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Happy New Year, Nigeria! According to the calendar of the Federal Government, insecurity is now ‘over.’ Following seven years’ worth of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd) meetings with security chiefs, various and persistent directives and orders, repeated budgetary provisions and outlays, declarations of intent and ambition, speeches at home and abroad, expensive orders of […]
Continue ReadingNigerians are a very impatient people. Our hunger for instant outcomes should have made us the nation that invented the microwave oven. But our impatience is directed at other ends. We can at least content ourselves with the many unusual things that we have reinvented and perfected our instincts in, namely, politics and religion. Politics […]
Continue ReadingVeteran journalist and expert in the English Language, Seth Akintoye, has sparked a debate over the expression, ‘Happy New Year in advance’. In a Facebook post, he argues that it is erroneous. His grouse is that while ‘Happy New Year’ is the correct and universal expression, ‘in advance’ is a needless Nigerian creation. He puts […]
Continue ReadingIt is ironic that even though 2022 is the year that has given Nigerians the greatest scare financially and security-wise, it is also the year that has given Nigerians the greatest hope since the return of democracy in 1999. It is the year that renewed the hope of Nigerians in the possibility of Nigeria experiencing […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday night presidential media aide released a statement to relay a Christmas Day event at the presidential villa. The otherwise routine release stated that the President, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), hosted the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mohammed Bello, and some residents of the nation’s capital. The statement contained the now tiring rant about […]
Continue ReadingNothing speaks better to a time like this than the message embedded in ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’. Particularly in the Southeast. I have deployed the 18th century poem by German writer and politician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe several times on this page. It tells a compelling story that begins as an old sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving an apprentice with chores to perform. The apprentice, who had apparently observed his master at work, enchants a […]
Continue ReadingThe US–African summit has come and gone. The US President, Joe Biden, and a group of US business leaders met with 49 African presidents and many business stakeholders. He made promises to improve the US bilateral and multilateral relations with Africa. He has spent much of his first two years in office trying to assuage […]
Continue ReadingBy this time next week, the year 2022 would have ended, and across the world people will speak of a new year with fresh expectations but when we look back on the year that is about to pass, in terms of achievements, high points, successes, failures and experiences, it would be recalled that the year […]
Continue ReadingIf the general election holds in February next year, one of three people will be declared president: APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu, PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, or Labor Party’s Peter Obi. Only a natural disaster, such as death, can change that reality. There is no foretoken of indications at the moment that can reveal with certainty which […]
Continue ReadingIf you read God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican, you would have a whiff of understanding of the battle that assails and the nature of the assailants of Godwin Emefiele, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor. God’s Bankers, written by Gerald Posner, is an expose on the Papacy and the […]
Continue ReadingThere is a trending video of a senile Paul Biya, President of Cameroon, at the just concluded US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC. He is called to deliver his speech after President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. He comes out, sits down and starts browsing aimlessly through a pamphlet he is holding. He mutters some words […]
Continue ReadingWith still two months before the 2023 landmark presidential election in Nigeria, a string of pollsters has consistently put Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party in the lead, generating excitement and condemnation on different sides of the political divide. For those who celebrate these pre-election polls, Mr. Obi’s consistent lead aptly captures the current […]
Continue ReadingToday, most Nigerians have become cynical about conferences, seminars, committees, commissions and so on, because it is generally perceived that these initiatives are largely a distraction from the main problems of our dear country. There are two classes of respondents to these events. The first are those who believe that governments do not have the […]
Continue ReadingWhen you are told there is a problem, what is your response? There is the “ntor” corner that will usually gloat: we told you so, we warned you, serves you right, etcetera. There is the corner that amplifies the problem with the help of innovative superlatives and unrivalled adjectives. In another corner, they are more […]
Continue ReadingI do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it,” wrote Evelyn Beatrice Hall in her summary of Voltaire’s view on freedom of speech. This is the foundation upon which the right of the media stands. Dictators and despots hate the right to free […]
Continue ReadingBy nature, development ‘belongs to those who know it, not those who have it or can buy it.’ It is like a picture, which one keeps working on. Parochialism, on the other hand, is a cultural entrapment. It is evil! With it at work, extant philosophies are laced with the cultural sentiment that a people […]
Continue ReadingIf you thought that the characteristic display of sloppiness, laxity, and an outright lack of acumen by the Department of State Services can no longer embarrass you, then you should read the submission of the judge that refused to grant their prayer to arrest and detain the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor over alleged terrorism […]
Continue ReadingPractically everyone that holds any political power in Nigeria as president, governor, local government chairman, legislator, minister, state commissioner, councillor, board member of any parastatal or government-owned enterprise, or political party official, is in a conspiracy against citizens of Nigeria. Elite consensus in Nigeria is actually an elite conspiracy against the interest of the poor […]
Continue ReadingNigeria leader Muhammadu Buhari turned 80 yesterday. The older and richer he has grown, the less respected and influential he also has become, and the greater the efforts required to sustain his desired image as a “successful” leader. For instance, Senate leader Ahmad Lawan, in a birthday message, told Buhari that millions of Nigerians are “inspired” by the […]
Continue ReadingThe editorial board of THISDAY newspaper on Monday hosted the flagbearer of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi in continuation of our presidential dialogue series. After the session, we all came out for group photograph, just as we did when we hosted the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in […]
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