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Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of United States, US, soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 an additional information was that 200 American soldiers areA being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a thousand US soldiers to […]
Continue ReadingEarly morning Sunday, December 7, 2025, while many Beninois slept, hoping to go to church, mosque and traditional places of worship at dawn, some members of their armed forces fanned out. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Paschal Tigri, they planned to bring the people under their claws. At 05:00 they attacked the Presidential Palace and then retreated […]
Continue ReadingThere are intense discussions going on in Nigeria. Is the United States of America, USA preparing to attack? If it is, what are the targets? A Government increasingly incapable of securing lives and property? The people, so terrified that they self-impose movement restrictions? Terrorists roaming around the country? Bandits, building empires and imposing peace conditions […]
Continue ReadingThe bazaar of partisan politics is in open swing. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which has been attracting opposition politicians to itself like magnet, held its National Summit on May 22, 2025 inside the Aso Rock Presidential Palace. The venue is symbolic of the President’s powers and could not be a conducive atmosphere for free debates […]
Continue ReadingIt will be fallacious to say the military taught Nigerians how to steal. In truth, stealing maybe as old as humanity itself. In fact, stealing is so old that it features in the Ten Commandments God reportedly gave humanity: ‘Thou Shall Not Steal’. However, while the politicians who stole before military rule commenced in Nigeria, were petty […]
Continue ReadingThe ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is in a celebratory mood as more politicians defect, depleting the ranks of the rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In what was like a tsunami in Delta State, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa and their political appointees, defected. However, such defections are not unexpected as the ruling […]
Continue ReadingAdelabu Adegoke was one of the most flamboyant and charismatic politicians in pre-independence Nigeria. When one day, the press asked him about deliberations in the Western Region House of Assembly, he replied that it was a “peculiar mess”. He pronounced the words with a Yoruba intonation making the two words sound like “Penkelemesi”. So, his […]
Continue ReadingHeart surgeon, Masoud Pezeshkian, was sworn-in as President of Iran on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. His primary concern seemed to be about lifting the unilateral sanctions the United States, US, had imposed on his country. Reviving the economy is fundamental for the citizenry and the sure way of winning their hearts. However, he would have been […]
Continue ReadingThe firestorm among some Christian leaders in Western Nigeria over the lyrics of a new song by Gospel artist, Tope Alabi, is in its fourth week. She had sang in Yoruba that she is “Aboru Aboye” which translates to “I am a sacrifice which God has accepted.” This caused an uproar with some Christian leaders accusing her […]
Continue ReadingSunday, September 19, like past Sundays in the Canary Islands, promised to be a quiet, restful day. It was also a day of Christian worship. But beneath the earth of La Palma on the islands, rocks had been pulverised and turned into molten. That afternoon, the lava sprouted into the air, triggering off volcanic eruptions, […]
Continue ReadingIbrahim Badamosi Babangida, retired general and former military Head of State will turn 80 tomorrow, Tuesday, August 17. I congratulate him primarily because I also pray to grow old. But I do not pray that in my old age my children will organise gatherings where people will try to whitewash my deeds. One of such […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim, also known as Pantami, is busy fighting off those who accuse him of holding extreme Islamic views. He seemed particularly frightened by claims that the United States of America, USA, sees him as an extremist. I laugh at this because America is, in fact, […]
Continue ReadingThe first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his […]
Continue ReadingI first met Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala during the Obasanjo administration, at a conference organised by the newly emergent Due Process Office headed by Mrs. Obiageli (Oby) Katryn Ezekwesili. Okonjo-Iweala was minister of finance, so I asked her how much oil Nigeria was producing daily. The conference chairman, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai (now governor of Kaduna State) […]
Continue ReadingTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Ethiopian microbiologist who heads the World Health Organisation (WHO) is simultaneously engaged in perhaps the two biggest battles of his 55 years on earth. He is leading humanity’s fight against the treacherous COVID-19 virus, and a battle to remain in office against the expressed wishes of the United States of America […]
Continue ReadingRevolution came to Egypt in the Free Officers uniform of Abdel Gamal Nasser, reversal in the turncoat of Anwar Sadat’s crass opportunism and its betrayal in the garb of Hosni Mubarak’s autocracy. The threesome ruled Egypt for fifty-five years all together. Nasser, for fourteen tumultuous years from 1956, during which the country underwent fundamental socio-cultural changes, withstood […]
Continue ReadingWhen I was a boy, magic was associated with what the adults called ‘American Wonder.’ The United States of American (U.S.A) was a wonder to that generation and it was believed that it was a country of anything goes. That America could change white into blue or insist that white is actually blue. That was […]
Continue ReadingShe is young. Her dressing gives the impression of a religious-minded lady. She is identified, or identified herself by forty two different names. But her real name is unknown. It might not be impossible that amongst the 42 names, is buried her true name. On the other hand, she might have been too smart to […]
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