gates met this young beautiful African American and immediately fell in love with her. They speak for few moments and […]
Continue ReadingLast Sunday, the charismatic ‘House on the Rock’ Pastor, Paul Adefarasin told his congregation that no country has survived two civil wars. He warned that if the current situation degenerates, nobody can foretell the consequences. After calling on the government and other stakeholders to come together to address the challenge, Adefarasin then added a controversial […]
Continue ReadingThe godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 2015 led the South-West into an alliance with the North to birth the All Progressive Alliance (APC). His decision, evidently, was informed by the expectation that the two geopolitical regions will share power, invariably to the exclusion of the Eastern bloc. And ultimately that he, […]
Continue ReadingThe Judge and his N10 million Loan Two weeks ago, I was talking to a friend of mine – a Judge, and I felt so embarrassed and ashamed of Nigeria. He told me that he had applied to the Bank where his salary is domiciled for a N10 million loan a few years ago, to […]
Continue Reading“Bros, how country?” “Omo, we live in perilous times. Ilu le. Country bad.” “I agree with you absolutely. It has never been this bad in peace times” “You think Nigeria is at peace? If you call this peace time, then what exactly does war look like? For me, the country is at war already. Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingSince independence the unity of Nigeria has hardly ever been taken for granted. This topic is being revisited here because it is even dangerous to have false assumptions today about a united Nigeria under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari. The basis of unity in the country is being called to question in virtually every […]
Continue ReadingAmong all Nigerian civilian presidents and military heads of state, there is something incomprehensible and inexplicable about the current President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Other presidents seemed to be doing something about turning Nigeria around or solving some specific problems. Most of them might not have got the results the masses expected, but one […]
Continue ReadingNigeria appears to have turned the corner and her fate no longer rests with those protecting their oil wells or those nostalgic about their Civil War scars or even those hallucinating about 2023. Truth be told, these same people – those bent on protecting their advantage as well as those sentimental about the so-called non-negotiability […]
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