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It is a platitude to characterise the year 2020 as significantly abnormal. In this characterisation, Nigeria and the United States of America are in a class by themselves. For the latter, keeping bad company is the exception but it is mostly the rule for the former. This is the difference that one individual can make […]
Continue ReadingLast week Thursday, a group of politicians converged at the presentation of a book about former President Goodluck Jonathan. While there was nothing quite out of the ordinary about the gathering, there was still an interesting moment where the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, went on a self-justificatory spree to explain why he removed the […]
Continue ReadingAn emergency family meeting was called to apprise all eight people in the house of our health circumstance and the precautions we had to take. The moment I announced a two-week quarantine and treatment, the house keeper who had been looking forward to travelling home to Akwa Ibom State at Christmas to bury his father […]
Continue ReadingOne of the major roadblocks to financial independence is to depend on an income that is uncertain. Anything with the option of one creates fear and anxiety and depending on one source of income is the cause for financial stress. Thus, when you want to be free from financial stress, one of the things you […]
Continue ReadingThe Kidnap of 344 (?) boys from their school in Kankara, Katsina State highlights the criminal activities of bandits through armed robbery, kidnapping, mass slaughter, rape and cattle rustling. Basically, bandits have colonised Danmusa, Dandume, Kankara, Batsari, Sabuwa, and Jibia local governments of the State. Few, if any, federal officer, political office holder or academic […]
Continue Reading“If individuals can take from a common pot, regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take, will be taken by someone else” – John Stossel In 1998, […]
Continue ReadingNothing lasts forever. Except true love as rhapsodised by the poets. Life has taught me that whatever you have to do, do it now and do it with all your might. You must strike while the iron is hot. Because you might never pass through this road again. Today, we are here and tomorrow, we […]
Continue ReadingBecause there’s absolutely nothing inspiring about the most popular Buhari that I know, I can’t name my son Buhari. Buhari bawo? Naming my son Buhari would be an unforgivable sin against the infant. But, can you, my reader, name your own son Buhari? Why, if yes, and why not, if no? Naming my son Buhari would […]
Continue ReadingWhat could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that, “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race […]
Continue ReadingBiologically, a woman’s fertility declines in her 30s, but thanks to egg freezing, the ticking biological clock can be quietened. Egg freezing has become increasingly popular among women aged 21- 40. Some women opt for the procedure because they are not ready to have a baby and wish to preserve their fertility. Others are undergoing […]
Continue ReadingThe president is in Katsina state, he is not on leave, yet the Federal Government sent a delegation from Abuja on Sunday to ‘commiserate’ with the Katsina State government. I do not know if you also find that very awkward. Is that how it is done? What is happening? I know there are persons in […]
Continue ReadingApprehension. Relief. Apprehension again. My emotions went full cycle in seven days. The abduction of 344 students of Government Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state, had whipped up a frightened feeling of déjà vu in me. The Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014 readily came to mind. More so, I feared that these boys could be turned […]
Continue ReadingWhen it emerged on Thursday that the hundreds of schoolboys that were abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, were released, I was so relieved that I gave the Buhari regime an unusual pat in the back in my social media updates. “The release of the #KankaraBoys—I don’t care at what cost—is one of the […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, it is difficult to ignore the helplessness and hopelessness which hapless Nigerians have suffered since the year of our Lord 2015, when our presumed Messiah descended upon our section of this planet. Before then, Nigerians had reasoned that there was only one saint standing and he is no other than Major General Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingMuch has been made about comments by former Singaporean Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, about his very brief encounter with Nigeria’s first republic minister of finance, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. Mr Yew had said: “Raja and I were seated opposite a hefty Nigerian, Festus, their finance minister. The conversation is still fresh in my mind. He […]
Continue ReadingChief Audu Ogbeh, immediate past minister of agriculture and chairman, ACF, was recently quoted as saying that politics is the only industry in Northern Nigeria. His statement intrigues me for two reasons. One, I have often wondered why the north which has ruled the country longer than all the other regions put together is in […]
Continue Reading‘The Kankara abduction was so belligerently orchestrated that it happened the day Mr President arrived Katsina State on a private visit… It smites the face of the Commander-In-Chief and further proves what we once said that the bandits rule in many communities and do as they wish with impunity”. -Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad […]
Continue ReadingMurder is as old as mankind. Cain, because of a jealous rage, killed his brother Abel, according to the book of Genesis in the Bible. In exact similitude, Qabil and Habil, believed by Moslems to have been the first two sons of Adam and Eve, just like Cain and Abel in the Bible, also suffered […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Samuel Ortom of Benue State is one leader in Nigeria now, who speaks truth to power. It is he who dares to take on any challenge with a victorious mindset. And he has been successful. It is Ortom who has awoken the consciousness of Nigerians to the menace of insecurity by the Fulani herdsmen […]
Continue ReadingOn Friday, hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted in Kankara, a community in Katsina State. As of the time of writing this, more than 300 of those schoolchildren were still reportedly missing. This shameful development is a recrudescence of the 2014 Chibok girls’ abduction in the same Borno State. About 125 of those girls have yet […]
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