In Chinua Achebe’s seminal novel Things Fall Apart, the character Ezeudu delivers a powerful admonition to Okonkwo: “That boy calls you father. Do not bear a...
Recently the Foreign Policy Magazine began a project it called ‘Letter to the Next President of the United States’, in which experts were sought to write...
“Bros, na wah for you oh. How person go dey call you, you no go pick call?” “A beg. My head no straight these days.” “Are...
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THERE will be a significant election this year in a significant country which prides itself as the greatest democracy on earth. That country, a super power,...
There is a fire and ballot revolution in Rivers state and the main victim that I can see for now in the burning fire is Nyesom...
ONE of the strengths demonstrated one week ago, on October 1, by Nigeria’s president, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while he addressed the country on its 64th...
FROM conception as we ruminated on how to mark the ‘low key’ (apologies to Nigeria’s president, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s regime) celebrations of the country’s 64th...
Today in Lagos, the Oyo family – husband, children, grandchildren, in laws and the extended families from Ekitiland, Urhoboland and elsewhere as well as friends and...
RENEWED HOPE is an ATTITUDE, it is not a STRATEGY. What Nigeria urgently needs as she turns three scores and four is a well-thought-out, audacious, and...
LAST week was draining for many citizens. This opening statement sounds stupid. The question that should naturally strike anyone who has lived fairly consistently in this...
A battle on the electoral turf has just been won and lost in Edo state, Nigeria. Governor Godwin Obaseki was elected as Governor in 2016 on...
The return of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from what looked like a long trip abroad must come to many as a relief. When the President travelled...
My last child, for now, will be 23 years old in December. He grew up calling me Daa. He learnt it from his two elder brothers...
“Bros, you dey craze. I watch you dis morning, you just dey yarn, You just dey craze. You just dey troll Una dey drink something for...
Captured hereunder are some thoughts of the British philosopher and political theorist John Locke in his enduring treatises in the 17th century. He wrote about the...
“Hello, Bros. Hello. Hello. Hello” “Yes. I can hear you” “Which kin thing be this now? I don dey call you since, you no pick call....
LAST week the presidency said in a statement that Nigeria’s president, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would be travelling to the People’s Republic of China in the...
I was away on vacation for just two weeks only to return to meet fuel queues still on the streets of Nigeria with the fuel stations...
IN their heart of hearts even the most ardent supporters of Nigeria’s president know that Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu is contemptuous of Nigerians. But in fairness...
“I hear the people of Ogun State have put the people of Nigeria in serious trouble with the Chinese.” “You did not hear anything. The story...
THE ‘attacktics’ (attack tactics) of the attack dogs of Nigeria’s president, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, appear to have failed them concerning one grave allegation against their...
The Paris Olympics Games, July 26 – August 11 began on a tentative note, but it has turned out to be a memorable, successful, sensational event,...
FOR the life of Nigeria as an independent country, 1960, the history is fairly recent. Though the journey through time had been chequered, nothing these past...
The #EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria were scheduled to take place between August 1 -10, 2024, tagged “10 Days of Rage”, a seemingly apocalyptic projection of the...
THEY have done their job, or what they considered to be one of their jobs. I mean members of the National Assembly (NASS), comprising the House...
“Ol’Boy.” “Bros. Bro-oo!” “How are you preparing for Thursday?” “What is happening on Thursday?” “What do you mean what is happening on Thursday? The #EndBad Governance...
IT’S less than 10 days away. That’s if the planned protests against hunger, poverty, bad governance etcetera, were to materialize. The protests are scheduled for August...
I write about three icons born in the month of July – July People – not in the sense in which students of literature are wont...
Except for the period between 2017-2021 when he escaped being killed by an invading murderous band of Nigeria’s security operatives including members of the armed forces,...
THEY have done their job, or what they considered to be one of their jobs. I mean members of the National Assembly (NASS), comprising the House...
This year, 2024 is clearly the year of democratic elections, the. year that democracy is put to the test in virtually every continent of the world...
AKIN Fapohunda is a chieftain of the Yoruba sociocultural-cum political organisation, Afenifere. He said so himself. He also claims membership of a shadowy and suspect political...
There is something eerily familiar about the protests that engulfed Kenya last week. Many Nigerians would easily recognize the parallels between this and the #EndSars protests...
In every government or institution, there is a corresponding invisible hand that remote-controls its affairs with immense influence over decision-making process, predominantly on matters of interest....
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”. In Biafra between 1967-1970, the period of the Biafra-Nigeria civil war, the above statement was a battle cry which...
“My friend, where are you? I have been calling your line since, you no dey pick” “Where else would I be at this time? I am...
HE ruling elites have us by the balls. Our collective capacity for short memory is like none anywhere else in the world. So it’s usually easy...
One of the highlights of the recent celebrations of Democracy Day, on June 12, was the series of anniversary lectures organized to mark 25 years of...
One of the very easy tactics that a government adopts when it sees that it is unpopular with the publics that it governs is to create...
Media Vita In Morte Sumus (In the midst of life we are in death.) This is a Gregorian chant that I often recall whenever there is...
ALHAJI Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s president will be one year in office next week. But the carnage he has wreaked on Nigeria- individuals, families and institutions-...
The report that President Bola Tinubu has now ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to suspend the implementation of the proposed Cybersecurity Levy must come...
IN light of the challenges facing the Igbo today in Nigeria, the last thing that the beleaguered people should have to contend with is a fractionalised...
YES, he is. A bonafide Igbo for that matter. After all, he was a two term governor of Ebonyi, one of the five states in the...
It is always very embarrassing to read stories of Nigerians who go abroad to give the county a bad name. Nigeria became known as a country...
“How are you coping with this fuel scarcity? Fuel queues everywhere. Even the bus stops are crowded. People waiting for buses that also do not have...
ALHAJI Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was declared Nigeria’s President on March 1, 2023, while Nigerians were asleep is deeply contemptuous of Nigerians. But more important is...
We welcomed 2024 with dancing, high-five, kisses, hugs, and singing amidst blinking red lights everywhere, worldwide. On the left hand, the world carried a hamper of...
The problem with a key-note address is that, the speaker has to contend with an informed audience whose members are very conversant with all the issues...
IMMEDIATE past governor of Kogi state, Alhaji Yahaya AdozaBello, is on the run. And in hiding. He was governor between 2016 and 2024. He was not...
