Category: Leaders

The news last week of the deaths of two young people, Tolulope Arotile and Fahim Saleh (Gokada entrepreneur) whose paths may never have crossed but who nevertheless shared the same kindred spirit of adventure, left me in a daze. Both died in different places and under different circumstances, but you only need to look a bit closer to see the dots… Read More

On 1 August 2019 he arrived home in Kaduna, after a long day. He drove in and was about to lock the entrance gates when, like in a movie, gunmen appeared and in the words of his wife, those men “…accosted him and took him away in his car.” His family waited, hoping he will return the same night. They… Read More

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.             -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)   We have decided to carve out our own NATION STATE out of Nigeria. THE OODUA NATION. We have reached the limit of our endurance with Nigeria. We are tired… Read More

Just last week, I wrote that under President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria has not just become a cesspool of corruption, it has become the next level of it. Although at the time I wrote the Op-Ed last week, I did not have a grasp of the skill and deft that has come with this new scale of corruption!  The investigative hearing… Read More

Nigerians home and abroad were glued to Channels TV live coverage of the ongoing House of Representatives Committee on oversight probing the financial malfeasance of the Niger Delta Development Corporation. The comedy show of the notorious nincompoop Godswill Akpabio, Minister for Niger Delta Affairs and the clown, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, former Acting Managing Director of NDDC at the hearing was… Read More

Recent revelations involving weighty allegations of hire-wire advance monumental grand corruption at the Niger Delta development commission (NDDC) have again raised concerns about the need for the commission to reform or close. The latest fallout from the NDDC are allegations of sexual and work place harassment sparking fears of a possible sex ring within the commission. These allegations coming from… Read More

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AFAW) urges the new president of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, to take urgent steps to end the incessant killing of alleged witches in the country. This appeal has become necessary following reported cases of the brutal murder of persons accused of witchcraft in this southern African nation. In recent years, Malawi has become a witch killing… Read More

There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists, and fragments of radical democrats), on the one hand, and the actual history of Nigeria’s Left politics on the other. That contradiction can be stated like this: Nigerian Leftists have always hoped to found a substantial and respectable pan-Nigerian organization that is… Read More

I am obliged to put into writing the cordial relationship between Nigeria and a social revolution. Studies from political science says a revolution (Latin: revolution is “a turn around”) is a fundamental power and political organisation, which occurs when the population reverts against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic) or political incompetence. The ancient Greek philosopher,… Read More

The embattled Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Mustapha Magu, regained his freedom recently after more than a week of detention and interrogation in Abuja. Magu, it would be recalled, was picked up and handed over to the presidential panel investigating the alleged graft-related ‘offenses’ of the anti-corruption czar. Magu was given an ample opportunity to… Read More