Category: Leaders

‘School na scam!’ This disheartening cry puffs into the cyber space and could be heard inside the four walls of a dilapidated university classroom from the lips of a disgruntled young generation. Their pulsating anger worries. “Of what use is it in investing time and resources in a system that has proven to be inefficient, corrupt and almost useless?” they… Read More

Exactly 20 years after Nigeria supposedly got rid of men in camouflage, the country’s democracy is experiencing a nosedive in ways that words alone cannot adequately capture. Ironically, members of the judiciary appear to be aiding the attack against Nigeria’s democracy. An example is the recent ruling in Agba Jalingo’s case in Calabar, Cross River, where the presiding judge, Justice… Read More

Following the resurgence of thuggery and hooliganism in Edo State in recent times after three years of concerted efforts by the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki to stamp this anti-development vice out of the state and create employment opportunities for young people in a productive manner, I am forced to cry out as a democracy activist/advocate who joined forces along… Read More

I once wrote: “There is no morality in global politics. It is eat or be eaten. The nucleus of international relations, beyond the niceties of diplomacy, is interest. Substantially, foreign relations are a trade of interests. Nothing is given for nothing. Every country seeks its own even in the extension of charity to another country.” What is Russia’s interest in… Read More

One patriotic citizen risked his life to track, excavate and exposethe stenchy corpse of corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice systembut no sooner than his findings made it into the precinct of the mediadid reports claim that the cabals involved in the criminal justicesystem went hunting and planning to apprehend this journalist whoexposed corruption. The actions of the authorities calcify my… Read More

Give it to him, the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, knows how to hit the nail on the head when it comes to speaking truth to power. His practical and logical perspectives on national issues can hardly be faulted. An example of this is his contribution at a recent stakeholders’ meeting on how to reduce the number of out-of-school… Read More

My last published piece, “Revolutions that ‘fired’ young Leftists” (September 26, 2019), was an abridgement of what was originally planned to be a much longer essay. That longer essay would have included not only some revolutions that failed but also some revolutionaries that failed to make successful revolutions. In that excised segment was Rosa Luxemburg, a brilliant Marxist revolutionary whose… Read More

There are two demeaning and insulting names that the Fulani gave to Southerners: “Nyamiri” (meaning ‘fetcher of water’) in reference to the people of the South-East and “Yariba” in reference to the people of the South-West. The South-East rejected that name but the South-West accepted it. The name “Yoruba” derives from “Yariba” and it means “shady and unreliable”. I reject… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘’rice revolution’’ is laudable. Before the ‘’crop rebellion’’, Nigeria spent about $1.65 billion annually importing rice from Thailand and India. But the country is not yet home and dry in food production. In December 2018, Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said as of 2015, the country’s food import bill was $7.9 billion, but… Read More

The recent BBC documentary detailing a slew of sex-for-grades storiesemanating from universities in Nigeria and Ghana has brought to thefore, once again, the lingering and pervasive sexual harassment issuein our society. It understandably ignited a frenzied condemnation across the countryprompting the senate to introduce a bill that aims to prevent thesexual harassment of university students. If the bill were to… Read More