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On Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, the judge presiding over the “treasonable felony” case of Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow, expressed concern that Sowore and his co-accused person had not perfected their bail conditions of October 4. Justice Ojukwu, who had initially set Sowore’s bond at an unattainable N100m, slashed it to N50m. Olawale Bakare (aka […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari built his brand on three myths: self-discipline, fiscal discipline, and military discipline. These myths became the national millstone when fate dealt Nigeria a diseased hand during the night of December 31, 1983 and ushered in Buhari into the presidency until August 1985. His quicksand morality has been an ever-present conundrum. From his […]
Continue ReadingThe past two weeks were most humiliating for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He was systematically denuded of the power due to his office, and reduced to “VP Academics” in the eyes of the public. He is now seen as consigned to running the official errands that require putting a debonair face to otherwise unpleasant tasks. […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, supporters of former President Goodluck Jonathan came up with a funny idea while mocking the travails of SaharaReporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, who is presently in the Department of State Services’ gulag for, among other attributed sins, insulting President Muhammadu Buhari. According to them, Sowore had it coming because his criticisms of Jonathan promoted […]
Continue ReadingA chain of events in the past one week gave me pause about this unpopular government and an agenda it is executing at our expense. It happened that the co-founder of BudgIT, an NGO that advocates fiscal transparency, Seun Onigbinde, had taken an appointment as a Technical Adviser to the Minister of State for Budget […]
Continue ReadingAnother politician, this time, the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has a new book out titled, “Burden of Service: Reminiscences of Nigeria’s former Attorney General.” Typical of these publications, the media houses get advance copies and publish some of their most controversial contents to stimulate audience interest ahead of […]
Continue ReadingDuring the meeting of world leaders at Paris, President of the African Development Bank and former Agriculture Minister, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, trended on the social media. He had been pictured with different world leaders at the G7 meeting, and before he knew it, Nigerians declared him a presidential material. They were not merely superficial, mind […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, while granting an interview with a television station, presidential media aide, Garba Shehu, remarked on the case of the 77 Nigerians recently indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States of America. He promised that Nigeria would extradite them if necessary, and that it was important their crimes do not […]
Continue ReadingThe present times in Nigeria have lately been compared to the days of the dark-goggled general, Sani Abacha. Part of what the folk making the comparison are wondering is how we crawled ourselves back into the hole we thought we escaped. So, here is a quick backward glance on the road that brought us here. […]
Continue ReadingIn July, a group of musicians/artistes took their peaceful protest to the Redemption Camp where they challenged the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to speak up on raging issues. The artistes prodded Adeboye to use his globally acknowledged influence to speak on the security situation in the country, […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, security agents not only crippled the #RevolutionNow protests against government ineptitude by deploying all the armed forces to the venue, in Lagos, but also declared such repressive behaviour a “democratic victory”. The irony of that assertion hits one hard. No thanks to alternative facts such as this one, Nigeria these days sometimes feels […]
Continue ReadingYears ago, I read about a man who worked as a night soil man. When he found that his son was ashamed of his lowly occupation, he had to explain to the kid that there was dignity in labour. Besides, someone has to clean up after the city and its occupants. The fact that he […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday in Abuja, I attended the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly church and ended up with some sensation. My quest was a purely academic one. I study Pentecostalism and Pentecostal culture, and I traverse different churches everywhere to see if the observations that I make about trends and practices are generalisable across the spectrum. So, […]
Continue ReadingA weekly columnist with Punch newspaper, Abimbola Adelakun, is allegedly being held at the Abuja branch of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA. According to her friends, Abimbola Adelakun went to the church on Sunday morning to carry out further investigations on COZA’s senior pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo who is currently enmeshed in an alleged rape […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, spoke at the Northern Youth Summit organised to deliberate on developing northern Nigeria. He painted a picture of Nigeria’s defective growth and development. El-Rufai said two countries presently inhabit the womb of Nigeria and while northern Nigeria ranks the same as war-torn Afghanistan, southern Nigeria is “developing.” His […]
Continue ReadingAt a town hall meeting with Nigerians in New York on Sunday evening, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was asked about the security situation in Nigeria. He responded that although there were actual incidents, the stories of violence and insecurity have been wildly exaggerated. He blamed the social media for its propensity to galvanise e-troops who […]
Continue ReadingLast week Tuesday, the Federal Government’s Twitter handle shared photos of the new Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, kneeling to greet President Muhammadu Buhari during the visit of the recently elected leaders of the ninth National Assembly to Aso Rock. Given the spate of events that led to the emergence of the ninth Assembly, […]
Continue ReadingTwo days ago, the Ninth National Assembly elected its leadership. The elation of the crowd on television should have been tempered by the knowledge that a whopping N4.8bn will be expended on this newly inaugurated club of spendthrifts as “Welcome Package.” Despite these new National Assembly members hawking the usual platitudes about democracy, growth, and […]
Continue ReadingLast week, some 29 governors were inaugurated throughout Nigeria. As expected, most made policy announcements that I believe foretell the direction their governments will take. From the populist to the controversial, one could tell from those decisions which of the governors has the right grasp on issues and which one is still fiddling with the […]
Continue ReadingSome 48 hours to his second term inauguration, the Nigerian Television Authority aired an interview with President Muhammadu Buhari. After almost serving out an entire term ignoring the local media, the President finally granted a token interview where they not only set him up in a congenial atmosphere with the state-run media, the interviewer too, […]
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