Northern Nigeria being the most populous region in the country is blessed with abundant natural resources. From large uranium deposits, copper, tantalite and gold in the...
The scream was blood cuddling as the Judge dropped the sentence. He had proclaimed her guilty and decreed that she would die by hanging. She collapsed...
“You look so downcast. Everything okay? Cheer up, man. This one that you are looking as if a trailer just crushed your legs.” “I won’t deceive...
Pots of ink have been wasted posing and trying to find out who owns Lagos. Some of the answers have been: Nobody owns Lagos; Lagos is...
“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.” – John F. Kennedy. “Your...
Sustained controversy has trailed the establishment of the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), code-named Operation Amotekun by some South-Western states. Amotekun is grabbing national news headlines...
It bears repeating that Nigeria’s continued existence will be at risk if the rich and the wealthy are not receptive to the clear warning of anger...
In December 2018, Boko Haram insurgents pulled a blitzkrieg on military formations in Baga, Borno state, sacking the headquarters of the multinational joint task force and...
There are Africans that call for the return of their colonial masters that can be held responsible since African politicians are worse. So irresponsible, these politicians...
It is difficult to believe that it is over fifty years since the end of Nigeria Civil War, what with the scars and the wounds that...
Those who applaud the assassination of General Soleimani seem to simply equate him to a terrorist who certainly deserved to meet his fate. The question here...
Virtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized. So it is with Operation Amotekun: the Western Nigeria Security Network whose recent...
President Muhammadu Buhari deserves commendation for his new year pledge to reform Nigeria’s electoral process, but he should have gone further to admit that the exercise...
One of the draw backs of writing weekly column is that you will be struggling to keep abreast with developments. This is all the more herculean...
Nigeria is a tragedy “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common with unsuccessful men with talent....
There is no other continent that has contributed so much foreign investments to world development at the time of Peace and Wars than the African Continent....
The presidential family anywhere in the world are one of power, privilege and limitless opportunities. But Africa remains an exception, a ‘special’ case for reasons of...
First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in Sunday ThisDay of January 19, 2020. A lot has been written about the introduction of the region wide security...
Security is the principal obligation of government, because it is the most important need of man. Life is universally considered sacred, but only the lives of...
In my column article of January 6 – a riposte to Isa Funtua’s prejudiced utterance on the Igbo — I wrote: ‘’Funtua’s statement reeks of corpulent...
The level of apprehension, paranoia, and panic that has gripped the Arewa North since the inauguration of the Yoruba Regional Security Outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun (which...
Trump’s order to kill General Soleimani is one of the most reckless acts taken by a president, who once again has put his personal political interest...
It is pedestrian knowledge that socioeconomic problems which are the product of human actions and reactions are not static. They change with time and place. What...
“Òro se ni wò, ká lè m’eni tó fé ni.” – Yorùbá Aphorism Translation: “Be afflicted and know those who love you.” “Ká rìn gèrè, ká...
The governors of South West had recently established Amotekun, a regional security organization to protect the people of SW. Mr. Malami, the attorney General of the...
The church wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka is the most popular church in Nigeria today. It is one...
On January 1, President Muhammadu Buhari broke the new year revelry, with an appeal to all Nigerians. In an uncharacteristic manner, he chose to buy up...
When the opinion of one of the respected top politicians of the old era was sought concerning the overthrow of the government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari...
This was the screaming headline on Shaka Momodu’s last column published by Thisday last Thursday, a newspaper where he edits the very influential Sunday edition. The...
For many years, week after week, Shaka Momodu opens the sewers, and pours vitriol on President Muhammadu Buhari on the back page of This Day Newspapers....
Hypocrisy and sycophancy are part of the social problems associated with our decadent society. Apart from pretending shamelessly to ‘love’ God or Jesus Christ more than...
2019 was mute economically while very exciting on the political side. Inflation hit the double-digit mark, job losses were the order of the day and capacity...
The Buhari administration has given Nigerians a most unusual and disturbing New Year Gift, in the form of a proposed increase in electricity tariffs, enforceable from...
I have been married for about nine years now. My experience in my nearly a decade of being grafted to another being has taught me to...
The debate about the propriety or otherwise of celebrating Christmas is not new in the world. The Puritans of the 17th Century England, members of Jehovah...
Comrade Omoyele Sowore and retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki were, days prior to the Yuletide, released from the Department of State Security (DSS) gulag. Sowore had spent...
Once a dictator, as a military Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari sought democratic power, preaching change; and we embraced him, believing that nothing could be worse...
Permit me to indulge in this end-of-the-year humbug. I have read some prophecies for the year 2020 by men who arrogate to themselves the title ‘’man...
I never thought President Buhari cared about posterity or how he would be evaluated when he leaves office because his actions now betray any reflection on...
By Alfred Amadi…. President Muhammad’s Buhari on the 21st of August 2019 inaugurated a new Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, a designed...
The political climate is shifting. Actors are moving but you cannot just help but marvel at the timing. It is as if they all have an...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is one person who has felt the sting of the avarice of the national assembly. At different points, he described the institution...
President Muhammadu Buhari must no longer continue to betray the vision of #RevolutionNow, being the call for protest against bad governance in Nigeria by the renowned...
Nigeria is a country of so many ethnic nationalities and so has been striving to evolve a workable framework that harmonizes the often conflicting interests of...
Unless some drastic measures are taken, the various conflicts in the Middle East will become ever more intractable and exact a horrifying toll in blood and...
Jane Appleton Pierce, the wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States, is perhaps, most remembered as the ‘’calamity first lady’’. She spent her...
Sowore is not a terrorist, did not call for the breakup of the Country or threatened its existence as a religious or coup planner. He is...
Omoyele Sowore has finally etched his name into the annals of the struggle in this country. With the unfolding drama, he is beginning to gain the...
On June 12, 2018, Joshua Dariye, former Plateau state governor and senator, huddled in the dock awaiting the verdict of fate for pilfering N1.6 billion public...
Members of the Nigerian National Assembly, and by extension lawmakers across the country, have been under scrutiny lately with regard to their engagements with citizen-voters whose...
