Indubitably over the years, the constituents of Idah Federal Constituency where I belong have been getting it wrong in the selection or rather election of representatives into the Green Chambers. At present, we have a […]
Hajj is a very tough journey, full of rites that demand patience, struggle and sacrifice. In simple term, Hajj is a stressful exercise. No wonder the reward is Paradise! Despite the fact that technology has […]
Ekiti State people decided who governs them in the next four years in a free and fair election held on Saturday July 14, 2018. More than 30 contestants featured in the election. Oshiomhole’s APC got […]
It is curious, even though not out of character, that discussions on the recently concluded governorship election in Ekiti State mainly centre on the winners and the losers. Of course, as it is with us, […]
The pastor of the Household of God International Ministries, Reverend Chris Okotie, has asked the 68 political parties, especially the two major ones, to roll over and adopt him as their consensus candidate in next […]
When the former Vice President and presidential hopeful on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, recently addressed the London’s Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), on the importance of strengthening […]
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau came to power in France in 1917. That was when the First World War was full blown. But how did the world war start? Very simple! Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was […]
If history is classified as truly the prerogative of the victor, then one concept likely to be revisited in the times ahead will be the vexatious “stomach infrastructure”. Ordinarily, the imagery evoked would perhaps not […]
Nigeria is a country witnessing many developments. In an era of many controversies, a positive aspect still appears in an obscure corner. Disposal of public assets can conform to due process and extant laws. An […]
After much pertinacious ballyhoo, conquistadorial rodomontade and political saber-rattling by the outgoing governor of Ekiti state, Mr. Ayodele Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he had his imprimatur audaciously stamped in the sun, […]
“When Fayose won in 2014, the whole of Ekiti erupted with joy. In 2018 the APC “won” and all the streets of Ekiti are looking so gloomy. The people are sad because their will has […]
One of the usual features on Nigerian social media is the nostalgic passion with which Nigerians often distribute pictures of the old Nigeria Airways and how that company once considered one of the best in […]
I started my independent life by training as a reputation manager, so I probably understand public perception management and behavioural effects in a manner that would escape a casual observer. Nigerians have a way of […]
In a previous piece on this subject (Notes on political alliances in Nigeria, July 4, 2018), I proposed that the following three broad objectives have propelled Leftist organisations, at home and abroad, to seek political […]
The resolution of three episodes of corruption between 1999 and 2005 in the federal legislature and the executive arm of government under the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo had initially indicated the seeming gravitas of that […]
A dozen boys, members of a youth football club with the intimidating name, The Wild Boars, ventured into the six-mile Tham Luang Cave. The cave is in the 1,275-kilometre long Doi Non Mountain Range in […]
If he had taken time to review recent history and incidents of insolence in the National Assembly, perhaps, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central) might not have embarked on his ill-fated rebellious voyage. However, he […]
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has been on been on the rooftop and won’t come down till long after Saturday. He has been screaming, for all the world to hear, that the ruling All Progressives […]
In two days, it will be one week after the online newspaper, Premium Times, published a story alleging that Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, may be in possession of a forged certificate of the […]
The moment is here again that we pause from the routine to address the raft of words or phrases that have crept treacherously into national conversation lately. By furnishing the content and context, the idea is to […]
Professor Adebayo Adedeji, the towering intellectual, scholar, pan-Africanist, international civil servant and pioneer Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations (1975 -1991) died on […]
The exculpation of senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, last Friday, by the Supreme Court in the false asset declaration suit filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) exemplifies the finality of […]
Yesterday I tweeted the following: “It is not good enough to say that you are leaving Buhari simply because he came after you. You stood with him when he murdered, detained, insulted, framed up, disgraced, […]
Life teaches us some prime lessons, which influence our skills of appreciation every day. We are often told, after dusk, comes dawn at day break; and after darkness, comes light, an indication of the interment […]
It is night in the mega city of Lagos, the city that never sleeps. It is Tuesday, July 3, 2018. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France, one of the world’s most powerful leaders, […]
Australia, Israel and the United States are countries of migrants, but they are also places that are dangerous for children, especially if they are not White. I am not referring to the common-place massacre of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari, the Apostle of Change in the country while signing the 2018 Budget in the sixth month of the year, told fellow countrymen that he was singing what amounted to a fraudulent bill. […]
Afghanistan, a country that has been at war with the Soviets, internally and with the Americans for thirty eight years is desperately in search of peace. A three-day Eid festival truce between the Taliban fighters […]
Almost all foundations floated by First Ladies are political gimmickry. They die as soon as their spouses leave office. But the staying power of the Leadership Empowerment And Resource Network (LEARN), its deepening commitment to […]
We may begin by recalling two key propositions that have so far emerged in the current discussions on the political responsibility of the Nigerian Left in this period. And, for clarity, by “this period” I […]
On June 20th, 2018, the Federal Government of Nigeria represented by the Special Assistant to the President on Justice Reforms, Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, disclosed the intention of the Federal Government of Nigeria to disburse the repatriated […]
With the nation half immersed in soccer opium and half yoked with another mass slaughter by the genocidal herders on the Plateau this past fortnight, two otherwise profound morality tales would appear to have completely […]
Here, I am making this particular call on my Nigerian Christian compatriots. I want them to see the truth in the unity of Nigeria, unlike ever before. I make this call out of patriotism with […]
Have you ever wondered what happened to Naij.com – the popular online news platform? Buhari happened to it. During the whirling of the IPOB turbulence, Naij.com published rare exclusive reports on Nnamdi Kanu. The reports […]
Dear Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, Federal Republic of Nigeria. I write this in respect to your Ministry’s apparent disobedience to a straightforward court order for my reinstatement and payment of remuneration after […]
The late business mogul, philanthropist and winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, put his nose to the grindstone to be president of Nigeria. Abiola was almost stepping in […]
Sometime in the 1970s, the Juju music maestro, then known as Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, did a track wherein a line lamented the cheapness of death in the country. The line “iku di meji epinni,” […]
Let every adult find a group willing to make a statement condemning violence, kidnapping, bad governance, etc and then provide logical, sensible, practical, workable transformational solutions for the way forward; including offer of self for […]
Two existential issues -security and poverty-that bear great relevance to the assessment of performance of governments globally reared their heads back-to-back, in the last one week, in Nigeria. Both issues were so tangible that they […]
They struck again in two different parts of the country on different turfs. In Plateau, the bloody revenge mission by Miyetti Allah for the right of passage for cows left at least 100 dead. In […]
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