Category: Leaders

Our thoughts determine our emotions, and how we feel about our thoughts determine our actions. It is time to act on how we feel about our freedom and democracy. The REVOLUTION of values and it’s attendant consequences has become increasingly important to the African nations with countries like Mali, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and a host… Read More

There is a lot of anger against Nigerians across the world. In East, West, South and North. The latest came from Ghana, our neighbour.  Let me say that most of the things we do in Nigeria can not be tolorated in many countries. We have become almost a burden on ourselves and now becoming a burden ib the world. After… Read More

Just yesterday — March 10, 2010 – Nigerians bent the capricious hand of kismet; they rose against the pirating of the presidency. Nigerian libertarians, in their hundreds, converged on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and marched to the residence of authority, demanding the actuation of the ‘’doctrine of necessity’’. The ailing Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had just been snaked into the… Read More

Dear supporters of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, if you truly want to fight for a better Nigeria, fight for a better Nigeria on principle, not based on interest; do so dispassionately, not selectively. If you hate corruption, injustice and bad governance, it should not matter who is in power. It should not matter which region or religion a leader or… Read More

As controversy continues to rage over the amended Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA 2020), some notable Nigerians, mainly Christian clerics, have implied that the new law is surreptitious agenda, which is meant to foist a Northern ethnic dominance on the populace.  Prominent among those who hold the view that CAMA may have been clandestinely promoted by the Fulani hegemony… Read More

As a writer, there are some issues I no longer react to. I have come to realise that it is better to stand by the corner and observe some certain political drama while it unfold. I have also come to realise that no amount of constructive criticism can change a government that is being championed by unsavoury draculas. Rule of… Read More

Colonial regions were like countries, just as the UK is currently made up of 4 countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Colonial provinces were like the current states of Nigeria. There were 3 administrative regions (i.e. countries) in Nigeria from 1938 – 1963: Northern, Eastern, and Western (see Figure 1). By 1949, these regions had about 12, 12 and… Read More

Another case of witch persecution is unfolding in Cross River State. I was attending an event in Lagos when the news reached me. A renowned Nigerian journalist, Funmi Iyanda, is featuring the issue of child witch persecution in one of her Public Eye episodes later in the year. She invited me for an interview at her Lagos studio in August.… Read More

“Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Give him food, he will praise you and sing for you” Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo. 30/8/2018.  “Tell the truth, and let the devil be ashamed!”  These were the refrains of Mr Adewole, Vice Principal of my secondary school, and the one designated its Chief Administrator of the venerable “pankere”. The flexible cane, made of the branches… Read More

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has ruptured the ceiling of liberties it enjoys. Like King Solomon in his last uneventful years, the government has compounded the yoke of the people with the rocketing of the prices of essential commodities. It appears the administration has lost its sensory organ and has become insentient to the ‘’wailing’’ of citizens. And like the… Read More