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On Wednesday, the government raised the price of petrol to N160 a litre, the third increase in a few weeks. Since then, there have been massive complaints and calls for action. The phrases – Occupy Nigeria, Enough is Enough, Revolution Now and Days of Rage – have been trending in the social media. It is […]
Continue ReadingSome women were recently caught with babies said to be ‘’a few days old.’’ It was further discovered that they specialised in selling newborns. I want to address couples who may be moved to “find a child anyhow.” One thing I have learnt about life is that all we do are accompanied by consequences. Igbo […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 continued with the rejigging of his administration’s policy plank by repackaging his erstwhile three point development agenda of anti-corruption, fighting insurgency as well as economic development. He chose the occasion of the parley with diplomats for the presentation of their credentials to him to make the very […]
Continue ReadingBy now, most people are aware that some disgruntled lawyers pulled out of the Nigerian Bar Association and formed a splinter group called the “New NBA”. The disengagement was a culmination of the NBA’s rescinding of a speakership invitation extended to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, for their annual conference held last August. Critics […]
Continue ReadingIn a badly divided polity, it is no surprise that a number of stakeholders have expressed opposition to the recently re-introduced National Water Resources bill in the House of Representatives. But in describing it as “another version of Ruga which objective is to create grazing areas in the 36 states of the federation for herders […]
Continue ReadingThose who refer to the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates by Lord Lugard in 1914 as a mistake are, once in a while, proved right by the mutual suspicions among us, even though the Nigerian nation is still standing. Not even the apocalyptic prediction of a doomed Nigeria by 2015 by the West […]
Continue ReadingThe events in Mali, one of our neighbours in the West African sub-region should be of great concern to all Nigerians. In that country, democracy suffered a huge setback when on August 18, the military seized power. Since then, we have seen frenetic efforts by leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) […]
Continue ReadingEmpowered citizens voted for politicians they knew would make them poorer, for liars to clean up politics…Tom Fletcher, The Naked Diplomat. Dr Chidi Amuta takes the cake for both elegant turn of phrase and sheer depth of thoughtful analysis. I read his recent piece in THISDAY, ‘2023: Igbos and the Politics of Moral Consequence’ on […]
Continue ReadingPerception! What we do and how we do it contribute immensely to the image others have of us. For long, our elders have put those of us who respect culture, cherish traditions, who are neither elders nor youths, in a difficult situation. We are torn between respecting hierarchy and risk being seen as tolerating closed-mindedness […]
Continue ReadingThe renewed interest in the crisis that continues to rock Southern Kaduna would be helpful if it produces a genuine effort at resolving the problem and ensuring lasting peace in that part of the country that remains troubled, divided and to all intents and purposes, a killing field. It was reported that between July 21 […]
Continue ReadingThe story of Jesus does not make an Arnold Schwarzenegger kind of movie. At the end of this film, the great protagonist is not standing victorious. He is hanging dead on a cross. Okay, so He resurrected after three days. But how many people knew about it? Did I hear you say five hundred? Just […]
Continue ReadingYou may not understand what inimitable Fela Anikulapo’s early days of Koola Lobitos’ ballistics-sounding song, with the refrain, Alujanjan kijan, was about until you hear the full anecdote. It goes thus: A very debilitating drought had seized the village inhabited by Tortoise, that figurative animal with huge cunning. Hungry and despised, he one day met the […]
Continue ReadingI’ve always had a sneaky suspicion that judgments on election petitions in Nigeria are influenced by political pressures from the presidency, but a conscientious judge who is familiar with the issues and who is deeply concerned about the brazenness of the politicization of election tribunal judgements confirmed my suspicions last week. One of the thrills […]
Continue ReadingAbout 5,000 people thronged the crusade ground. They came to hear the salvaging word from the mouth of the Master. They were poor and impoverished. I am sure that the effects of the weight of the burden of hunger they carried must have been tattooed on their grim faces. The disciples of the Master were […]
Continue ReadingTwo can play the game. That should sum up the politicking surrounding the disinvitation of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, for the 2020 annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) where he was to be a guest speaker. If he was “cancelled” simply because of the allegations that he does not […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, please permit to offer a quick apology. I had planned to conclude Chief Bode Akindele’s serialised tributes this week, but man proposes, and God disposes. A matter of urgent national importance necessitated this sudden change of plans. Let’s now go quickly to the latest bad news from Ghana on how Nigerian traders are […]
Continue ReadingThe rescission of the invitation extended to Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as a consequence of sustained social media pressures from people who are discomfited by his history of intolerance and verbal terrorism against his own people will inflict tremendous violence on the governor’s psychic […]
Continue ReadingAccused of blasphemy against Muhammad [PBUH], the Prophet of Islam, in a song, the death sentence handed down to one Yahya Sharif-Aminu, a 22 year old Muslim singer, by an Upper Sharia Court in Kano State, has once again renewed the conversation about the unresolved conflict between the state and religion in Nigeria. As of […]
Continue ReadingIf morning shows the day, Professor Auwalu Yadudu, a former legal counsellor to the late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, cannot be a credible character witness for constitutional rectitude in Nigeria. And he knows this, hence his recent sly self-distancing from the Abacha heritage. Before the cock crows, Jesus told Peter, you would […]
Continue ReadingWords could barely describe how irritated I felt watching the has-been, Femi Fani-Kayode, berate a Daily Trust journalist, Charles Eyo, for asking him what seemed like a gotcha question. From the distance of my phone screen, I badly wanted to intervene to make him stop. What could have called for that “Fani-power” level of vituperation? Anyone who […]
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