Just like a pendulum which swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, the chairmanship position of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has been...
Rape is a moral crime in every decent society. Raping any woman is morally repugnant and no reason can ever be adduced to atone for the...
D’Banj is my friend and we have spent so many beautiful moments together. Last time, I was with him in his then Lekki house, he asked...
These are obviously not the best times for Nigeria and Nigerians. The pervasive state of anomie doesn’t give room for any form of joy or smile...
This year, there was some feeling of nostalgia about May 29 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day. When a few persons called me to ask if there were...
Penultimate week the ‘powerful’ news went viral online eliciting concerns already expressed by concerned Nigerians to the effect that President Muhammadu Buhari does not have his...
Everybody around me, including majority of the people on The Duke Summit have given up on this Nigeria. But I will be carrying my big head...
There is no denying the fact that Nigeria has a rape culture. Virtually everyday, women and girls of various ages are under threat of being abused...
Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), escaped the axe by the gators last week. He was nearly fired. The EFCC...
All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the cusp of an implosion. The crisis in the party has reached a frightening crescendo. It has been a gradual...
The widow of the expired military kleptocrat, Gen. Sani Abacha, Maryam, recently ‘resurrected’ from many years of political wilderness by going public on the billions of...
The gruesome murder of George Floyd, an African American, while handcuffed and pinned to the ground by the knee of Derek Chauvin, a white police officer,...
This year’s Democracy Day celebration seems to have given birth to another “beautiful bride” in the nation’s political space as political parties continue to woo Governor...
Rural settlements in Nigeria used to be one of the safest and the most peaceful places to live. Such that, you feel safe to mingle with...
Color line was created in the 1600 by laws in Virginia to divide and conquer people along the “racial” line. It may have been shattered or...
The Nigerian national constitution gives ‘dictatorial’ powers to not only the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic but generously to the...
One of the many contraptions that have defied contrivance and evolution in Nigeria is our politics. We still practise the basest, vilest and crudest kind of...
Retired Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, the former military Administrator of old Kaduna State was lucid, diplomatic and patriotic in a recent memo, nay open letter, he...
While the government continue to combat the global pandemic which has claimed the lives of over 400, 000 people worldwide and more than 300 in Nigeria,...
Just waking up to figures showing plus 12,000 infection rate and a plus 300 death rate throwing me back into the effective panic I found myself...
The Nigerian reggae superstar, Majekodunmi Fasheke, better known as Majek Fashek, died recently in New York, USA, in his sleep. Though the cause of death was...
If the news of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday 3rd June 2020, denying ever writing any letter for...
If there is a sector in storming water, it is the oil and gas where the pandemic wrought shocking havoc. Top officials throughout month of April...
The cavalcade of insecurities and maelstrom of emotions presently wrenching every corner of Northern Nigeria is frightfully execrable. The region has sunk steeply into the abyss...
The recent current of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US has surged tremendously in Nigeria – a country in the thrall of its own unique kind...
The United Sates of America is doubtlessly a great nation that is unique in many ways. She has a unique President named Donald Trump(et). I call...
While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national life which require equal...
The consensus around the world is that the lessons from the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) would provoke commonsense among Nigerian leaders to harness the full potential of...
The pressing problem most African families are dealing with at home and abroad is how to ameliorate the hidden and open attacks against them by constituted...
In everything in life there is positive and negative sides. The positive side of our existence individually could be said to be when we were born....
Today officially marks 5 years of General Buhari’s in power, and I would have allowed this day of infamy to go by but for the slanderous...
One of the five cardinal objectives of the United States foreign policy is ‘’promoting and supporting’’ democracy. The US has fought wars and spent billions of...
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, government has continue to roll out different palliative measures in order to cushion the effect of the hardship occasioned by the...
I was awakened this morning by a post. The person had announced gleefully that the Naira was on a free fall having dropped to N500 in...
The Buhari administration did not prime itself for leadership but for power. The regime has titillated more attention from controversies stoked by internecine scrimmages than from...
Quite unlike the richest woman in Africa, Isabel Dos Santos, who was at the center of ‘Luanda Leaks’, now facing fraud charges in Angola with her...
The primacy of the media in any society is indubitable. The media is the iron curtain between tyranny and democracy. It is the bastion of the...
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” – Frantz Fanon “On April 29, 1945, Italians found the executed...
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the entire world – the future of everything and the world of work, but perhaps the most visible effect of this...
While it is commendable that those in power and outside the power corridor have finally realized the potential threat pose by the army of almajirai to...
Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections are billed to hold in Nigeria in 2023, in line with constitutional...
President Muhammadu Buhari recently appointed Prof. Ibrahim ‘Agboola’ Gambari, former Foreign Affairs Minister during the Buhari/Idiagbon dictatorship of the early 80’s and career diplomat, as his...
Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, features in the pantheon of accomplished Nigerian journalists no doubt. In his days of ‘’truth-telling’’ and before the hex of unclean spirits...
As Israel celebrates the 72nd anniversary of its independence, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to simmer as neither side seems to have learned anything from their seven...
“Treacherous people do not last, only memories of their treason last.” – Amit Abraham, the founding Deputy Vice Chancellor at the Mount Zion International University of...
The 9th Imo State House of Assembly led by Rt. Hon Chiji Collins, representing Isiala Mbano State Constituency, was inaugurated in June 2019 by former Governor...
The Board of Governors and the Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank (AfDB) have given Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the Bank’s President, a clean bill of...
The latest controversial bill in the chronicle of the 9th National Assembly on the pretext of proffering measures to curtail the spread of infectious diseases such...
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audrey Lorde “Do not set yourself on fire...
If the gods want to punish a people, they either invoke plagues on the land or deploy agents of slaughter as leaders. The gods are not...
