Category: Leaders

I have been following Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency since 2015. Based on his extensive overseas trips from 2015 to 2018, I penned a piece “Buhari: The Absentee President” published by SaharaReporters on May 23, 2019. The article summarised in eloquent details, Buhari’s overseas junkets year by year, month by month, and date by date. I conclude that what emerges from his… Read More

In the heat of the lynching of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013 over alleged criminality, I wrote an essay entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence and vanity, which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own. I also suggested the need for value re-orientation – a… Read More

A teacher’s comment on the report sheet of a pupil, which came to people’s attention via the social media last week, is a sad commentary on a nation that has consistently ignored the root cause of its problems. The teacher, under the remarks’ section, had simply noted, “she has passed away”, in obvious reference to the pupil being promoted to… Read More

It has been 20 weary days since Omoyele Sowore was taken into a hovel of silence by the Department of State Services. The outrage over his abduction and detention is tapering off; dissolving with every quotidian day. It is human nature to quickly glide past shock, happenstance or pain after sometime but in Sowore’s case, we must bring this weakness… Read More

My constant assertion that Cross River state governor, Senator Ben Ayade isa threat to free speech and a free press in Cross River state has beenchallenged by some of his aides who also want me to prove my allegationwith facts. The thing about this administration is that, in the same mannerthey make and forget promises so quickly, they also forget… Read More

The naked beating of Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Germany evokes painful lessons, particularly with Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and, of course, the continued detention of the frontline anti-corruptionadvocate and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore. First, the sympathy generated from the Ekweremadu beating has to do with the fact that the specious victim is a prominent… Read More

Most statutes, particularly one that circumscribe the liberty and fundamental rights of individuals, have to go through the crucible of judicial furnace. Our law reports are replete with various decisions, dating back to the 60s, where the judiciary rose to the occasion to protect the liberty of citizens, particularly under the rampaging military dictatorships and Nigeria’s human rights jurisprudence has… Read More

Last Saturday afternoon, the Internet broke with a viral video of the Indigenous People of Biafra coyotes attacking former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and sending him out of an event in Nuremberg, Germany. In the said video, Ekweremadu was thoroughly humiliated, beaten and sent out of the event by a rabble that were hooting and fretting at him. A… Read More

So, kasala burst this past week, FBI’s morning rose early on a Nigerian Forbes’ fraud, and most of us have remained stunned. However, we should know, though, that while Obiwanne ‘Invidious’ Okeke is just the vomit, our epidemic culture of “blow” is the actual cholera. I shine pass you; Na ordinary Camry sef e dey drive, common pencil; Big man like… Read More

The Herdsmen terrorism in Nigeria has lasted because the victims are typically ordinary people. Consider for instance two recent killings where the victims happened to be an ordinary man of God and a daughter of a prominent politician. Take note of this name: Funke Olakunrin. She was the daughter of the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Though murdered in cold… Read More