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Buhari’s aura has dimmed. Our lion looks castrated. Once tall, rigid, and fearless. He is now slow and timid. The lion we had run to for protection now watches wild goats eat palm fronds on our head. Even with the fangs of the presidency, our bold lion now lets hyenas feast on our cubs. When […]
Continue ReadingThe name, Eve, is not a derivative of the word, evil, though both sound alliteratively similar. It’s a name native to Hebrew, adopted by Latin as Eva, and accommodated by English as Eve. In Hebrew, Eve means living. But religious male chauvinists are wont to disagree with this meaning and insist that Eve means the […]
Continue ReadingThe other day, my 15-year-old son — a scholastic chess award winner — drew my attention to an even younger Nigerian chess phenom in the US. The video reminded me to do what I have been putting off for quite some time — a column on why the Nigeria brand remains priceless to many, even […]
Continue ReadingOn the eve of the 2015 presidential election, this reporter had cause to write a dying minute column in this newspaper entitled: “A Call at Midnight”. It was a warning on the clear and present calamity awaiting the nation if the Jonathan administration mismanaged the election and its eventual outcome. At that point, there was […]
Continue ReadingI lost a loved one recently and once again, the lessons from the experience came flooding. The first lesson is a reminder to ALWAYS do what needs to be done immediately it comes to mind because there’s no guarantee the opportunity will come again. This implies to every aspect of our lives. Whenever an issue […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, let me say very proudly that I attended an institution I believe to be one of the best Universities in the world from 1978-82. It is certainly the best University in Nigeria, whatever anybody else may say. The University was then known as the University of Ife, or by its moniker Great Ife. […]
Continue Reading“If we get the opportunity, we will make the Nigerian military capable again because if we could go through ECOMOG forces to stabilize troubled zones and go to Darfur and to other places of the world to perform, why can’t we perform at home when our national sovereignty is being threatened”….. Buhari in December 2014 […]
Continue ReadingThe most foolish thing I have read this year is the utterly ridiculous defence of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, by the Buhari Presidency. That statement, by Garba Shehu, the ‘Any Government In Power’ former spokesman to a Peoples Democratic Party government, is only bested in its stupidity, by the […]
Continue ReadingIn March this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) devised a ‘Naira 4 Dollar’ scheme to make remittances through formal bank channels more convenient for our nationals in the Diaspora. With many countries now tapping into remittances from their Diaspora populations to increase inflow and shore up their national economies, it is a smart […]
Continue ReadingThe United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) is one of America’s 11 major military bases dotted around the globe for the purpose of protecting and defending its national security interests, and those of its allies. America, being the leading Western military superpower, has been bearing the brunt of Western security since the end of WWII. The […]
Continue ReadingGLO With Pride! I decided to start my piece today on a positive note, since this administration believes that many of us, especially the media, thrive on harping only on the negatives in Nigeria. Last week, I mentioned the fact that many foreigners except the Chinese, are divesting and leaving Nigeria. This is true, but, […]
Continue ReadingFr Ejike Mbaka, Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu attracts controversy the way flies are attracted to dung. He is completely unfazed about it. He comes across as a priest who does not mind what Pope Francis once referred to as “the sin of scandal”. Last week, Fr. Mbaka stirred the hornet’s again when […]
Continue ReadingMr. President Sir. Why has your government abandoned the Kaduna College of Forestry kidnapped students, leaving their parents traumatised, and scampering everywhere, when Nigeria has an army and the primary responsibility of government is to provide security for life and property? Is that what governments do? I have in mind here, how the U. S came […]
Continue ReadingBetween 1999 and 2007 (eight years), five Senate presidents emerged from the five South-East states: one from each of the states. It is a point used to ridicule the South-East geopolitical zone as incapable of working as one. But those who make that argument miss the underlying point in that scenario. Between 2007 and 2019, […]
Continue ReadingVulture means Igún in Yoruba. At the very beginning of time, he was the priest of the earth. The priest was also earth’s doctor. It happened that Olófin, the king in Ile-Ife that time, had his life in total disarray – a life broken like calabash and rent like cloth (ayé e rè fó bí […]
Continue ReadingFrustration and anxiety have driven major opinion leaders to a dead end of options on our worsening insecurity. President Buhari is being asked to literally outsource Nigeria’s internal security operations to some foreign power. Wole Soyinka, ever the incurable patriot, has pointedly suggested that the worsening security situation leaves Buhari no better option than to […]
Continue ReadingDear President Muhammadu Buhari, what a hell of a week it was! Again, undergraduates kidnapped in Kaduna were slain while the ransom was still being negotiated. More bloodbaths in Zamfara claimed over 100 lives. Over 50 villages were deserted in Niger after attacks by Boko Haram, who cheekily hoisted their dark flag in one of […]
Continue ReadingMy experience watching an episode of the ‘Nigerian Idol’ talent show, last week, inspired this lesson. While one of the judges was commenting on the performance of a contestant (the budding singer gave his name as Benjamin) he said: You should have sang another song. A word in the clause stung my ears. You should […]
Continue ReadingWithout a scintilla of doubt, not all who now know about him have heard the names ALANA (PATH FINDER) Professor (Senator) Banji Akintoye before he became the YORUBA LEADER on Thursday, 22 August 2019, despite his becoming a Professor at the prestigious University of Ife, Ile – Ife, way back 1974, a foremost Awoist and […]
Continue ReadingDid Itsekiri, Delta State-born Senator representing Lagos in Nigeria’s National Assembly, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, nee Ikusebiala – interpreted, meaning, “death’s most fitting analogy is a sleep” – wife of the Asiwaju of Lagos, All Progressives Congress (APC’s) National Leader and ex-Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, know the implication of stirring the hornet’s nest? That […]
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