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The Jerusalem Post is arguably Israel’s most-read English news website and best-selling English newspaper. Last week Wednesday, it published an interesting report of what it described as a “nature drama” involving a large black snake in the town of Shoham, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The huge snake was “found motionless with an equally […]
Continue ReadingDo you remember the wedding party I attended the other day? The one I saw Bẹ́kùnBẹ́kùn at? Yes, that one. I called it Ayamatanga! Google it!! I saw something else too. The bridesmaids’ dresses looked like they had a mission to seduce. Indeed, two of them were looking at me, and it reminded me that […]
Continue ReadingI have enough married brothers to conclude that the excesses of most wives – towards in-laws – often start with how wide the man opened his mouth against his people to his wife. A woman who came into your life knowing your people cannot be disrespected never loses sight of that. The average man becomes […]
Continue ReadingYour hormones and fertility levels start to decline beyond the age of 35, giving you a slim chance of becoming pregnant the longer you wait. You have probably read the statistics. However, the biological clock, which is specific to every woman, is not taken into account in those numbers. You may have made this decision […]
Continue ReadingFormer Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s rumored withdrawal from consideration as a minister in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government because high-tensile inter-elite intrigues torpedoed his senate confirmation and caused the president to sour on him is the bluntest, crudest, most double-dyed political treachery I’ve seen in a long time. Sure, El-Rufai is a detestable, self-important, […]
Continue ReadingIf there is an issue everyone—and I mean everyone—agrees on, it is that the cost of running the government needs urgent and radical pruning. One of the most topical issues in the public service system, administrative cost, is also where the government’s indecisiveness is highly exemplified. So it was no surprise when, on Monday, President […]
Continue ReadingCaveat Emptor: What is adopted and said here is pending the judiciary determination of who ultimately becomes the Nigerian president. “Let me dispense with any political correctness and say it loud and clearly that, any attempt to invade Niger Republic by a Nigerian led ECOWAS Army in the guise of “safeguarding democracy”, will be a […]
Continue Reading“It is quite impossible for those who want to gain power to avoid getting rid of those who are most likely to form the opposition” – Critias, 404 BC, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 196. In addition to those in opposition, power-grabbers abhor those likely to form a rival source of allegiance by the […]
Continue ReadingIt seems to me, with due respect, to every party concerned, that while we are all obsessed with the contemporary, topical issues of Ministerial nominations, the likely conflict with Niger and the noted desperation of the Northern Senators and Elders Forum, as well as others across the country, to prevent same, in addition to the […]
Continue ReadingOne of the bitter lessons Bola Tinubu may have learnt in his abortive war against Niger Republic’s military junta is that with northern Nigeria, blood will always be thicker than water. In this matter, Niger Republic is blood; Nigeria, especially the part of it outside the Muslim north, is water. Northern Nigerians will not sacrifice […]
Continue ReadingIt’s merely weeks ago, on this page, that I was commenting on how, in the hands of Nigeria’s new ruler, the country was steadily eliminating the concept of ethics or morality in public life. At the time, a new Senate President had been installed: Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, whom for eight years […]
Continue ReadingNiger Republic has nothing to offer Nigeria, but trouble. It is one of the largest countries in the world and one of the poorest. Recently, an ambitious commander of the presidential guard seized power, imprisoned the President and incited the population to riot against their own elected leaders. Good drama to enliven the lives of […]
Continue ReadingVery few presidents get the unhappy privilege of previewing the full gamut of worries that will torment their presidency all within their first 100 days. President Bola Tinubu is lucky to belong in this rare collection. In less than a hundred days in office, he has faced challenges in the key areas that make or […]
Continue ReadingA man’s recent message to me read, “My wife is increasingly becoming confrontational with my parents and siblings and when I try to caution her, she would accuse me of not being man enough to protect her. The worst part of all these is that nothing she complains about them is concrete enough to warrant […]
Continue ReadingAccording to impeccable sources, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Monday switched off the grid that supplies electricity to Niger Republic in response to a directive from President Bola Tinubu. It was the first of several measures to force out the military junta that seized power in the country last week Wednesday. Also on Monday, the […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, let me tell you from the outset and without equivocation that I voted “against” the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25th presidential election. And if the opportunity arises again, I will repeat the same thing, whether in the rain or in the scorching sun. It […]
Continue ReadingSuccessive administrations in Nigeria start out by apprehending demons, or enigmatic forces, against which they will test their political strength and define the character of their government. Those forces are the factors on which all evil bedevilling the nation must necessarily be blamed. From coup speeches to inauguration addresses, each administration launches itself by stating […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Department of State Services created some embarrassment for Nigeria with the show of shame it displayed at the Federal High Court in Lagos State. And sadly, it was obvious that the DSS had the blessing of President Bola Tinubu, because there was no statement from the presidency condemning that act, neither was […]
Continue ReadingOne of the major sore points in the Nigerian story has been the negative role played by non-state actors in the making and the unmaking of Nigeria – those characters who drag the country back and down, those who seize state assets, those who steal our crude oil, the merchants of death and disgrace who […]
Continue ReadingThe government of Lagos State denied it, as did the federal: that in the #EndSARS incident of October 20, 2020 at the Lekki tollgate, people were shot and killed. They denied that corpses had been hurriedly evacuated. No government or official was guilty of anything, they insisted. But protesters and other witnesses at the toll […]
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