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Last Thursday, a Judge of the Delta State High Court released a press statement claiming that Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) tests conducted on the three children from his first marriage (to a woman from whom he is now divorced) reveal that he is not their biological father. In the statement, he offered details as to how […]
Continue ReadingThe mayhem we see, almost everyday now, of killings and maiming of people of Northern extraction, including, especially, the Fulani, in some other parts of the country, is totally unacceptable. There is clearly a nefarious plan by the enemies of this potentially great country to initiate a violent crisis that may lead to its destruction. […]
Continue ReadingMany Nigerians were understandably shocked, surprised, if not alarmed last week, when they suddenly heard the news that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari had finally decided to relieve the service chiefs appointed in 2015 of their appointments. The popular response was couched in such phrases as “oh… at last… finally”, “better late than never” […]
Continue ReadingA worrisome update of a friend on the social media made me reach out to her via inbox. It turned out that she was battling potentially terminal health challenges. In the update, she made a vague reference to her battles and then asked friends to keep her in their prayers. I also reached out to […]
Continue ReadingHow can a man fight very difficult life battles, vanquish them all, be a household name in the world as a result of his handsome laurels in business and then, all of a sudden, get picked up effortlessly on the bed by women, as they do snails in farm furrows? This is the question on […]
Continue ReadingThe quit notice served on the Fulani community in Igangan, Oyo state, by a non-state actor, Chief Sunday Igboho, is a timely reminder that Nigeria is at the risk of becoming a failed state. In my previous article, I argued that no private individual should have such powers in a modern nation-state. But with unending […]
Continue ReadingIntroduction The current security crisis in the South-Western part of Nigeria is one of the many symptoms of national malaise, which, although not peculiar to the region, has manifested in various forms, including murders, kidnapping, highway robberies, rape incidents, assault, violence and intimidation, criminal trespass, crop destruction, and many other major and minor violent acts. […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I know how easy it is for men and women in politics, particularly those in the hallowed corridors of power, to readily dismiss important warnings by well-meaning citizens as rantings of enemies of government, but I’m the last person anyone could ever label as such. Without being immodest, my credentials as a patriotic […]
Continue ReadingIn my discussions with couples and study of marriage, I have found out that there are some fundamental things that have changed in today’s marriage. Many seem unaware of these changes and have not adjusted to them, thereby leading to more unhappiness and divorces. Some decades ago (in the days of our grandfathers and even […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Toyin Falola noted in a recent essay entitled, “Is the diaspora now about rubbishing those at home?” that universities in the cultural West would not grant faculty positions to people holding Nigerian university doctorates, unless they demonstrate exceptional talents. To support his point, I know a few people from Nigeria who had to do […]
Continue ReadingI initially resisted responding to Professor Toyin Falola’s trending essay titled “IS THE DIASPORA NOW ABOUT RUBBISHING THOSE AT HOME?”— which he wrote partly in response to the guest column I invited Professor Moses Ochonu to write— for three reasons. One, the article was so atypically self-aggrandizing that I thought the Professor Falola I’ve known since 2004 couldn’t […]
Continue ReadingI am so sad as I write this. I never knew that things will become so bad. Immigrant scholars in the US have now become like the Europeans in 19th century Africa, the colonizers who saw nothing good about the continent. This is now the intellectual stuff on the Internet. I have read five in […]
Continue ReadingLast Monday, the seemingly intractable crisis between Fulani herdsmen and South-West inhabitants got some breakthrough when the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria gave in to the demands of governors. According to reports, following a meeting with some members of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, the National President of MACBAN, Alhaji Muhammadu Kiruwa, directed Fulani […]
Continue ReadingThe session started with a powerful prayer offered by President Olusegun Obasanjo on the benevolence of God for sparing our lives. This was 8th February 2001 when the THISDAY Board of Editors and top management were at the Villa to thank the president for his intervention following our survival in a plane crash in Maiduguri […]
Continue ReadingIt’s only those who are too daft to read societies at anomic drift that would not be able to decode that Nigeria as presently constituted is nearing its last days the way Yugoslavia, USSR and other once-upon-a-time countries exhausted their possibilities and became history. If Nigeria fails to restructure as has been strongly canvassed and […]
Continue ReadingIn the past week, in the South Western part of Nigeria, we have been treated to stories of conflicts in Ondo and Oyo States between herdsmen, identified as Fulani, and the Yoruba owners of indigenous communities. In Ondo State, the issue at stake is the conversion of the state’s forest reserves into a criminal space […]
Continue ReadingEven if you feed on tortoise’s head, you should weep reading this young man’s tribute to his dad who was recently murdered by Fulani herdsmen on his farm: “I remember one of our last conversations, I told you I had lost every hope in Nigeria and how I don’t see it becoming better in another […]
Continue ReadingIt was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN. Oni had in the main election and the election petition tribunal that followed been declared winner of the gubernatorial contest. Our party, […]
Continue ReadingBecome a GOOD citizen of the world. Wherever you find yourself, give the best of yourself there. Treat your host community well and always be humane to people. Keep in mind that “where you come from” may not always have your back as “where you are.” Don’t be the reason others are paying for a […]
Continue ReadingTwo of Yorubaland’s most prized states’ helmsmen – Governors Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and Seyi Makinde – have made very strong but seemingly diametrically opposed positions on the security of their people, making it the most talked about issue in the nation today. In recent time, their Ondo and Oyo States have become hotbeds of the scalding […]
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