“We can’t continue to search the branches of a sick tree for the cause of its sickness.” – African Proverb As history unfolds in Nigeria, it...
May 29, 2015, shall be recorded in our history as the moment when democracy finally was allowed to participate in Democracy Day. The reason for this...
Defence spokesman Gen. Chris Olukolade in a letter to the former Minister of Education Dr. Oby Ezekwesili accused her of mounting a hate campaign, against the...
A lot of Nigerians do not know that Nigeria is a secular state and they are also not aware that the Constitution of the Federal Republic...
I should make two quick points before I proceed with this. One, I absolutely do not like the ethnic coloration that we give to politics in...
Now that Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has been chosen by the Nigerian people, it is my duty as a patriotic Nigerian to help him succeed...
“World Bank backs Buhari to probe NNPC, others”. -Punch, April 14, 2015, p 32. The report by Everest Amaefule, went on to state that “The World...
Have you seen the new LASTMA patrol cars? They have been cruising the streets of Lagos very recently, “helping mitigate traffic and catching traffic offenders. This...
Irked by the xenophobic attacks going on in South Africa, Charly Boy bares his mind. Read what he has to say: I am not feeling good...
When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 girls, on the night of April 14, 2014,...
Mourning a loss in the family in Nigeria is an interesting sociological proposition which cuts across divides of tribe, tongue, and faith. Baba has gone to...
Few years ago, one of my students stood up in the middle of a lecture and asked, ‘Sir, who owns Nigeria?’ I was teaching a topic...
In his book, “One Hundred Million Dollars in One Day”, Michael Field narrated an incident that happened at the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting...
Nigeria is a school of paradoxes if you sit back and reflect on a number of matters. The most recent is the fulmination of former military...
Monday, March 23, 2015. Two separate incidents conspired to whip me back to life. Deadened by Jona’s shock promise of 50% reduction in electricity tariff, my...
I have often argued that the entire Nigerian political machinery that bears the name “government” is little more than an arrangement to enable a few individuals...
Patience Jonathan, aka Dame Patience, aka First Lady, aka Dr. Chief (Mrs.), aka Mama Peace, has emerged as the standard for Nigeria’s current political season—with all...
The hate speech is everywhere. They are coming from people you expect to be more responsible. The so called campaign adverts do more damage than the...
Even at the tamest of times, Nigeria can be an infuriating address. In an election season, it becomes maddening, a space where nothing is sacred any...
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Chukwuma Soludo, has released a third article, where he dissected the economic policies of the ruling government, and...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s suspenseful transitional government is gradually drawing to a close. His secret wish has been truncated. He expects Nigerians to simply reward his six-year...
While June 12 may mean different things to different people, what is not in doubt is that Nigerians paid an enormous price for the contrived and...
What makes our situation especially galling is the fervid intrusion of some opportunistic sanitizers who bear direct, sometimes even originating responsibility for the plight in which...
Let me be clear: whether “Continuity” or “Change” carries the day on February 14, the real name of the thing behind the verbal mask will be—“More...
“This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as...
PART 1 Our ‘mumu’ (is it stupidity?) has caught up with us. Now, no one can escape the dire consequences of living in our cultural and...
I need to preface this article with a few clarifications. I have taken a long sabbatical leave from partisan politics, and it is real fun watching...
Despite all pretensions to the contrary, it’s squeaky bum time for the Teflon General and his many supporters. Two weeks into the campaign, the talking point...
The 2015 elections is a time of monumental decision for Nigerians. Unlike time past, we now have two strong parties that could never have presented more...
Few years to his death, Late Chief Bola Ige at a seminar in Ife, admonished his audience to forgive their enemies but never to forget their...
Fellow Nigerians: On behalf of my husband, His Excellency Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, I want to thank you all for answering my call to please...
There’s something quite peculiar and absurd about being a Nigerian. It’s a country of – so to speak – unspecified data and dimensions. Nigeria is not...
Last year, on June 3rd 2012, there was a plane crash in Nigeria in which over 163 people were killed. The plane was owned by Dana...
In the last three and half decades, whether as a student, rights activist, journalist, author, researcher and father, I have come across numerous men whose writings,...
