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No one in Nigeria was surprised that on a day we woke up to suicide bombings, suffocating heat, high fuel prices, and widespread darkness worsened by inflation, President Bola Tinubu chose to travel to the United Kingdom to attend a ‘royal fanfare.’ This is the deeper problem Nigeria faces: a leadership detached from lived reality, […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Ekiti State Chapter of the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) – a body I once served as pioneer Administrative Secretary – gathered in Ado-Ekiti for a colloquium marking former Governor Kayode Fayemi’s 61st birthday. Beyond the celebration, the event was a platform to advance President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s vision and drum up support […]
Continue ReadingSheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi (1924 –1992) was shocked when he got to Mecca for the first time in 1955 and discovered that the city had no streetlights. Sheikh Gumi was an Islamic scholar and Grand Khadi of the Northern Region from 1962 to 1967. He was the father of Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, the man […]
Continue ReadingOne reason many Nigerians voted for the All Progressives Congress (APC) was its manifesto commitment to laying the foundation for a Nordic-Scandinavian and German-style social market economy. This is a model that promises a blend of economic efficiency and social welfare that appeals to the aspirations of a more equitable society. A social market economy […]
Continue Reading“I am a defector, my dictionary defines the act of defecting as ‘abandoning a person or a cause, apostacy, revolt, backsliding.’ Not to put too fine an edge on it, I am a traitor…” (Joseph Frolik in ‘The Frolik Defection: The Memoirs of an Intelligence Agent’). If in 2003 Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu did what […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said that we might be saying goodbye to Nigeria as a nation following recent trends in the country. Obasanjo said this on Saturday March 5, at the international symposium organised to mark his 85th birthday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The symposium […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has noted that the Northern region could soon become ‘Arewanistan’ (coined from Afghanistan) in view of the persistent killings going on in the region unabated. In his Christmas homily delivered on Saturday, titled, ‘A nation still in search of Truth and vindication,’ Kukah said: “In their […]
Continue ReadingOn the eve of the 2015 presidential election, this reporter had cause to write a dying minute column in this newspaper entitled: “A Call at Midnight”. It was a warning on the clear and present calamity awaiting the nation if the Jonathan administration mismanaged the election and its eventual outcome. At that point, there was […]
Continue ReadingThe week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015. Exactly a week ago, officers of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), acting under the instructions of their boss at the time, Lawal Daura, wearing hoods, stormed the […]
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