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‘All empires fall, eventually. But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else, who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base […]
Continue ReadingMarriages are best enjoyed when couples understand one another. This is because no relationship is perfect as every partner has their shortcomings. However, it’s a good thing if partners try to study one another’s behaviours to relate well for healthy union. How best can a partner relate with a spouse who gets angry easily over […]
Continue ReadingWe often tell ourselves a lot of beautiful lies in Nigeria. One of my favourite is the saying: “This is not the dream of our founding fathers.” By that, we often try to claim our founding fathers had a dream for Nigeria from which we have deviated — the dream of oneness, of national unity. […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, please, let me warn that I’m not writing the usual political epistle today. I’m dedicating my column to my original love and business, lifestyle and entertainment. We talk so much politics in Nigeria that we often forget that one of the sectors that can help our economic diversification is Tourism, Entertainment and Lifestyle. […]
Continue ReadingBola Tinubu, national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), for some strange and unnecessary reason, made himself an issue in the just concluded Edo State governorship election. For an election whose dominant message was a protest against godfatherism, a message aptly projected with the #EdoNoBeLagos hashtag on social media, it was ill-advised for Tinubu, the […]
Continue ReadingA good marriage can be accomplished if you and your spouse possess some characters necessary to promote emotional stability in your marriage. One of the biggest challenges facing marriages in our society is the lack of gender equality which places many women at a disadvantage due to certain religious principles and educational disparity. Little wonder […]
Continue ReadingThe incumbent governor of Edo State and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Godwin Obaseki, was declared the winner of the Edo State election on Sunday by the Independent National Electoral Commission. From available reports, the election was adjudged well-conducted when compared to the standard of elections conducted in Nigeria in recent years. In […]
Continue ReadingIn the aftermath of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State and the victory of the incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki, some have drawn comparisons between Obaseki and the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode. These arguments have gone as far as suggesting that bravery and the lack of it mark the difference between the […]
Continue ReadingThe Criminal Ordinance imposed on conquered territories by the British colonial regime provided for the detention of people at the pleasure of His Majesty, the King of England. The few traditional rulers who challenged the ruthless exploitation of the resources of the territory of Nigeria and particularly the monopoly of coastal trade by foreign business […]
Continue Reading“In the US, after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany, after the war, there was the Marshall plan for roads, rail, housing, energy, water and so on. That created massive employment after the devastation of the war and helped them to rebuild the country.” -Raila […]
Continue ReadingThe pundits who had predicted the outcome and the nature of the Gubernatorial election in Edo State got it all wrong. The Edo 2020 election may well prove to be a turning point in the management of elections in Nigeria, and if not, there are certainly lessons to be learnt from it. It was in […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, will not stop amazing Nigerians! In yet another in the series of what could be described as ‘speaking truth to power’, Obasanjo recently berated the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for mismanaging the country’s diversity. According to him, “old fault lines that were disappearing have opened up in greater fissures and with drums of hatred, disintegration and separation and accompanying choruses […]
Continue ReadingI watched, with considerable amusement, Femi Adesina’s interview on Channels TV on Wednesday, September 17, 2020, wherein Femi said that his boss, General Muhammadu Buhari, inherited a badly divided nation from former President Goodluck Jonathan, and has been working to unite her. Mr Adesina said: “As of 2015, when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria is currently like a small hamlet invaded by a thousand witches, each bearing a sack full of assorted plagues and poxes. The trouble is in not knowing which affliction ails us most or which is likely to deal the ultimate fatal blow. Of late, sensitive elders, faction leaders and honest citizens have put a […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I’m aware that many of us have given up on President Muhammadu Buhari changing his modus operandi. I won’t blame anyone for arriving at such decision. After spending over five years in power, we can only await a miracle of volcanic proportions to alter this perfidious drift towards cataclysmic perdition into which the […]
Continue ReadingFinally, the fog surrounding the fraudulent motivation behind the failed Gas Supply Processing Agreement (GSPA) between Nigeria and Process & Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) is being cleared gradually by a United Kingdom Commercial Court, which has established a prima facie case of fraud against P&ID. The Nigerian conspirators are being exposed and men who had […]
Continue ReadingIf you multiply hypocrisy by incompetence and divide the product by impunity, the answer you get is a failed Federal Republic of Nigeria led by the aged pensioner, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Also, if you add idleness and vainglory to immaturity and subtract the result from common sense, two wantoning kids touring a sand […]
Continue ReadingIt was President Olusegun Obasanjo who, during the 2007 electioneering campaign, told us that the election was a “do or die affair”. He was determined to install his successor and nothing was going to stand in his way. The beneficiary of that electoral heist, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, did acknowledge the tainted nature of his mandate […]
Continue ReadingWhen the latest brickbat exchange between pastors and Ifedayo Olarinde (aka Daddy Freeze) started, I simply wanted to watch how this round would play out differently from the last time. However, after reading the intervention of the senior pastor of Covenant Christian Centre, Pastor Poju Oyemade, where he made a case for respecting constituted authority, […]
Continue ReadingOn September 8, Terwase Akwaza, a.k.a Gana, a wanted Benue State militant, was killed by the Nigerian military and his corpse was exhibited like a trophy at the back of a pick-up truck. There is something wrong with how we treat human beings, dead or alive. It betrays a fundamental loss of dignity in us, […]
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