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Last week, at a private event in Lagos, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, ruffled elitist feathers when he laid out the blueprint for the possible defeat of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political hegemony over Lagos State. The response might seem unrehearsed but knowing politicians and the extent to which they overreach when they play […]
Continue ReadingOne of the cheering news that came from the Nigeria Police Force last week was the redeployment of its head of the Complaint Response Unit, Assistant Commissioner of Police Abayomi Shogunle, to a rural region of the country. With any luck, Shogunle finding himself without a Twitter soapbox will restrain him from doing further harm […]
Continue ReadingSince he became the Chief of Army Staff, a pattern of narcissism has followed the pronouncements and actions of Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai. Even the military under him comes up with funny ideas such as setting up zoos and parks in barracks, establishing cattle ranches, and producing military vehicles. Buratai’s latest offering is the […]
Continue ReadingThe Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, responded to the issue of the suspension of student union activities in the institution and his article turned out to be more revealing of him and his style of administration than he probably intended. The piece was supposed to be his side of the story, […]
Continue ReadingThere is a growing category of Nigerian writing that is quite illuminating of contemporary ethical character. The writings are largely the works of elite Nigerians who ventured into the political terrain, got burned by the unpleasant realities of Nigerian electoral processes and returned to share their experiences. These writers are relatively new entrants into the […]
Continue ReadingOn Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria visited President Muhammadu Buhari to congratulate him on his re-election. During their visit, they urged the President to observe religious balance in the composition of his cabinet in his second term. They also requested that, for the 9th National Assembly, either the Senate President or Speaker of the […]
Continue ReadingSuccess Adegor is the latest face of Nigeria’s poverty-porn, a tale that excites as much as it outrages. Success became a sensation, the Nigerian Malala Yousafzai who wanted to risk flogging so that she does not miss a Mathematics examination. Her story – and that of other viral Nigerians – is relevant for evaluating the […]
Continue ReadingIn recent political commentaries, there is a tendency to dismiss the need for integrity from our leaders. Now and then, someone analyses the Nigerian social situation and concludes that what we need is not a leader with integrity, but competence, as if the two are mutually exclusive. I can sympathise if Nigerians are already cynical […]
Continue ReadingShortly after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in in 2015, I visited an elderly man, and we got talking about the country. Readers will recall that the first three months after Buhari became President, there was such stable power supply in many parts of Nigeria that it spawned the myth that it was indeed the […]
Continue ReadingShortly after the first set of results in the presidential election emerged and it turned out that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had received a shellacking at his polling unit at the Victoria Garden City, a prime neigbourhood in Lagos, I saw a rash of messages circulated on social media that quickly attributed his loss to […]
Continue ReadingOne of the indelible memories of the period of Nigeria’s return to democracy firmly etched in my mind was the 1999 Peoples Democratic Party primary election in Jos, Plateau State. I still recall, distinctly, how the votes were counted and broadcast on live TV. Everyone who stayed awake through the night endured the voice of […]
Continue ReadingIt seems that for President Muhammadu Buhari, there appears to be one solution to national problem: more of it. Is Nigeria facing the challenge of financial corruption? The approach is not to understand corruption as a primal behaviour that will be inevitably unleashed on any society whose social and political mechanisms operate with loose nuts […]
Continue ReadingNow and then, a Nigerian leader raises the issue of our population problem but somehow, it slides without a sustained discussion. In June 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan hinted the possibility of birth control legislation. He drew the ire of people who waved their religion as the reason they would reproduce as they wished. That retort […]
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