Nigerian politics is defined by moral bankruptcy, rampant nepotism, sheer incompetence, mass corruption, assault on the truth, and pure evil. Nigerian politicians go into politics to enrich themselves, families, and friends. The political class believe they are invincible and above the law. Political corruption in Nigeria is all about money and dishonesty. Nigerian politics is extremely crooked, dangerous, and diabolical.… Read More

I am not a fan of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). If you have never taken the time to familiarize yourself with my writings, you might even be arguably blameless, if you have concluded that I hate the saint of Daura. But I don’t: it is our governance system that I have found to be abhorrent and abominable. I love Buhari… Read More

I am not a fan of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). If you have never taken the time to familiarize yourself with my writings, you might even be arguably blameless, if you have concluded that I hate the saint of Daura. But I don’t: it is our governance system that I have found to be abhorrent and abominable. I love Buhari… Read More

The US-based online hard-hitting investigative news portal, SaharaReporters, had for the past months, week in, week out, been reporting about the fiscal sleaze going on in the Lagos State House of Assembly. The (dis) Honourable Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, was reported to be living obscene opulent life on public funds, laundering some, siphoning some and misappropriating others… Read More

“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 just to keep other people warm.”      – Elyana Rausa October 6, 2017.               It is already out of control. The pillaging locusts are here. In their… Read More

A day hardly passes by these days without an invitations to interrogate a deluge of conspiratorial videos making the rounds across social media platforms. These requests are mostly from a small tribe made up of friends and colleagues who are genuinely asking questions on a need to know basis. Being a physician in the frontline, it makes sense that one… Read More

Nigeria, like most other countries, is battling the rampaging novel Corona virus and its attendant difficulties from staying at home. Economic activities are put on hold and the petrodollar revenue is becoming abysmal. For the first time in history, a barrel of crude oil sold at zero dollar threatening the continued existence of our mono-economy.  The stark reality emerging from… Read More

The corona virus pandemic have no doubt changed the way we lived and has affected all and sundry in no small measures. In order to curb its spread, governments all over the world have introduced measures to contain the spread of the dreaded corona virus. Rivers State is no exception to this. In fact, for the past three weeks, the… Read More

The advent of Coronavirus in the global space since last year has in many ways affected both health and economic sectors, leading to uncertainties of when and how it would be contained. So far in Nigeria, the very obvious impact has been huge, especially about government finances, capital flow reversals and loss of income to businesses and households among others.… Read More