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On Tuesday, we learned from the National Bureau of Statistics that Nigeria’s unemployment rate had officially risen to 33.3 per cent, up from 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of last year. The figure was not entirely surprising, given the scale of regression Nigeria has witnessed in the past five years. Anyone who has […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, met Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) at State House, Abuja to be debriefed on his assignment as ECOWAS’ Head of Mission on the election in the Republic of Niger. Given an inconclusive first round in December, where none of the presidential candidates garnered above 50 per […]
Continue ReadingOn January 23, a truck belonging to Dangote Group rammed into a shopping complex in Akungba Akoko, around Adekunle Ajasin University. Media reports state that the truck’s brakes failed as it descended a hilly approach and used the complex as a stopgap. In one fell swoop, eight persons were dead. The scale of the disaster […]
Continue ReadingIf, by now, Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, has not categorically denied he told the Muslim bandits he has been meeting in recent times that their enemies are Christian “outsiders,” it means he said what he said, and he is not taking it back. Gumi has been garrulous since he gave himself the job of […]
Continue ReadingThere are at least two fundraising efforts ongoing for Sunday Igboho, now deemed a Yoruba freedom fighter. So far, one has garnered £43,024, raised out of its £100,000 goal while another one has raised about $4,000. A couple of weeks ago, when I got the links urging me to donate to those funds, I thought […]
Continue ReadingLast Monday, the seemingly intractable crisis between Fulani herdsmen and South-West inhabitants got some breakthrough when the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria gave in to the demands of governors. According to reports, following a meeting with some members of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, the National President of MACBAN, Alhaji Muhammadu Kiruwa, directed Fulani […]
Continue ReadingWhether feigned or genuine, people have been astounded at the invasion of the US Capitol by misguided supporters of President Donald Trump. Nothing about that incident jolted me. I had long expected Trump supporters to go rogue, and I sensed that from observing supporters of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Everything you need […]
Continue ReadingOn Christmas Day, Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Rev. Fr. Hassan Matthew Kukah, shared a homily in which he criticised the regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). In the message, Fr. Kukah summed Nigeria’s anomie from insecurity, the rising rate of poverty, and despondency enveloping the country. He concluded his message on a note […]
Continue ReadingLast week Thursday, a group of politicians converged at the presentation of a book about former President Goodluck Jonathan. While there was nothing quite out of the ordinary about the gathering, there was still an interesting moment where the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, went on a self-justificatory spree to explain why he removed the […]
Continue ReadingOn Friday, hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted in Kankara, a community in Katsina State. As of the time of writing this, more than 300 of those schoolchildren were still reportedly missing. This shameful development is a recrudescence of the 2014 Chibok girls’ abduction in the same Borno State. About 125 of those girls have yet […]
Continue ReadingThe news that the National Association of Nigerian Students had elected a 45-year-old Sunday Asefon as their new president, unsurprisingly, met with derision. Yes, I am quite aware that Asefon claims to be a decade younger than his putative age. Still, in a society where people already graduate from tertiary institutions at 20 years, a […]
Continue ReadingLast week Thursday, while at the fourth quarterly meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council in Abuja, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, delivered a damning verdict on the abject state of insecurity plaguing northern Nigeria. According to media reports, the Sultan specifically stated that the northern region was the worst place to live in […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, British lawmakers debated sanctioning Nigerian government officials involved in the attack on peaceful protesters at Lekki on October 20. The petition against the Nigerian government more than doubled the threshold of 100,000 signatures necessary for the lawmakers to attend to it, and they did speak to the issues. In their presentations, they explored […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the Nigeria Police Force cordoned off the road leading to the Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos, to prevent an #EndSARS meeting from happening. In a letter to Afrika Shrine’s operators, Lagos State Police Command warned against hosting a potentially volatile meeting at “this perilous time,” and that any consequent social destabilisation will “be tagged a […]
Continue ReadingIn the days since the Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden, was projected the winner of the 2020 presidential election, some of those who have been shamefaced are the American evangelical preachers that prophesied his victory. These preachers evidently did not learn from the 2016 experience of Pastor Temitope Joshua of the Synagogue Church of all […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, the Northern States’ Governors’ Forum expressed unqualified support for Aso Rock’s scheme to cudgel Nigeria’s social media ecosystem. This time, their ruse is “the devastating effect of the uncontrolled social media in spreading fake news.” They called “for major control mechanism and censorship of the social media practice in Nigeria.” The Northern governors’ […]
Continue ReadingThe days after Black Tuesday, that fateful day when soldiers committed atrocities at the Lekki tollgate, was the Apocalypse, the revealing of the vulnerability of our collective existence. As the artifices that have upheld our fragile civilisation ripped off, the reality of the horror that underpins our everyday existence was un-concealed. By Wednesday morning, law […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday afternoon, when the news first circulated that they were removing surveillance cameras from the Lekki toll gate and that the government could be up to some mischief, my first instinct was to dismiss the alarm. This was no longer 1983, and the state could not be so reckless they would unleash violence on […]
Continue ReadingToday is the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. Given the sheer indifference to this date that the people have exuded, it is hard to claim this as a joyful occasion. Nigerians are barely displaying any excitement at having come this far. Why should they? People are hungry and angry, and the gnawing precariousness of their […]
Continue ReadingWhen the latest brickbat exchange between pastors and Ifedayo Olarinde (aka Daddy Freeze) started, I simply wanted to watch how this round would play out differently from the last time. However, after reading the intervention of the senior pastor of Covenant Christian Centre, Pastor Poju Oyemade, where he made a case for respecting constituted authority, […]
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