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It did not come as a surprise that Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole would survive the latest move to sack him as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). His opponents have been hitting the tail, instead of the head. The gist is that Oshiomhole’s tenure of crisis cannot be divorced from the overbearing ambition […]
Continue ReadingPeople wake up and they are thankful to have woken up. All of a sudden, an explosion occurs and they are dead or seriously injured or their homes are destroyed and they become homeless. Some are right inside their homes when disaster visits them. Some are driving or walking when they meet tragedy. What about […]
Continue ReadingHis Royal Highness, the new Emir of Kano, might end up with the same fate that befell him as CBN Governor. Of all the cities in Northern Nigeria, Kano is perhaps the most important. Although it used to be subject to the Sokoto Caliphate, in many respects it has since become a far more important […]
Continue ReadingThe dethronement of His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II is a huge loss for my home state of Kano, but what appears to be Kano’s loss might become Nigeria’s gain. I have followed the ugly drama of his unfortunate dethronement from the throne he craved to ascend his entire adult life, yet, like the sudden […]
Continue ReadingAs it turns out, President Muhammadu Buhari knew nothing about the crisis in Kano State. No, not that crisis, in which he personally saved Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, from the ethical and political flames of being seen on video illegally stuffing millions of dollars into his babanriga. I am talking about the governor routing Muhammadu Sanusi […]
Continue ReadingOf all the critical stakeholders responsible for the management of the Nigerian economy that met last Wednesday in Abuja at the open plenary of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s second consultative roundtable, it was probably only the remarks made by the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari that […]
Continue ReadingThe dethronement of His Highness Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II as the emir of Kano did not catch some of us by surprise: it was long in the making. All you need to do is google his public statements in the last four years, either when he was commenting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policies or […]
Continue ReadingThese are depressing times – stemming from different factors of course – for a large sector of the nation. Insecurity, economy in a coma, a leadership in name only, having vanished into ether, permanently AWOL in a time of serial crisis. No wonder mimic and debased forms of leadership assertiveness rush in to fill the […]
Continue ReadingI was personally spun into a ruffle and baffle when in 2014; Sanusi Lamido Sanusi jostled with others to become the new Emir of Kano. Inside of me, I queried Sanusi’s judgment. In wonderment I tried to figure out what was esthetical and bonny to Sanusi in a Kano emirate throne. But Sanusi desired to […]
Continue ReadingThe independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa. – Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) First President of Ghana. February 24 slid into history again a couple of days ago, hardly remembered by many as the 54th anniversary of the military coup that toppled Kwame Nkrumah as Ghana’s president and […]
Continue ReadingEmir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, was finally dethroned for insubordination to the political authorities in Kano State. It was not an altogether surprising development. Sanusi has both been outspoken and arrogant. He could not have survived the ultra-conservative ideology of the northern aristocracy nor conform to their willful blindness, even as their leadership shortcomings turned […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State finally mustered the courage to do what he had been planning for almost three years: He dethroned the 14th Emir of Kano, HH Muhammadu Sanusi ll. Interestingly, the statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, made no reference to the rash of probes […]
Continue ReadingNo one writes another’s legacy. We write our legacies with every breath we draw because a legacy is not what you acquire, it is what you create, it is what you do. Professor Pius Adesanmi created words. When life comes to an end, as it will, what remains are the memories we made and the […]
Continue ReadingOn Friday, the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, swore in Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem as the acting president of the Court of Appeal. This followed her appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari following the retirement of Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, who had clocked the statutory mandatory retirement age of 70 years, as justice of the Appeal […]
Continue Reading“Amotekun is the arrival of Yoruba freedom. It is a good initiative and has nothing to do with politics but with the safety of life and property. It cannot lead to secession. Yoruba cannot secede from Nigeria because our fathers have invested so much in the country”- Chief Olu Falae. I love, respect and admire […]
Continue ReadingOf all the updates that have been given so far by the Lagos State authorities on the government’s efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, and ensure proper care for the reported index case, and other possible cases (there is a second case now), the most intriguing update for me is the disclosure that the […]
Continue ReadingThe law needs to be decked out like a trans-vestite, in female drapery so as to conceal its unlovely phallus. –––Edmund Burke The Nigerian Supreme Court has mired itself in odious political mud. In the process, it has descended from the pinnacle of learned discourse to the rough and tumble of street corner banter and […]
Continue ReadingBefore we go any further let me state that I’m neither a Devil worshipper, a member of the Church of Satan or intend to glorify him. I’m a Catholic, born and bred, and intend to stay so. The Devil is the most vilified person ( or entity) in the world and is blamed for everything […]
Continue ReadingTongues have been waging on why the South-East Governors Forum reneged on its initial plan to launch a regional security outfit in Igboland, similar to the Amotekun of the South-West. But the people should ponder no more: the sudden u-turn has everything to do with sheer selfishness. Security crisis has become an existential threat in […]
Continue ReadingWere you as disgusted as I was on Monday when the Cross River house of assembly voted against confirming Justice Akon Ikpeme as the substantive chief judge of the state for purely ethnic reasons? In the wisdom of the state lawmakers, Ikpeme had to be rejected because — and I am not joking! — she […]
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