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President Muhammadu Buhari would have made a bad orchestra conductor. In that line of business, a certain faithfulness to synchrony and harmonious outcome is the secret of success. Even in his primary lifelong career of soldiering, order and uniformity have remained the hallmarks of the best traditions of the military endeavour. His present occupation of […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I’m sure, just like me, you’ve been wondering what could be driving the Federal Government of Nigeria towards pushing the country into perdition and collapse. I’m very convinced that President Muhammadu Buhari has no plans of succeeding in the governance of the country as a whole, or indeed of his beloved Northern part […]
Continue ReadingIt’s difficult not to take in the different Naija characters that one often comes across on blog sites, especially if you are like those of us (silent readers) who also bother with the comment section. There’s the one that seems to go there just to correct people’s grammar. This character hardly contributes to the discourse o but […]
Continue ReadingEvery time the Federal Government of Nigeria takes one step forward, they seem to take another 10 steps backwards! It seems that those in power do not quite understand that fighting insecurity successfully, demands a holistic approach. It goes beyond shooting on sight, those armed with AK 47s in the forests. It goes beyond using […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, we learned from the National Bureau of Statistics that Nigeria’s unemployment rate had officially risen to 33.3 per cent, up from 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of last year. The figure was not entirely surprising, given the scale of regression Nigeria has witnessed in the past five years. Anyone who has […]
Continue ReadingIt’s strange but I actually fell in love with Burna Boy before I even knew his name or what he does for a living. Stranger still is that I was attracted by his promotion of alcohol, which I don’t take. Okay, some of my friends would argue that Star Lager beer doesn’t fall into the […]
Continue ReadingTraditions are fundamental to families and society at large. People who live together without tradition are more likely to live in disunity and chaos. Every marriage also comes with its tradition irrespective of customs, religion or characteristics. Tradition provides the foundation and strengthens the principles of the agreement. Today, some couples no longer believe in […]
Continue Reading“The issue is a very big question because I noticed that they both come from the same state of Kebbi and they may even be related. For me, that is not a very healthy thing because the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the EFCC are supposed to be independent” -Prof. Itse […]
Continue ReadingOut-of-school children constitute security risk in Nigeria.” – Senator Lawan, Senate President, VANGUARD, March 11, p 44. I did not know whether to laugh or cry about that news report. Lawan, Ph.D, well-educated in any country on earth, and a leader in the North for some time, is suddenly discovering, like other Northerners, what ordinary commonsense should […]
Continue ReadingThe North has become a region of endless funerals and perpetual bereavement. Bandits in the North have become a state. They impose fines and taxes, send notices, control spaces, determine life and death and operate without challenge.” Senator Shehu Sani of Kaduna State, March 2020, I wish that historical damn fool called Lord Lugard and […]
Continue ReadingIn the recent past, a short video clip has gone viral titled: Who handed over Nigeria to the Fulani? I watched the video and listened to its audio. Interestingly, the voice is sounding like that of an “Englishman”. I was taken aback because I could not understand the motive of the anonymous producer and presenter […]
Continue ReadingWhen a lady wrote me some time back, she narrated her experiences at the hands of an in-law thus, “I joined this family a little over 16 years ago and nothing seems to be out of place in her character. Then, I was freshly out of an abusive marriage with a toddler in tow but […]
Continue ReadingWhenever the history of the eventual collapse of this country is written Nigeria’s commercial/mercenary politicians will surely take a lion share of the blame. It is just unimaginable that any crop of human beings anywhere on earth could be as insensitive, as unfeeling, as wrongheaded, as selfish and self-centred as the politicians who the ordinary […]
Continue ReadingOn March 2, 2021, Peoples Gazette, the gutsy online newspaper that has now become famous for meticulously evidence-based muckraking, reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is now AGF Abubakar Malami’s dutiful poodle, requested the Code of Conduct Bureau to furnish it with former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu’s asset declaration forms possibly preparatory […]
Continue ReadingThis is a 2019 piece which is repeated in the light of the events of the last one week – another mass kidnapping, fuel price hike and its denials; NSA’s bombshell and the attempt to help him deny what he said. It was by chance that I stumbled on Gambia TV a few days back […]
Continue ReadingBubba Malam hails from Katsina State. It is the home state of Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Malam calls himself Hausa-Fulani because his father is Hausa, and his mother is Fulani. Recently, Malam shared with his friends on social media his thoughts about Nigeria’s President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, and his […]
Continue ReadingIn July 2017, the tiny land locked but oil and gas rich kingdom of Qatar fell out with its Arab neighbours. It was charged with supporting terrorism! What made news was not just that Arab states ganged up to accuse their Qatari kinsfolk of a familiar neighbourhood pastime. The neighbours went ahead to clamp an […]
Continue ReadingIt would appear setting up state police in Nigeria is now a matter of “when” – not “if”. What started as a campaign championed solely by south-west political and opinion leaders at the dawn of this democracy has gone on to win more disciples nationwide. Support is coming from unlikely quarters in the north, with […]
Continue ReadingHappy International Women’s Day to all of us women! In just the first quarter of 2021, we had Senator Kamala Harris sworn in as not just the first female, but the first African American and Asian American Vice President of the United States of America, and our own Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the first female […]
Continue ReadingThere are words that have been given different meanings in Nigeria. Sometimes, the meaning given to these words is even the opposite of their original meaning. Let us look at 10 of these words. fatal WRONG: I witnessed a fatal accident this morning in which the vehicles were damaged beyond repair; but surprisingly, no life […]
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