Category: Leaders

It is so unfortunate that insecurity is still waxing strong in our polity despite all efforts of the government to bring the menace under control. Day in, day out, people are being slaughtered like chickens and there is palpable fear in the heart of the masses. Mutual suspicion has pervaded the nook and cranny of the country and this has… Read More

Per Prof. Patrick Lumumba, people who are politically and intellectually bankrupt normally seek refuge in ethnicity and religion as their major fact of mobilization. The recent ethnoreligious politics over an image that represents the Fulani tribe on the new Nigerian Passport championed by “Apostle” Suleman, Nnamdi Kanu and Femi Fani-Kayode was sinister. It points to a new dangerous retreat to… Read More

Those conversant with my online published weekly opinions on national issues would readily testify to the demonstrated fact that I have never been a fan of either the notorious Fulani herdsmen or the controversial APC Chieftain Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We are for no one but Nigeria, justice and democracy. Our guiding principle for over a decade has been ‘for… Read More

In certain quarters, views have been expressed whether when we eventually get our own Nation, the Oodua Nation, we would be saved the agonies of incompetence, the anguish of corruption and or throes of treacherous leadership. These are legitimate views and fears. They should be expressed and entertained. Doubts should be expressed and be catered to. For it is only… Read More

One of my favorite works of Professor Wole Soyinka is “telephone conversation,” a poem written more than 50 years ago while he was a student in London.  Telephone conversation is a hilarious take on a very serious subject of racism encountered by African students from prospective landlords in 1950 London. It is engrossing, brilliant and as relevant today as it… Read More

Nigeria has spent a total of $12.38 billion in the last 46 years. Between 1999 and 2019 Nigeria Spent N2 trillion and Buhari spent 45% of that fund.  The chronological  timeline is shared below  1973-1998: The Nigerian government spent $1.83bn on installing 5.715GW Hydro and Gas power plants. Please note the Nigerian Naira was stronger than the USD from 1973… Read More

I started following Vice President Osinbajo closely in my last year in university before I returned home in 2016. His speech at the 50th Anniversary of the civil war that I listened to on YouTube convinced me that we have a leader in him. Whenever I news item comes up on him I investigate it.   I have also been… Read More

It is sad but true that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. Like a broken record, we constantly revisit the economic and social quagmire in which the majority of our citizens are trapped. Nonetheless, repetition doesn’t have to be redundant if the motive behind it is to underscore something of great importance. The long-standing… Read More

The possible breakup of Nigeria brings on the bone-shaking shivers doctors call rigors. Many writers have detailed how Nigeria is bursting at the seams with ethno-religious, political and economic problems waiting to explode. However, the apostles of one Nigeria have repeatedly denied or dismissed the notion and tried to nudge us out of that zone. By definition, a failed state… Read More