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Two 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 […]
Continue ReadingIntroduction Federalism is the principle, some would say a conceptual or institutional framework, which defines “the division of authority among national and subnational governments” in a given country (Rozell and Wilcox 2019). Such a country is referred to as a federation, or as operating a federal system. Regardless of whether the subnational governments were priorly […]
Continue ReadingIn a little over two years, the curtain will close on the Buhari presidency. Of the time left, the final one year will be spent in the drama of political succession. In the festival tradition of our politics, little or no governance takes place in the year preceding the exit of the incumbent. It is […]
Continue ReadingRecent events in south-western Nigeria, as I would offer to think, are not ordinary. First, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (also called Sunday Igboho), a private citizen described as “youth leader”, stormed the Fulani community in Igangan, Oyo state, and gave them seven days to vacate the land, failing which he would expel them. The “grassroots mobiliser” […]
Continue ReadingProbably the most irresponsible comment ever made about the Boko Haram tragedy that has been visited on Nigeria is that made by the incumbent Governor of Borno state, Professor Babagana Zulum, whereby he abdicated responsibility for the Boko Haram insurgency and sought to place the blame for the deadly terror group on Christians. His exact […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, please, take note of the title of my column this week. I did not say Nigerians are dying. That is stale news, as well as an understatement. My focus is that the country called Nigeria is dying. I do not know what sort of security briefing President Muhammadu Buhari, regularly or periodically, receives […]
Continue ReadingA number of recent events, at home and abroad, raise issues about the nation’s unending quest for a transformational leader, more so, as the politicians have started traversing the country, even if covertly, in preparation for an election that is still, at least, two years away. Abroad, the most conspicuous of these events is the […]
Continue ReadingCritics of the 1999 transition to civil democratic rule programme make the pertinent point that it amounted to walking blindfolded into the fourth republic because the rules of engagement (constitution) were not made manifest prior to the swearing in of elected officers. This non sequitur, putting the cart before the horse, stemmed from the choice […]
Continue ReadingWe are back in punctuation marks class today. We shall discuss semi colons (;) from what I will call another perspective. Based on my observations of how some confuse it with others like the full stop, comma and colon, I want to establish how NOT to use the semi colon, with the hope that it […]
Continue ReadingThe institution of marriage has undergone many transformations in recent years bringing new perspectives into the traditional concept of marriage as more couples make the decision to live together but separately in their marriage. Ethnically, couples are expected to coexist together especially those who have made the vow of commitment to their relationship and living […]
Continue ReadingAbomination walked naked in Elegbeka community of Ose Local Government Area in Ondo State on November 26, 2020 when some sons of darkness, brandishing guns, killed a god. First, they cocked their guns and kidnapped the god. Moments later, they shot the god, shedding the blue blood of a first-class Ondo traditional ruler, the Olufon […]
Continue ReadingOn November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford University’s Eretgun House that if Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he would leave the United States and cut his green card […]
Continue ReadingAn epidemic of Ohanaeze Presidents General is not the way to go. Who knows, there may even be more such Presidents Generals waiting to pop out of every street corner. So, watch out: One may spring forth right behind your house. The call here is for Igbo stakeholders of all political persuasions to work towards […]
Continue ReadingWhether feigned or genuine, people have been astounded at the invasion of the US Capitol by misguided supporters of President Donald Trump. Nothing about that incident jolted me. I had long expected Trump supporters to go rogue, and I sensed that from observing supporters of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Everything you need […]
Continue ReadingA Tik Tok video has gone viral after a user (name unknown) listed eight countries and named Nigerian married women as the highest cheaters in the world. In the video the man rated eight different countries with the highest rate of women cheating on their husbands. According to the man, the number of women cheating […]
Continue ReadingHave you been wondering why ordinary folks seem to be less affected by COVID-19? Whenever my drivers, house helps and security come back from their leave at home, I always asked them the state of things in their villages. Up till today in the last one year, none has come back with any news of […]
Continue ReadingBeing the text of the 20th Convocation Lecture of the Ekiti State University delivered by Femi Falana SAN on Wednesday, December 16, 2020) Introduction In an age in which crucial debates on the future of Nigeria are led by ethnic warlords, demagogues and clairvoyants from their declared “territories” with captive audiences, it is worthy of […]
Continue ReadingIt was the very day protesters violated Capitol Hill in America over allegation of rigged polls that the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) in Nigeria pronounced death sentence over the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Bishop Hassan Kukah, who has a double jeopardy of being a prominent indigene of Southern Kaduna, a community that has been at […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, these are not the best of times, globally! That statement is even an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging planet earth has brought hell closer home. What we are witnessing is nothing short of apocalypse. Armageddon is here, full blast. In the last couple of weeks, we lost many friends, some famous people, […]
Continue ReadingU.S. President Donald Trump may have lost re-election but he would be escorted out of the White House on Tuesday night with a special prize: Africa’s worst friend in modern times. Not that it matters to Trump one way or the other. We can only hope that after four years of spite, insults and hostilities, […]
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