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I was left depressed by the news that President Tinubu was heading to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the G-20 summit in India, to lobby President Mohamed Al Nahyan for the removal of a Visa ban placed on Nigerian travellers by the UAE authorities. Unfortunately, it happened. Tinubu landed in the UAE. The Arab […]
Continue ReadingIt’s evening yet on Creation Day in Odò Obà, the Land of the prized Parrots, where the Lion complained about not having a crown to proclaim his kingship, and his creator gave him a golden mane. Later, he complained about his teeth and he got powerful jaws. He looked at his paws and bewailed, he […]
Continue ReadingTwo developments that happened last week seemed disparate but were interconnected. First, it was the Bola Tinubu administration’s 100th day in office. That timeline used to be for an administration to glance back and celebrate its bold and decisive decisions that potentially set the country on track, but this one was rather muted. Several op-eds […]
Continue ReadingFifteen of our 36 governors and three deputy governors travelled to Kigali, Rwanda last month for a three-day executive leadership retreat. We were told the trip was organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). The retreat was reportedly designed to enable our governors to “re-imagine Nigeria’s leadership to achieve transformation and nationwide sustainable development.” Remarkably, governors from all […]
Continue ReadingThis is a freedom manifesto for the captured people of Nigeria offered in autobiographical form. Beginning from age 17 as an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria I have rallied resistance against injustice. My early cry for doing things right peaked with my calling out students at UNN to protest police killing of University of […]
Continue ReadingLast week, another Nigerian musician, Asake (Ahmed Ololade), had a sold-out concert at the 20,000-capacity O2 Arena in London. Before him, other Nigerian musicians like Wizkid, Burna Boy, and Davido had achieved the same fate. Some decades ago, something like that was unimaginable. Until the turn of the century, the popularity of Nigerian music was […]
Continue ReadingMarriage institution is as old as the human race. It is also as prominent as the human society; transcending country, nationality, race, religion, and culture. It is one of the basic socially acceptable relationships among the human beings. Given, my knowledge of traditions and cultures of many social groups may be limited; the definition or […]
Continue ReadingOpeyemi Bamidele was the candidate of the Labour Party in the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State. He thought he had worked hard enough to earn a victory but on the D-Day, he learnt a lesson profound enough to last him a lifetime. At exactly 7a.m. on the day of the election, a […]
Continue ReadingI confess that last Wednesday, I feared I may be a masochist. I do not know what else one diagnoses after he spent most of 10 hours listening to the Presidential Election Petitions Court. I mean, I had other things to do, and I should have moved on to them the moment I learned that […]
Continue ReadingBefore anything else, let’s do with some laughter because this is a sobering journey into time – a journey gathering hailstones, lightning and thunder – tools to be unleashed in the cases of royal injustice and intolerance in Iwo and Ilorin. A good laugh is a drink to wash down the two plates of stones-filled […]
Continue ReadingFor 14 or so hours on Wednesday, the presidential election petition tribunal delivered its judgment on the petitions filed against the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the president of Nigeria. The unanimous verdict, in one word, was: dismissed. Needless to say, this verdict disappointed supporters of […]
Continue ReadingOrdinarily, it would be hazardous to judge the judgment of five eminent Federal judges over an issue as life threatening as the results of a Nigerian presidential election. Apex power is involved. Big money is at stake. Livelihoods are up on the hoist. The instruments of state and non-state violence are at the disposal of those […]
Continue ReadingThe week was ushered in with a gross and temperamental preview by retired supreme court Justice Mary Odili wherein she took direct aim at a party (and its surrogates) to the dispute before the Presidential Elections Petitions Court, PEPC. Her speech at a ceremony in honour of a lawyer, Mr J.K Gadzama was a study […]
Continue ReadingLawyers: Getting it Wrong! The theme of the 2023 Nigerian Bar Association’s Annual General Conference (NBA AGC), ‘Getting it Right, Charting the Course for Nigeria’s Nation Building’, was appropriate and extremely relevant to the phase in life which Nigeria currently finds herself in, with the precarious state of the nation and the advent of a new Government. […]
Continue ReadingAnyone who has seen enough of Nigerian history and politics would have known beforehand how Wednesday would unfold. Despite all the build-up of anticipation in some quarters, the procedure of presidential electoral petition tribunals is standard: they deliver their judgment (expectedly in favour of the incumbent), analysts will dissect the verdict for days (maximum, a […]
Continue ReadingISESE has come, but not gone. We salute all those – human rights activists, community leaders, affronted citizens, advocates of equity and all – but the state governors most especially – who have taken history to task and boldly formalised a level praying ground for the exploration of the infinite, the realm of intuitions, which […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Akinwumi Isola’s Efunsetan Aniwura (1981), the first play written in 1961-62 while he was a student at the University of Ibadan, is highly celebrated. It is a historical drama which reflects proceedings of the 19th century reign of the heroine, second Iyalode (Queen of women) of Ibadan, Efunsetan Aniwura. Aniwura – one with a surplusage of gold – a fiery, Egba-born […]
Continue ReadingIn the dying days of his administration in 2007, President Olusegun Obasanjo sold 51 percent of federal government’s stakes in two of Nigeria’s four ailing refineries to Bluestar Oil Services Ltd — a consortium floated by Dangote Oil, Zenon Oil and Transcorp Plc — for $761 million. Shortly after the inauguration of a new administration, […]
Continue ReadingThe Nasir El Rufai-led True Federalism Committee set up by the All Progressives Congress to look into the issue of restructuring submitted its reports to the National Working Committee on Thursday, January 25, 2018. The committee in its reports called for more devolution of powers to the states and urged that the police and prisons […]
Continue Reading“So now that President Bola Tinubu has held his first Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting with his Ministers, what do you think?” “When was that? You know, sometimes, I try to select what I pay attention to in this country. This place is so bad enough it can affect your mental health. You have to […]
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