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Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) Season 7 winner, Nigerian actress, model, hype woman and entertainer, Ijeoma Josephine Otabor, popularly known as Phyna, has disclosed that she is now ready for marriage. She disclosed this via her Twitter handle. Sharing photos of herself donning a wedding gown, Phyna wrote: “Me practicing my wedding gown. 26 and ready.” […]
Continue ReadingAmerica was a pitiable sight last Thursday. That great country was spread on the bare floor. It had fallen like a hippopotamus. President Joe Biden’s legs were wrapped over each other like a malevolent viper that just had its backbone yanked apart by an irreverent bullet. America looked helpless. The edges of Biden’s blue suit […]
Continue ReadingBetween an inaugural speech full of quotable nuggets and his reflex actions in just one week of presidential power, Mr. Bola Tinubu may have sketched the footprints of his presidency. A casual off script remark on the removal of fuel subsidy (‘Fuel subsidy is gone!’) has set off a labour skirmish that could degenerate into […]
Continue ReadingDear ma, May God bless you for your insightful messages. Please advise virgins in their 20s to develop intimacy with the Holy Ghost before marriage. A lot of them are marrying wrong partners out of impatience; they don’t even pray and hear from God before making the decision to marry and end up divorced, making […]
Continue ReadingEvery government transition begins with a week of gràgrà where the new helmsman tries to assert their power by making definitive executive decisions. The week of gràgrà is when new leaders dis-anchor from the old. This phase, where the cliches of a “new beginning” are still being belted out, is where the newly enthroned must make a show of […]
Continue ReadingIn a show of desperation (some would say cowardice) at the polling station in Daura on 25th February, former President Muhammadu Buhari displayed his ballot paper after exercising his franchise. The unusual gesture – which goes against the spirit of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines – was a not-so-subtle signal to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he (Buhari) had kept his side of the bargain. […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, was sworn in as the 16th President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria along with his Vice President, Kashim Shettima, GCON, at the 7th major transition ceremony since the return of Nigeria to civilian democratic rule in 1999. The event was held at the Eagle Square, Abuja. […]
Continue ReadingForget their pretensions and volte-faces, when outgoing Nigerian public officials wake up tomorrow, 29 May, they will wake up into emptiness. That void cannot be filled by the wealth they have acquired in office. Nor can it be eliminated by Muhammadu Buhari’s reported haste to flee Aso Villa tomorrow. At the launch of a book […]
Continue ReadingMy Lord, I write, as a concerned member of the Nigerian bar, regarding a subject which has generated controversy among members of the bar and indeed the larger public in the past week. Confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low. On 22 May 2023, at the opening ceremony of the annual conference of […]
Continue ReadingOn 31 December 1983, Sani Abacha, then an unknown Brigadier in the Nigerian Army, went on radio to announce the overthrow of the elected civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari, claiming that the military had done so “in the discharge of our national role as promoters and protectors of our national interest” because of “the great economic […]
Continue ReadingWith increasing intensity as the President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s era hurtles to an embarrassing end, the truth has become inescapable: his government is as much a lie as any other. I have given him credit for some infrastructural work, but Buhari ought to be insulted that he may be remembered in that light, especially […]
Continue ReadingBelievers are slaves of Jesus. I wrote in my new book, Kingdom Dynamics: The Day of My Death, that Jesus saved my life and then took my life. He saved me because He wanted to kill me. As a result, my Saviour became my adversary and killer. That is kingdom dynamics. Similarly, Jesus frees slaves from bondage […]
Continue ReadingThe bare concrete parade ground of Eagle Square will tomorrow be animated by the symbolism of state ritual. Like most structures in Abuja’s homeless architecture, Eagle Square was originally designed by soldiers in power as a tribute to the legacy of parade grounds, a venue for rehearsing their trade. It has now become a favourite […]
Continue ReadingIn the light of the individual and collective experience of Nigerians in the past several weeks, it is probably a shared experience that I have not been sleeping well in as many weeks. This is likely the case if the prevalent mood of despair and despondency that followed the parody of recently concluded general elections […]
Continue ReadingThe phrase sounds so harmless that you can hardly suspect it is a piece of error. That is ‘funny enough’, when used to mean surprisingly. You too are likely to have it used one time or the other. This is how it is often loudly put: Funny enough, a governor leaving office on May 29 […]
Continue Reading“The evils that men do live after them…”- William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, in JULIUS CAESAR Outgoing President Buhari announced a few weeks ago that he might relocate to Niger Republic – if people disturb him too much in Daura. Since then, some commentators have assumed he was serious with the declaration; a few said he was […]
Continue ReadingSince he who asserts must prove, the onus is now on the Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle to provide evidence that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, demanded a bribe of $2 million from him. “It is not just to always blame governors. It is not only governors who have treasury, the federal government also has. What […]
Continue ReadingEven the most ardent supporter of the President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) must be happy to see him pack his nuisance and return to Daura (or Niger, wherever) come Monday. If there is a regime in this world on which the sun cannot set fast enough, it is Buhari’s. He rode into the presidency […]
Continue ReadingTurbulent anger of Obidients landed on Lamidi Apapa last week. By the time their anger petered out, Apapa had lost his cap to a God-knows-who. Esu Elegbara, the trickster deity of the Yoruba people, it will seem, lives in caps. Though most of the exploits of Esu exist in myths, Yoruba constructed a pantheon of […]
Continue ReadingHaving gone to London to watch the crowning of England’s King Charles III earlier this month, a friend joked last week, President Muhammadu Buhari extended his stay so his dentist could crown his teeth. That was how he read the line from the presidency that the General Buhari had stayed back in London for a dental […]
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