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For those of us who had hoped against hope, the 2019 presidential election has proved to be the last straw. We are now convinced that Nigeria is a hopeless case. This country is not just a major disappointment; it is decidedly firmly on the trajectory of a future break up. Today, the silence in the […]
Continue ReadingYoung people are leading a people’s revolution in Algeria and Sudan, both developments remind us forcefully of the wages of mis-governance, the power of the people to seize control of their own destiny, and the role that the youth can play in a country’s development process. It is encouraging to see that in both countries, […]
Continue ReadingApart from Nigeria, can you think of any other country in the whole world where brothers kidnap brothers for ransom? Or where kinsmen visit raw, crude death on their kinsmen in the name of banditry? Or where parents let loose their own pre-teen children to the wild world of terrorism in the name of something […]
Continue ReadingMaybe this article should have been titled: “Why Does APC Never Listen to Bola Tinubu?” Well, there is surely something that the followers of Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) see in him, which some of us don’t. What we see more often is the bad news, the purported greed and alleged ownership of half of Lagos, […]
Continue ReadingEven men who boast that they don’t believe its existence don’t want to taste it. It is one of those things in our local pharmacology that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is yet to figure out. It is a branch of science that is strictly ours. The manufacturers do not have registered names, addresses or […]
Continue ReadingWe marked the World Water Day on March 22 with a damning statistic: over 60 million Nigerians do not have access to safe drinking water. In simpler English, they get their water from unhealthy sources, such as streams and ponds. I will deliberately leave out the stinking statistics on the 47 million still practising open […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I know truth is always bitter, but the time has come when we must all confront our realities and say it as it is. Nigeria is in a big mess and there is nothing a million Buharis can do to change the horrible situation around. However, maybe, things may change slightly if Mr […]
Continue ReadingThe use of the death penalty – the world’s ultimate cruel punishment – has decreased in sub-Saharan Africa according to a recent report released by Amnesty International. This is good news for sub-Saharan Africa and an indication that the region continues to turn against the death penalty. Of the 29 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that […]
Continue ReadingWho will probe the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, for inflated fuel consumption figures? NNPC’s operational and financial results for September 2018 showed that the country guzzled 80 million litres of petrol per day in March 2018, up from the 41 million litres consumed daily in December 2017. […]
Continue ReadingThere is a growing category of Nigerian writing that is quite illuminating of contemporary ethical character. The writings are largely the works of elite Nigerians who ventured into the political terrain, got burned by the unpleasant realities of Nigerian electoral processes and returned to share their experiences. These writers are relatively new entrants into the […]
Continue ReadingIt was, as far as I can remember, the second time in over three decades that I would observe such grief. The first was in 1986 when Dele Giwa, the pioneer editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine was assassinated by a parcel bomb. The second only recently happened after the tragedy of March 10, when an Ethiopian aircraft crashed […]
Continue ReadingIt has been said of Obafemi Awolowo, Western Nigeria’s first premier, that like Roman Empire’s first emperor, Augustus Caesar, he was “an efficient organiser” and a “great builder” who struck several feats that have remained unmatched in Nigeria’s record books several decades after his rule. In his well referenced book, An Outline History of the World, […]
Continue ReadingFollowing a civil protest spearheaded by respected journalist, Ms Kadaria Ahmed, over the violence and lawlessness that now define Zamfara, the federal government last weekend responded by suspending all mining operations in the state. There is a “glaring nexus between the activities of armed bandits and illicit miners, with both mutually re-enforcing each other” said […]
Continue ReadingWhile the date, September 11, is a day remembered with awe, trepidation and pain in the annals of global history as day the American Twin Towers were bombed by terrorists in 2001, it is a date the Yoruba of the South West of Nigeria hold with infectious nostalgia. On this day in 1966, thirty five […]
Continue ReadingWe owe our colleague and compatriot, Kadaria Ahmed a debt of gratitude for leading a group of Zamfara stakeholders to bring to local and international attention the mayhem and chaos going on in her home state of Zamfara State, which resulted in the killing of innocent Nigerians, the disruption of mining activities and the reign […]
Continue ReadingNew York-based international news agency, Bloomberg, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s record over the last four years as discouraging and further stated that it wonders if ‘Baba Go Slow’ “is up to the task” of reviving the economy in his second term. Bloomberg noted that in the year 2000, over 1.4 billion people lived at […]
Continue ReadingAn interesting and recurring debate in our democratic experience of the last 20 years has been: how can we wage the anti-corruption war without the suspicion of selective justice and political vendetta? Justice Walter Onnoghen, the embattled chief justice of Nigeria, has just fallen on his sword after three months of intense controversy over alleged […]
Continue Reading(I wrote this article the very night MICHAEL JACKSON died and wept throughout the typing… My wife looked on in wonderment… I rate it as one of my top three articles in 40 years… Now that Michael Jackson is back in the news, more for bad reasons than good, many people have requested me to […]
Continue ReadingA unique quality of the 2019 general election was the voter behaviour of the South-west electorate. The behaviour was clearly against the run of the ‘tribalism’ (my brother right or wrong, son of the soil political culture) scarred history of pre and post-independence politics of Nigeria. From what we now know of the grand subversive […]
Continue Reading“Let Us Face the Future: A Presentation On Offer To the People of Britain” was the game-changing manifesto presented by the British Labour party in the pivotal post-war election of 1945. What is the social contract between the Yoruba leadership elite and the people? I cannot think of any. In facing the future, we must […]
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