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In sharing her experiences with me, the lady told of how their parents died young and she began early in life to play the mother hen to her younger brothers. Said she put herself through a lot to train them in school. She added, “Although, I am blessed with material success, one is not lucky […]
Continue ReadingIf a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Hiding behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the wolf. – Pope St. Gregory the Great (540–604 AD) Easter Sunday is here again. But first, let us step back […]
Continue ReadingHappy Easter Everyone. It is our prayer that the same way Jesus rose from the dead, every good thing concerning Nigeria which hitherto has been dead, will also rise. Amen. Three incidents that transpired last week, caught my attention. Garba Shehu and the President’s Medical Tourism I watched an interview of Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu […]
Continue ReadingIronies litter the landscape. Newspapers chose to emphasize the back of the president as he climbed aboard the presidential jet to go for another medical check-up abroad. Many are still pondering if the meaning was desired in the symbolism of turning the back at a distraught people battling an inchoate economy and ever-present threat to […]
Continue ReadingA lot has been written and said about Nigeria@60 since the beginning of the annual October 1 independence celebrations, last year, and quite rightly so. For the historian, 60 years is like a fortnight in the trajectory of any nation, but for the political observer, 60 is a milestone in the evolution of a nation. The quiet […]
Continue ReadingI would never have believed that a day would come when a Nigerian judge would engage in street fighting no matter the level of provocation. It was for this reason that I initially thought the video showing a suit-wearing fellow, referred to as a certain powerful judge kicking and slapping a security guard at the […]
Continue ReadingDanladi Umar, the notoriously vain and sickeningly skin-bleached chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, was caught on camera on March 29 physically assaulting a security guard identified as 22-year-old Clement Sargwak. Umar flew into a tempestuous rage because Sargwak besought him to not park his car at a spot that obstructed traffic in Abuja’s Banex […]
Continue ReadingThe President Is A Sick Man is the title of a book written by Matthew Algeo, a chronology of the medical travails of President Grover Cleveland, lawyer, statesman and one of the most famous public speakers of his time. He was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, from 1885 to 1889 and […]
Continue ReadingI laughed upon remembering Chief Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo alias 4:30, and a proverb came to mind: “If death are strike dead the slow-motion chameleon with reckless abandon, why shall it not quench the jumpy-jumpy frog with instant automatic alacrity? Tell me!” Chief Zebrudaya, the patriarch of Nigeria’s funniest English sitcom, New Masquerade, didn’t vocalise the […]
Continue ReadingDissonance. Is that the right word to describe the contradiction between word and action? Like the man putting up a “No Smoking” sign while a slowly burning stick of cigarette is trapped between his lips? There are too many things I cannot understand about my country. They look so simple, so commonsensical and so doable […]
Continue ReadingVice President Yemi Osinbajo is a man of subdued political symbolism and a compact admixture of values. It comes across mostly in his costume which is, in some ways, emblematic of his ambiguous adventure in the political arena. On an average day, he is most likely to show up in a darkish variant of a […]
Continue ReadingFrom cattle rustling to ‘human rustling’, all seem to be fair game to the bandits disguised in the garb of cattle rearers now testing the skills and will of the new chiefs of our armed services. The spate of killings, abduction of students and the general state of insecurity in our country are so grim […]
Continue ReadingLast week, I received a call from the Governor’s Office in Awka, Anambra State that the condolence letter of Governor Willie Obiano on our father’s death was ready for collection. I decided to send my 18-year-old nephew to go from Nnewi to Awka, a distance of about 33 kilometres, to collect the letter. It was […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Bola Tinubu, commended Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, for his efforts in strengthening anti-corruption institutions. The efforts, of course, were tied to the office building of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Ganduje renovated. Tinubu went on to state that “in ensuring Nigeria becomes a […]
Continue Reading“What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections. So they recruited the youth and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force. “After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns; the […]
Continue ReadingStatesman and late President of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, Leopold Sedar Senghor, through his philosophy of negritude, believed that Africa and its culture had manifest contributions they can make to European thought. Same for Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana who fought vigorously to build an ideology he labeled “a New Africa, independent and absolutely free […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the 5th December 2020 Imo North Senatorial by-election to replace the late Benjamin Uwajumogu, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared victory in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) without proclaiming a winner. This was due to a multiplicity of cases by APC members claming to be the party’s candidate and the various […]
Continue ReadingLast week, a friend of mine, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, asked me what I thought was the reason why Nigerians run for elective office/struggle to be part of Government? My response was that, most of them do so because of the nomenclature and perquisites that go with the various offices – so that they […]
Continue Reading‘A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a moulder of consensus’ – Martin Luther King Jnr. ‘The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.’ – Tony Blair Earlier in the week, someone sent me a video of a news item about the ministers and senior government […]
Continue ReadingThe roads leading to the two Nigerian ports in Lagos have been for many years an abiding source of heartache and nightmare. Businesses have had to relocate from that part of the city for that very reason. Residents tell horrible stories of traffic gridlock, mental health stress and the destruction of a neighbourhood that used […]
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