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From Sunday afternoon till evening, I was harried and harassed with phone calls by some people in the media. Can you please confirm the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari? He came into the country on Thursday, and he hasn’t been seen since then. Information at our disposal says his health has taken a turn […]
Continue ReadingLast Sunday, this column dealt with the question of whether the British royal family can be put together again. The question today is along the same line, just much graver: Can Nigeria be put together again? By the way — and just in case you’re wondering — the column on the British royals was submitted […]
Continue ReadingI am glad that a young, brilliant and deeply courageous freelance journalist by the name of David Hundeyin thoroughly thrashed, disgraced and removed the pants of a shameless ignoramus, bumbling fool and decrepit imbecile called Kabir Bako on Channels Televisions’ ‘Politics Today’ last night. The latter had attempted to defend the indefensible by seeking to […]
Continue ReadingIn one of his numerous macho moves in April last year, the late Chadian President Idris Deby led his troops on an offensive against Boko Haram. Thereafter, he granted self-promoting interviews where he attempted to put down Nigeria and the efforts of our military. “Our troops have died for Lake Chad and the Sahel. From […]
Continue ReadingRecently, the five South-East governors announced the launch of a security outfit codenamed Ebubeagu. Like the use of Amotekun by the South-West governors, the choice of the name “Ebubeagu” generated a controversy over its meaning in English. It was variously interpreted as “the aura of the lion/tiger/leopard.” When Amotekun was launched last year, there were […]
Continue ReadingI got a call. It was not a number that I knew. The caller introduced himself. On hearing the name, I thought the call was to thank me on behalf of his late brother’s wife and children for successfully obtaining the Letters of Administration for the late brother’s estate. The appreciation call would have been […]
Continue ReadingMallam Isa Pantami is no ordinary Nigerian. He is a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Pantami is also no ordinary Minister. He is charged with the sensitive portfolio of Communications and Digital Economy. Before his ministerial appointment, he had headed the very sensitive and delicate position of Director-General of the National Information Technology […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Kano State Hisbah Board confirmed the arrest of eight young ladies and four men for eating in the daytime during Ramadan. This, according to the Hisbah Board Director General, Dr. Aliyu Musa Kibiya, proves conclusively that these young people were not observing the fast. “We will investigate and if they have cogent […]
Continue ReadingAnother lady also reached out to me and her message reads, “Let me just say that I am currently swimming in a pool of regret. Our mother died when I was less than 10 years old and that’s when I stepped into her shoes in the lives of my four younger siblings; three males and […]
Continue ReadingWe did not see moments of national empathy for President Muhammadu Buhari when he fled Nigeria for his routine medical checkup. After all, it was not like in 2016 when the morbid hour threatened, or Yar’Adua 2.0. Nothing startled in our presidential comfort zone. The thing was the president was well. But what of the […]
Continue ReadingThis is a difficult column to write because although scores of people have importuned me to intervene in the controversy regarding Communication and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami’s utterances before he came into government, my wife, who knows Pantami is my friend, pleaded with me to stay out of it. But I would […]
Continue ReadingMost of the politicians whose names have been mentioned in connection with Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential election, either as a hopeful or an aspirant would readily tell you it is too early to talk about the next election. Don’t buy that. They are lying. The race for the next Nigerian elections began immediately the last general […]
Continue ReadingHere we go again: in 2023, whose turn? In Nigeria, nothing excites us like politics. If you want to get our attention, don’t waste your time writing about quality of life, potable water, sanitation, maternal health or out-of-school children. There are more important things that excite us: political intrigues, permutations, elections, all that. I am […]
Continue ReadingThere was an open rally against the entity called Nigeria on the streets of Ibadan on Saturday. The organisers wanted a Yoruba country. That it happened where it happened should worry everyone. The Yoruba believed so much in Nigeria and sacrificed so much to make it live and work. Now, the medicine man no longer […]
Continue ReadingSubhanallah, alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, la ilaha illa Allah! This is my most favourite Islamic chant. I love its rhythm, rhyme and reason. It means, “God is perfect, praise be to Allah, I seek forgiveness from Allah, there’s no other god, except Allah!” Of the 12 Islamic months in the Hijri calendar, Ramadan, the ninth month, is […]
Continue ReadingThe first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his […]
Continue ReadingEven though one was not privy to the discussion held at the Owerri summit of the Southe-East governors, it was not lost on me why Agu (insert your choice of tiger, Lion or Leopard) would become the favoured totem for the regional security outfit. Every serious student of Igbo culture knows too well that there […]
Continue ReadingBetween economists and their enabling politicians, the fate of nations often hangs precariously on a balance. On their own, economists can be a miserable enough bunch in ordinary circumstances. Their professional relevance hangs on the precarious uncertainty that all things may never become equal in real life. Like Delphic oracles, economists keep their relevance and […]
Continue ReadingShaka Momodu again last Friday walked the path of the inflamed mercenary with the verbal ooze he dared to call a journalistic article. Shaka seems troubled on all sides by ghosts and ghouls, which he claims show the evil spirit of others. In reality, these troubling spirits are solely internal to him. He is obsessed […]
Continue ReadingIt was on the floor of the Old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. George Washington and many nobles were seated. Then, Benjamin Franklin stood up from among them filled with conviction that prayer to the Creator was necessary before the beginning of any business of the day. He then […]
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