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In the past 10 months, Karma has dealt with young Nigerians allegedly involved in transnational crimes. In August 2019, Obinwanne George Okeke, aka Invictus Obi, was arrested in Virginia by the FBI over an alleged $11 million fraud. Three weeks later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested another 14 Nigerians and indicted 57 others who […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, and his colleagues urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) “to issue an Executive Order for all streets, gardens and notable areas named after colonial masters or beneficiaries of slave trade be changed all around the country.” They also resolved to call on […]
Continue ReadingLast week Wednesday, the police announced that they had arrested and detained the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Coalition of Northern Groups, Nastura Sharif, one of the masterminds of the protests against the spate of killings ongoing in northern Nigeria. We do not know his offence. One can only connect his arrest with the […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, the Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, rued the recent death of his Deputy Chief of Staff, Mikhail Jare Adebisi. In eulogising the deceased, the governor said, “We would have flown out Adebisi for treatment, but for the COVID-19 pandemic.” The startling lack of irony with which the tone-deaf governor declared what they […]
Continue ReadingLately, a federal lawmaker from Borno State, Ahmed Jaha, walked back his comments that women who wanted to avoid being raped should learn to dress decently because — and this is according to him — “men are not wood.” The comments were reportedly made during a plenary session while the House of Representatives members deliberated […]
Continue ReadingThe untoward death of Vera “Uwa” Uwaila Omozuwa, cuts deeply. In recent times, there have been incidences of violence but the circumstances of her death make this one saddening and entirely enraging. According to reports, Uwa was studying in the church when the gruesome assault happened. For now, there is not much information to go by, […]
Continue ReadingWhen the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, reacted to the allegations of corruption levelled against him, he added a touch of flippancy to the schtick. During a live Instagram interview with the publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, Obasa brazenly stated, “money is meant to be spent.” The rest of his […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Kaduna State Police Command demonstrated probably their swiftest response to any petition ever when they arrested self-professed atheist and president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, Mubarak Bala, over his Facebook posts that mocked certain religious truths. The petition to the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Habu Sani, was signed by one […]
Continue ReadingOrdinarily, one should ignore the director of Muslim Rights Congress, Prof Ishaq Akintola. His predilection for inciting controversy via religious conspiracy, mostly for its own sake, makes him a public nuisance. However, we have been Nigerians for long enough to know religious matters easily escalate. Besides, inflammatory words thrown around amidst a pandemic can gain […]
Continue ReadingLess than a year ago, we were told that Nigeria had achieved food security. According to reports at the time, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) based his directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop providing foreign exchange for the importation of food on that supposed milestone. For a country to be […]
Continue ReadingWhen Nigeria announced a lockdown of parts of the country in late March, people rightly questioned the possibility of surviving a lockdown in a country where the most basic infrastructure was missing. How do you remain indoors without a guaranteed supply of electricity, food, security, and even WI-FI? At least in the countries where the […]
Continue ReadingIn the past few days, I have watched several videos of my former pastor, Chris Oyakhilome, rehashing conspiracy theories that linked 5G technology with COVID-19. It has been a deeply embarrassing experience for me, watching him talk so confidently about what he has not even tried to understand. Oyakhilome’s church, Christ Embassy, has many upwardly mobile […]
Continue ReadingAmong the many different Nigerian interpretations of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, I have extracted three. First is the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, who claimed God allowed the disease to afflict the human race “only to redirect our steps back to Him.” He urged us to beg God for forgiveness to end […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the news broke that the Chief of Staff to the Nigerian president, Abba Kyari, tested positive for COVID-19. Three of his aides reportedly also tested positive. Same Tuesday, it was announced that the Bauchi State governor, Sen. Bala Mohammed, also tested positive. Then, there is the son of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, while in the Aso Rock Villa, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State tweeted photos of himself and the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), perusing still images from the Abule Ado explosion. Vexed by the scene, many Nigerians responded that Buhari should have visited the explosion site and not be served photos from […]
Continue ReadingEmir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, was finally dethroned for insubordination to the political authorities in Kano State. It was not an altogether surprising development. Sanusi has both been outspoken and arrogant. He could not have survived the ultra-conservative ideology of the northern aristocracy nor conform to their willful blindness, even as their leadership shortcomings turned […]
Continue ReadingBy the time the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, first claimed that the deadly coronavirus disease was caused by corruption, I had long concluded that his dimness was genuine. In 2018, Channels TV host, Maupe Ogun-Yusuf, asked him during an interview about building formidable structures to institutionalise his agency’s supposed fight […]
Continue ReadingOn Thursday last week, a bill that purports to de-radicalise and re-integrate ‘repentant’ Boko Haram terrorists into society passed its first reading in the Senate. The bill was sponsored by the APC Senator representing Yobe East Senatorial District, Ibrahim Gaidam. According to Gaidam, the proposed agency would provide rehabilitative education and social re-integration for Boko Haram fighters […]
Continue ReadingYears back, a friend who had worked on the 2011 Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) presidential campaign told me about the overly enthusiastic responses they had received in the North. In one instance, he said Buhari’s horde of supporters had not only swarmed the airport where their campaign aircraft was to land, they also practically […]
Continue ReadingBeginning from last Saturday, Lagos State placed a ban on commercial motorcycles (okada) and tricycles (keke) in 15 local government areas. The development has further impeded movement around Lagos, a city already plagued with some of the worst traffic gridlock in the world. With the perennial issues of congestion and mobility, Governor Jide Sanwo-Olu faces […]
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