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The most significant defence former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, put up on why his name featured on the Pandora Papers —another round of private financial dealings expose that confirms how the rich and powerful people worldwide take care of themselves— is that the transitional process that brought him to office was a hurried one. […]
Continue ReadingBefore the mania of “rotational presidency” or “power shift” or similar platitudes seizes the air as a prelude to the 2023 elections, let us refute the myth of something called a “northern” or “southern” president in Nigeria. The term is a misnomer, a parody of ownership of power in the country’s rigidly hierarchical political structure. […]
Continue ReadingThe United Bank for Africa recently “named and shamed” three forex defaulters by publishing their names on the bank’s website. The first two people on the list were said to have cancelled their trips but failed to return the Personal Travel Allowance availed them by the bank despite repeated correspondences by the bank agents. The […]
Continue ReadingThe press conference where the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, castigated abokifx.com was painfully pathetic. For a banker and economist, he was long on allegations and emotionalism and short on actual substance. Even though he stated that the information he had were “preliminary findings,” it was still woefully inchoate. Nothing he alleged translated into a […]
Continue ReadingThe Twitter ban in Nigeria by the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime has stretched for more than 100 days, and the issue still comes up mostly as a matter of economic loss. When we focus on how much money Nigeria has lost due to the ban, we risk overlooking the crucial aspect of the […]
Continue ReadingBarring last-minute considerations, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will arrive Owerri, the Imo State capital, today. If the officials of the Indigenous People of Biafra have their way with the sit-at-home order they asked the state residents to observe, it is possible that Buhari’s motorcade will drive through mostly emptied streets. Also, the […]
Continue ReadingLast Thursday, the Department of State Services issued a press statement to deny they dispersed doctors attending a recruitment for Nigerian doctors intending to migrate to Saudi Arabia. The denial was typical of the inelegant press releases the DSS churns out -a rambling word salad, full of feigned indignation, and signifying the characteristic ruse of […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the foremost military school, the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna, was attacked by supposed bandits. The media reported that those attackers killed two officers, abducted one, demanded a ransom of N200m for his release. Officially, he is still considered missing. Other details are still sketchy for now, but it seems that the attack […]
Continue ReadingUntil Tuesday, there were two media-muzzling bills before the National Assembly: one is the Act to amend the Nigerian Press Council Act 1992, and the other is the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission Amendment Bill. Properly speaking, both should have been aptly re-labelled “Decree 4.” Sponsored by one Olusegun Odebunmi representing Surulere/Ogoluwa Federal Constituency of Oyo State, […]
Continue ReadingIn May, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, was asked to clarify the statement he made nine years ago about the Fulani and their propensity to carry out maniacal violence against others. Rather than show that he had reflected on his injudicious remark and was ready to disclaim it, he doubled down. According to him, “The […]
Continue ReadingWatching Attorney-General of the Federation and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, slogging through a written speech to announce the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, I got the impression that this was a triumphalist moment for him and the regime he fronted. The Philistines have finally bagged Samson, and you […]
Continue ReadingBy the time you watched Information minister Lai Mohammed’s fume in the National Assembly on Tuesday where he had gone to defend the Twitter ban, you would conclude that these people neither have solutions to Nigeria’s problems nor the imagination to conjure any. Mohammed expectedly regurgitated his ear-grating tale about the evils of social media, […]
Continue ReadingThe history of religion is full of upstarts who started out making dubious claims of divine revelation but ended up shaping history in profound ways. The late Prophet TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) was one. I have severely criticised him in the past for some of his practices, and I […]
Continue ReadingUntil recently, I had believed that the biggest threat to Nigeria’s corporate existence was hunger. Following the shenanigans of the past week when the regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) banned Twitter because he got his feathers ruffled, I concluded that the trouble with Nigeria is that our leaders are a collective of anti-social […]
Continue ReadingThe so-called investigation by the Nigeria Police Force over the assassination of former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, is highly unsatisfying. Their synopsis of what transpired is riddled with so many holes and hardly sensible. The NPF’s reports are customarily frustrating to read. They are habitually riddled with typos and flawed logic. Read their statement describing […]
Continue ReadingLast Friday, the Nigeria Police paraded Uduak Akpan, the suspected killer of Iniubong Umoren -a young female jobseeker who he had lured with a fake job- before journalists. Hours after that press conference, almost all the media accounts were sensational reports of what the alleged killer had said. That was very wrong. Some of those […]
Continue ReadingFor the second time within a month, Bishop David Oyedepo preached against COVID-19 vaccines in his church. He said he would not take the vaccine, and he warned people against taking it too. On Sunday, at his church 40th anniversary, he again cautioned his congregation not to take the vaccine and that nobody can enforce […]
Continue ReadingAfter Nigerians criticised the National Broadcasting Commission for trying to strong-arm the television station, Channels TV, over their interview with the spokesperson for the Independent People of Biafra, Emma Powerful, a more contrite version of them addressed the public to clarify that they merely warned Channels TV to “check their excesses.” They said since the IPOB organisation had been […]
Continue ReadingLast Thursday saw the gathering of certain personalities for the presentation of Aisha Buhari: Being Different, a book about First Lady Aisha Buhari. The biography —or more appropriately, hagiography —was written by Senior Special Adviser to the President on Women Affairs and Administration, Hajo Sani. Comprising a mere 46 pages broken into ten chapters, it barely […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Bola Tinubu, commended Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, for his efforts in strengthening anti-corruption institutions. The efforts, of course, were tied to the office building of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Ganduje renovated. Tinubu went on to state that “in ensuring Nigeria becomes a […]
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