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On Saturday November 7, 2020, I had the privilege of presenting a keynote address at Umuahia, Abia State on the occasion of the 2020 Diocesan Youth Day Celebration, organised by the Catholic Youth Organisation Of Nigeria. I crave your indulgence to share the speech with you today. I can only add that given the situation […]
Continue ReadingMarriage is the foundation of the civil society and no part of the laws and institutions of a country can be of more vital importance to its subject than those which regulate the manner, and condition of forming, and if necessary of dissolving the marriage contract. – Lord Westbury in Shaw v Gould The growth and […]
Continue ReadingI hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Nigeria is broke. This use to be said in whispers. But no more. It is now a case of ‘go tell it on the mountains’! Whereas, in the last few months it was opposition politicians telling it, now, no less an institution but the Central […]
Continue ReadingIn a new move, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) last Monday installed a committee to sell off all assets recovered by the Federal Government. The idea would be straightforward, but there are screaming problems. First, the committee starts at a whopping meat market of 22 persons. Second, it comprises a multiplicity of government […]
Continue ReadingAny hopes that we are going to quickly move on from the tragic #EndSARS protests and enter into the phase of reconstruction and rehabilitation are disappearing by the day as the federal government closes in on the promoters and supporters of the mass action. A lawyer who actively supported the protests was barred from travelling […]
Continue ReadingWith the #EndSARS protests and the ensuing unfortunate destruction, the looting and the raiding of warehouses housing Covid-19 palliatives and other food items, it has become obvious that the second of a cluster of ticking time bombs had detonated. That time bomb is youth unemployment and poverty resulting from the failure of successive governments at […]
Continue ReadingThis season, I mean the Covid-19 pandemic season, has been emotionally draining for me, as it is probably the case with many others. I started out trivialising its onset and laughed at the Asians who, before any other demographic, cultivated the culture of wearing masks in the city of Oxford. Considering the headstart of China […]
Continue ReadingIn the days since the Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden, was projected the winner of the 2020 presidential election, some of those who have been shamefaced are the American evangelical preachers that prophesied his victory. These preachers evidently did not learn from the 2016 experience of Pastor Temitope Joshua of the Synagogue Church of all […]
Continue ReadingInitial election returns seemed to be going Donald Trump’s way until absentee ballots were being counted. And nobody was sure how he would respond to the change of fortune that put his vote tally behind that of former Vice President Joe Biden in key battleground states. So, when the president scheduled a press conference for […]
Continue ReadingDays after Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and Nigeria’s shining star on the business horizon, clocked 60, the encomiums trailing that event are far from dissipating for all the good reasons. From Sokoto to Senegal and from Cameroun to Zambia, the ovations keep pouring in for Nigeria’s greatest business ambassador. The trail of ovations and […]
Continue Reading“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States; that is to say, they will owe their origin, not to the equality, but to the inequality, of condition.” So wrote, presciently, Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman, in his seminal Democracy […]
Continue ReadingNigeria is all I have, and I have a right to demand that it works for all of us, not just those with influence, wealth, or government positions. I am part of a generation of Nigerians who have lived most of their adult lives under ‘democratic’ rule and yet, I wake up feeling there is […]
Continue ReadingThe most exhilarating part of the US Presidential election 2020 is the fact that President Trump lost the election. It is what many observers thought would happen. They prayed for it. They wished it. In the end, that is what happened on Saturday, November 7, 2020. The major news networks called the election and announced […]
Continue ReadingAt the emergency meeting of the National Economic Council held in Abuja on October 15, 2020 the members unanimously resolved to institute judicial commissions of inquiry to deliver justice for all victims of the dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units. The judicial panels to be set up in all the states, would […]
Continue ReadingEvery pastor who collects tithes is a thief and a robber. At a Sunday service in a New Testament church, the pastor asked the church-members to open their Bibles to Deuteronomy 21:18; and they began to read. “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father […]
Continue ReadingOf recent, there has been a great deal of malarkey about regulating social media on the part of the Nigerian government. Ever his master’s voice, Buhari’s Goebbelsian and eponymously named Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has been championing this case, despite the apparent hypocrisy in his gospel. Why hypocrisy? Well, because both Buhari and Lai […]
Continue ReadingAs of the time of writing this, all indications point to a decisive Electoral College win for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Donald Trump, who stays sleepless at nights to rage-tweet insane inanities, had in his characteristic juvenile schoolyard bullying called Joe “Biden Sleepy Joe.” Well, Trump’s infantile nickname for Biden is ironically fitting in […]
Continue Reading“The blue wave has reached its peak and zenith. The red shall rise, swallow it up and overwhelm it. Joe Biden’s dreams shall be dashed, his “victory” annulled and his celebrations shortlived. Donald Trump shall do a second term and the name of the Lord shall be glorified” -FFK (@Realffk), Twitter, 8th November, 2020. You […]
Continue ReadingAll those who call themselves pastors are not disciples of Jesus. Their authority is not from heaven, but from men. Frustrated by the magnitude of the miracles attending Jesus’ ministry, the chief priests and elders of the Jews challenged him in the temple. They demanded to know by what authority he was doing the things […]
Continue ReadingMy favourite comedians are Bovi and Okey Bakassi. Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River state and Hon Gudaji Kazaure are also gifted entertainers. Their theatrics are primed to calm your nerves. But the real deal in politics has to be US President Donald Trump, by far the most entertaining president I have seen in my […]
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