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Exactly one month out of power, former Nigeria leader Muhammadu Buhari has appeared on Twitter. He was wearing one curious item: a pen. I wondered why. Known neither as a reader nor a writer, he entered the presidency with a lot of important documents and items he needed to read or have read to him. He never […]
Continue ReadingIn a desperate call that can only exacerbate the security challenge in Plateau State, a member of the House of Representatives urged his traumatised constituents to defend themselves. On Monday, Hon. Dachung Bagos said that 19 people were killed within 24 hours last weekend in Jos South and Mangu local government areas of the state. […]
Continue ReadingLast month, popular Christian gospel singer Tope Alabi ignited some controversy when she appropriated a greeting associated with babalawos, while singing in a church. Several Christians defended her but did not assuage her critics who insisted she was encroaching. There is a reason Christians do not conduct their services in Arabic, they argued. What I […]
Continue ReadingIt is reported that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu spoke out the words of the title of this piece. It will be heartwarming if he understands that the poor are not breathing in Nigeria, and he is determined to help them breathe. When we discuss about the poor in Nigeria, we are not just discussing about […]
Continue Reading“Show me your friends; and I will tell you who you are.” How he deals with Festus Keyamo might turn out to be one of the acid tests of President Tinubu’s sincerity in tackling governance in Nigeria. Right in front of our eyes, Keyamo committed three grave offences which, in any other country where the […]
Continue ReadingThe last time Ms Hilda Effiong Bassey featured in this column was in a piece titled “Tales The Country Told Me: Hilda Baci and Seun Kuti” (ThisDay, May 16) wherein I commented on her courage and heroism for using her culinary skills to bring herself to global attention by breaking the Guinness World Record in […]
Continue ReadingMy uncle recently asked me to help guide and counsel his son, who is at that discouraging state which many young Nigerians find themselves in after graduating from the university, doing the national youth service and trying their hands on a few endeavours without success. What many of them tend to do is “japa” — […]
Continue ReadingIt is a sad day and a sadder period for sports in Nigeria. A few days ago, Jeremiah Okorodudu, a famous Nigerian boxer, probably the most flamboyant and loquacious boxer in the country’s boxing history, died in a private hospital in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria. He was only 64 years of age. His death […]
Continue Reading“The man is in the hands of the authorities. Something is being done about that. They will sort themselves out.The financial system was rotten. Few people were making away with our money…that is gone now; the man (Emefiele) is in the hands of the authorities,”-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu The extant grooming of the Nigerian public […]
Continue ReadingI was listening to a radio phone-in programme last week when a final year student of a state-owned tertiary institution called to say there was no way he would be able to complete his degree programme going by the tuition fees just announced by his university. Other callers soon joined the programme to paint scary […]
Continue ReadingTo save Nigeria we must, among other things, go back to Education, Healthcare and Infrastructural development, Cut The High Cost Of Governance, with the President, ministers, governors, legislators and all other political appointees taking a substantial pay cut to save money that could be spent on the welfare of the citizenry – Chief Philip Asiodu, […]
Continue ReadingSince well before Nigeria’s return to elective governance in 1999, the country has been overtaken by a progressive escalation of what Hannah Arendt in her classic On Violence called “a massive intrusion of criminal violence into politics.” In contemporary Nigerianism, the word for this is “banditry”. “Bandits” is a conveniently capacious bogeyman for insecurity in Nigeria that precludes […]
Continue ReadingThere has been so much talk of late about the Ministerial appointments that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is about to make. Given the fast-paced style of governance that he has adopted so far, it is expected that he would not waste time in coming up with a list of cabinet Ministers. The 1999 Constitution vests […]
Continue ReadingOver a month ago, I stumbled on a video of a woman making amala with a bunch of unpeeled and unripe plantain. There were two versions. One blended the unripe plantain and made the paste into amala. The other first cooked the unpeeled plantain before blending. All of a sudden, I started seeing write-ups flying […]
Continue ReadingImmediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently waxed proverbial and made a Facebook post which sounded like a loud complaint: “The axe forgets but the tree remembers…They are the axe. We are the trees. We have long memories. God Bless Nigeria. Amen.” El-Rufai made that sour post on June 13, 2023 – about three […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu is on a roll. He is basking in the glow of praises that have been heaped on him for the removal of petrol subsidies, reinstatement of a managed currency float at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window of the foreign exchange market, as well as signing the Student Loan Bill and […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been receiving accolades for his initial, somewhat radical policy steps since he was inaugurated on May 29. Many economists, foreign media and, surprisingly, some Nigerian opposition figures are impressed with his speed in announcing the end of petrol subsidy, which he followed up by moving to eliminate the multiple exchange […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, February 25, 2023, Nigeria conducted an election for the position of President, which was widely regarded as the most fiercely contested in the country since 1999. On March 01, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner and President-elect. […]
Continue ReadingDear Readers One of the many news items worthy of attention of socio-political observers and citizens of Nigeria last week was the statement released by the former spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Garba Shehu, about the removal of subsidy. Since we now have a new president and he has his own new spokesperson thereby […]
Continue ReadingTwo issues caught my attention last week – the alleged approval of an increase in the salaries of political office holders, which turned out to be false; and the continuous use of Police Prosecutors who are non-Lawyers in the Magistrate Courts. Can RMAFC be that Insensitive? Last week, RMAFC (Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission) was […]
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