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Last Monday, as noiselessly as a phantom, President Bola Tinubu brought home his strange friend. While an Igbo proverb says the footsteps of a man cannot create a stampede, Alexander Zingman, the president’s Belarusian friend’s sloppy footsteps created more than a stampede. It was as though the great South African poet, Mazisi Kunene’s lines were […]
Continue Reading“On matters of security, the bulk (sic) stops at the President’s table.” ―Bola Ahmed Tinubu, April 2014 On 26 January 2009, Mamman Bello Ali died. He was the governor of Yobe State in north-east Nigeria. At around the same time, an anti-terrorism campaign by the government of Nigeria in Yobe State and its neighbour, Borno State, was […]
Continue ReadingWhen the future is uncertain, the one who owns it may wander in confusion, unsure of where to begin or why the path ahead seems so dark. In all my years of living, the one aspect of life that continues to baffle me despite my experiences, wisdom, and emotional resilience is the complexity of the relationship […]
Continue ReadingAs economic hardship bites and the state fails to curtail the problem of insecurity, people rue their decision to vote for Bola Tinubu as president in 2023. This angst seems to be coming from every corner of the country; people frequently denounce this administration’s failure to provide relief from the years of deprivation. From the […]
Continue Reading“This BOOK OF LIES, intended for the INDOCTRINATION of Ibo children into a LIFE OF FALSEHOODS, was written by two Ibo people. It was approved by an agency of the Federal “One Nigeria” Government in the Education Ministry. And it was allowed to be published. I bet it is already in circulation and being taught […]
Continue ReadingThe trio of Sule Lamido, Professor Ishaq Akintola and Bishop Hassan Kukah aren’t greenhorns in their vocations: politics, advocacy for inclusive governance, and evangelical activism. Lamido is fixated on shouldering the burden of a political party; Akintola’s fixation is Muslim rights, whilst Kukah is fixated on speaking “truth” to power. Their callings may seem unrelated, […]
Continue ReadingThe world is full of parallels. But some parallels are stranger than others. Where, for instance, are the similarities between Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna State, and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man? On the surface, there’s clear blue water between them: one is a modestly successful technocrat, administrator and politician in Nigeria; the other is […]
Continue ReadingFrom last week, continues the narrative of how the General Victor Malu-led military tribunal on Tuesday April 28, 1998 sentenced General Oladipo Diya and other officers to death for alleged coup plot. Four of the accused persons were convicted of “information gathering” and implication in the alleged coup plot, and sentenced to life imprisonment. They […]
Continue ReadingThe circumstances surrounding Vice President Kashim Shettima over his prospects in the 2027 presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC are not surprising in Nigeria. Almost all sitting vice-presidents since the advent of the Fourth Republic with the notable exception of Namadi Sambo faced scrutiny on retaining their slots in the election for a second term. […]
Continue Reading“When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of the regime” – Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965 “The face of tyranny is always mild at first” – Jean Racine, 1639-1699 Most African and Nigerian leaders are often too busy hustling to […]
Continue ReadingA tree does not fall in the forest and kill someone at home. That proverb may be true one hundred years ago. It has expired; its truth is lost to the ravages of this century’s technology. Check what Iran and Israel are sending to each others from a billion kilometres apart. They are pressing buttons, […]
Continue ReadingFor the second time in three years, an emergent name on the Nigerian political scene reminded me of a cutting from an American newspaper that Dr. Haruna Sanusi gave me in Sokoto in the 1980s. Reverend Jerry Falwell’s right-wing, televangelical Moral Majority movement was making waves in the US at the time. Years before its […]
Continue ReadingCompatriots, I don’t mean to scare you. I just thought we should do some cross-fertilisation of ideas and intellectual cobwebbing. What do you think can solve this rising cost of living crisis? Can you rely on the government for your daily survival? Do you believe things will get better with time? Are you hopeful of […]
Continue ReadingCorruption has been established severally as a profound problem on Nigeria’s path to progress and development. Former President Muhammadu Buhari, even though he did not demonstrate adequate will in the fight against corruption, recognised this fact, in submitting that we must kill corruption before it kills Nigeria. Apart from Nigeria’s retrogressive performance in the Transparency […]
Continue ReadingLast week, it was announced that the International Conference Centre, Abuja, was renamed Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike. The curious thing was that the ICC was not built by Tinubu but only renovated by him. And while the ICC was built by General […]
Continue ReadingGeneral (rtd.) Jeremaih Timbut Useni (16 February 1943 – 23 January 2025) alias JERRY BOY, who answered the final call in Paris, France, was partly a fulfilled man. The then Head of State, Major General (rtd.) Muhammadu Buhari (82) GCFR appointed him as the Governor of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta States) in January […]
Continue ReadingCandidly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done very well with June 12 by taking the narrative from where President Muhammadu Buahri left off, and choosing to give that date, the history and the symbolism of it, form, style and substance. President Buhari, despite the somnambulism of his administration, it would be recalled, suddenly woke up […]
Continue ReadingAccording to a story an acquaintance told me about a young lady whom his family employed as a domestic help, she tested positive for some sexually transmitted infections and was subjected to intensive treatment before she could move into his house. When she eventually started living with them, she made him so uncomfortable with her […]
Continue ReadingHon Justice Lawal Uwais, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, died on the 6th of June 2025. He was 89. In the annals of Nigerian constitutional history, few jurists have left a legacy as enduring and transformative as that of Hon. Justice Muhammed Lawal Uwais. While his tenure on the Supreme Court bench was the longest […]
Continue ReadingMODERATOR: We take this space for ‘The Sick Nation Debate’, a town hall exchange between two political tendencies recommending themselves to our sick nation. Today’s edition is between the ruling APC and a budding coalition which, for now, uses the ADC label. We start in alphabetical order. APC: Alphabetical order? No. A good debate should […]
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