Category: Leaders

Our breakfast was roasted cocoyam, red oil and a lot of onions and tomatoes. For a long time, I have not had such a sumptuous and indigenous meal. Before we set on our different ways, we had had discussions for about an hour at the restaurant located in the basement of the small but cute hotel. That was some months… Read More

Germany is the powerhouse of Europe; its largest economy accounting in 2017 for 28 per cent of the euro economy and has the fourth-largest GDP in the universe. It is also a showcase of Western democracy with its most prominent politician since World War II, Angela Dorothea Merkel, serving as Chancellor from 2005 for 16 years. Yet, in practice, the… Read More

The term ‘State Capture’ was strange to me until it occupied our continental consciousness as Mr Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa came under public scrutiny in his rainbow nation. He was accused of stacking State governance structure high to the ceiling with cronies and business associates in ways that were detrimental to economic prosperity and national security of… Read More

Omoyele Sowore, Human Rights Activist and founder of the African Actionreligions and walks of life and over time, have been able to pose unbiased questions to significant people, do my own research, follow patterns and build up as true a picture as I can, of what’s really going on there.   I’ve found the Nigerian people to be warm, welcoming and… Read More

I thought there was a mistake. The headline said Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain and wife of Dim Odumegwu–Ojukwu, Bianca, slapped the outgoing First Lady of Anambra State, Ebele Obiano. In my head, however, the news read differently. This was not the sort of thing you would associate with Bianca, a former ambassador and beauty queen.  In spite of what I… Read More

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” – Martin Luther King. Jr. It is no longer news, that the selection of the new vice-chancellor of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University has come and gone with the emergence of Prof. Simon Bamire, and ever since the announcement of the election… Read More

Nigeria is entering a crucial period in its history. Surely, given the state of the nation today, it would appear perverse to be exercised by the 2023 elections. So weighty are the problems that we grapple with and so fluid their composition that many worry that there may not be a country after the coming year. Today, as a people,… Read More

On Wednesday, June 14, 1990, Princess Diana and Prince Charles attended their children’s school sports day. The two participated in their sons’ school’s parents’ race. Diana ran barefooted across the turf while Charles wore an apron. In the mothers’ race, Diana came third. Charles was amongst the last to reach the finishing line in the fathers’ race. Prince William, who… Read More

In the past three days, news outlets have been inundated with reports, reviews and arguments on the propriety or otherwise of the Federal High Court’s decision nullifying section 84(12) of the Electoral (Amendment) Act which provision precludes political appointees from participating in primary elections of political parties in Nigeria.Lawyers have expectedly analysed the speed, validity, aptitude, uprightness, mischief, morality and… Read More

On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky teleported his boyish charm and growing authenticity as a brave leader in war-time into the auditorium of the United States Congress. He addressed the leadership of the U.S., for about 15 minutes, from a location in the Russian war-devastated Ukraine.Appealing with anguish and an impressive sense of dignity, the former comedian… Read More