Sometimes, when you think you have heard the worst about what is going on in Nigeria; that is just the beginning of contending with the unimaginable. One time, you hear the President’s wife telling the nation that she doesn’t know the whereabouts of her security aides, at another time; you read news report of shootings in the seat of power.… Read More

I goofed, but may be just a little, because this is not how the story ends.  In January, I predicted that the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, and his protege and Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, would drag themselves to the brink, but that just when everyone thinks they’ll fall off the edge, they would stop… Read More

Arise o Nigerians to the clarion call navigating you towards reintegration as opposed to the destruction miles away. Our history as a nation was built on compromise, subordination and ethno-religious bigotry coupled with external interests. A nation like Nigeria with enormous natural resources and unmatchable manpower in Africa continues to wallow in poverty, corruption and underdevelopment. I am writing this… Read More

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 Dollars stolen by her late loathed dictator-husband. One would have expected the former First Lady to keep quiet and be ashamed of the atrocities committed by her late husband but she manifested the nebulous… Read More

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, has provoked deeper implications for the systemic racial injustice in the United States of America. One of the powerful voices resonating with the racial crisis is the Reverend Al Sharpton. A prominent African American civil… Read More