Category: Leaders

A society which eats, debases and abuses its young is a coven run by witches. The almajiri children are innocent socialised into a culture and system they did not create. They are just unlucky to be born in an unfortunate axis of the world. They did not make their circumstances or their world; they were thrust into it. They live… Read More

This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since the Federal Government placed Lagos and Ogun states, and the Federal Capital Territory on a lockdown on account of the spread of COVID-19 in… Read More

The COVID-19 situation in Nigeria will continue to get worse and the virus will remain a serious problem for a fairly long time in the country. The reasons are numerous and the logic is obvious, as dictated by common sense, science of what is known about the pandemic, and the context of the country.  It appears that there is a high… Read More

You can be forgiven if you think the present administration’s failure with regards to its communication began only last Monday with that embarrassing leak of the President’s national address. True, there was substantial goodwill when that famous victory was won at the 2015 general election,and the assumption was that beating a sitting president was due to the opposition’s excellent communication… Read More

“Hello, Excellency!” “Hello Mr. President. It is always so good to hear that: Excellency. It is wonderful. People like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, they never call me that. “It is not a problem, Excellency. I know you are very busy, Excellency. They said you wanted me to call you?” “Oh really, who? You know we are so busy with… Read More

There are “three keys to credibility,” says Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant. “One, never defend the indefensible. Two, never deny the undeniable. And no 3 is: Never lie.” Lying in office didn’t begin with President Muhammadu Buhari. It will not end with him. But the scope of Buhari’s falsehoods as a “man of integrity” raises questions about his trafficking… Read More

The Access Bank, shortly after the re-capitalisation policy of Soludo’s, has been the major manipulator in the labour market segment of the banking sector. Access Bank was once renowned for promoting the age limit of 24 years for applicants of Management Training cadre. It popularized and promoted HND/BSc dichotomy by delisting the HND from its recruitment system. Except from a… Read More

In an attempt to canonize the late Malam Abba Kyari his friends in and outside the government have attempted to play on the intelligence of Nigerians and the international community. In particular, the trio of Simon Kolawole, Segun Adeniyi and Waziri Adio who are senior journalists have given the very  misleading impression that their friend was incorruptible, honest and loyal… Read More

The Governor of Kano, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, is in the eye of the storm. Reports of purported “mysterious” deaths in Kano raised eyebrows given the spread of COVID-19 and casualty figures around the world. Media coverage of the deaths intensified as prominent individuals, including the Emir of Rano, academics, politicians, clerics, and parents of top politicians, died.  Ganduje did not help his case when reports… Read More

The arrest of a 70-year-old man and two others for “insulting” President Muhammadu Buhari and governor of Katsina State is unconstitutional and therefore condemnable. The point has to be made that defamation (whether civil or criminal) is private or personal in nature and public officers or government agencies are barred by law from suing for defamation.  In the case of… Read More