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If Nigeria were to survive the ticking time bomb of the rigged 2019 presidential election, one of the prerequisites would be that there cannot be a Yoruba president in the country for at least another 20 years. Otherwise, we would be further stoking the flames of disintegration. The Yoruba have provided the president in eight […]
Continue ReadingBabajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State governor-elect and some of the other governors-elect across the country have been busy making promises and beating their chests out of what seems like an epileptic fit of triumphalism. I urge caution. The new wife is always tempted to put down the old wife – that is what African tradition […]
Continue ReadingFor some, success comes easy while for a great many of us we have to toil for it. The writer, Piers Plowright once said that “great men do not walk easy roads”. To get to where you want to be in life can often be a laborious journey: there are no shortcuts; there are but […]
Continue ReadingHave you considered the risk of travelling to Europe through the desert? Or travelling to the United States of America to do menial job even when you hold a good degree that can make you start work on management level in Nigeria? The truth is that any young man can make it in Nigeria without […]
Continue ReadingI always hesitate to use the “R” word because I don’t understand how it really works, but a lot of Nigerians have been talking about “revolution” for a while. They say Nigeria will experience a revolution at a point in time, given the way the society has been going: the rich getting richer, the poor […]
Continue ReadingThere is a lot of buzz currently over the recent programme by the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to dismantle the Kano Emirate and contain the influence of its emir. For the younger generation that might not know much about the earlier attempt by late Governor Abubakar Rimi to do same, I offer today some […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, to say I love the former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, is an understatement. Many have asked me what is so unique about this phenomenal African leader and that if he is that good, why did Ghanaians sack him from the Presidential office. My main reason for my adoration of this quintessential […]
Continue ReadingWith the rest of the world beginning to turn its back on petroleum products in favour of sustainable renewable energy sources the demand for oil in the coming years will drop: the current price of crude oil stands at about $60 per barrel and analyst are predicting this will drop to about $15 per barrel […]
Continue ReadingFumigation is a method of pest control which involves a process of disinfecting an area by spraying dangerous chemicals in it. Manufacturers of these chemicals (fumigants and insecticides) usually dish out strong warnings to users, which are boldly written on the containers, that they should avoid inhalation of these chemicals or its contact with food, […]
Continue ReadingLast week, at a private event in Lagos, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, ruffled elitist feathers when he laid out the blueprint for the possible defeat of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political hegemony over Lagos State. The response might seem unrehearsed but knowing politicians and the extent to which they overreach when they play […]
Continue ReadingLegalize it Don’t criticize it Legalize it, yeah yeah And I will advertise it Some call it tamjee Some call it the weed Some call it marijuana Some of them call it ganja Never mind, got to legalize it It’s good for the flu Good for asthma Good for tuberculosis Even numara thrombosis Go to […]
Continue ReadingLast week, travellers on the Ibadan-Ife-Akure expressway were accosted by bandits who attacked, injured and robbed people, while shooting sporadically. Also, in what appears to be a separate incident on the road that same day, one professor from the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH) was abducted. The incidents have brought a chilling cold running […]
Continue ReadingSome weeks ago when some young men were arrested in the United Arab Emirates over the allegation of robbery and some Nigerians were sentenced to death for drug-trafficking in Saudi Arabia, Nigerian officials either called a press conference or issued a statement to announce these. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs […]
Continue ReadingWhen the All Progressives Congress (APC) discovered that Atiku had the authentic votes of the 2019 presidential election, retrieved from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s back server, the party went into panic mode. Its first reaction was to demand that Atiku be prosecuted for hacking into the INEC network. But this position was self-defeating. […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari is under obligation to announce a new Federal cabinet. The tenure of his present team of aides, including Ministers, Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants automatically expires on May 29, 2019. Whereas the President took six months to announce many of these appointments in 2015, the convention and the law […]
Continue ReadingHis Royal Highness, Muhammadu Sanusi II of the House of Dabo and Emir of Kano, is quite thin-skinned. He is very adept at excoriating, rightfully or otherwise, any individual or institution that falls out of line. But he does not like being at the receiving end of the slightest form of criticism. Twice, I have […]
Continue ReadingI was here in 2015 to speak at the Oxford Africa Conference on “A Continent on the Move: People, Politics and Business Across Borders.” That opportunity, four years ago, to actively engage a broad range of stakeholders was mutually beneficial and I believe today’s will be even more rewarding. A few of my compatriots had […]
Continue ReadingWhen the news filtered in that the Muhammadu Buhari government, embarrassed into a scamper by the spate of killings of innocent Nigerians in Zamfara State and other parts of the North-West of Nigeria, had sent a delegation to meet with the national leaders of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Birnin-Kebbi, capital […]
Continue ReadingI will quit – Wife sometimes, one-sided stories are the simplest way of making wrong and misleading conclusions. A classic case is the story published last week in this column over which I received many responses by SMS, email and telephone calls in addition to torrents of responses on WhatsApp platforms. While many seems to […]
Continue ReadingEleven years ago — to be specific, on July 7, 2008 — the title of my column was: “One Day, the People Will Rebel”. I warned that the extravagant lifestyles of our elite in the face of crippling poverty in the country would come back to bite all of us one day. At the time, […]
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