Category: Leaders

Over the years, the discourse centering on the empowerment of women in their political, social, and health status has found some measure of success. Global movements and labour laws have been tweaked to push for gender equality and sustainable development. However, one area has stayed grey: how much time is enough for a maternal leave from work? In many African… Read More

There’s no difference between the invasion of Ukrainians by Putin and the conquered people of Nigeria by their native tyrants. The only difference is Ukraine’s invasion is external while Nigeria’s occupation is internal.  It has been an unbelievable heart wrenching six years of like watching the classic American movie ‘There Will Be Blood’. Nigeria is full of brutalities and blood.… Read More

In 447 days time from now, Governor Ayade will share the grace from office. He will stop being our governor. In case you don’t understand; he will hand over to a new governor and become former governor. But the actual grace sharing begins after the primaries of the political parties which must hold and be completed within the next five… Read More

On Friday March 4, 2022, the Inspector-General of Police announced a new dress code for all female policemen, by which they were to adorn scarves, peak caps, hijabs, stud earrings and such other ornaments. There has been a growing debate on public display of faith by and in public institutions, especially government parastatals. Nigeria is no doubt a heterogeneous society,… Read More

The ‘Matador’-Matawalle has become the ‘King Kong’ now that the Zamfara State House of Assembly gave the ninth National Assembly a bit of respite with the impeachment of Mahdi Aliyu Gusau as the Deputy Governor of the state in a bizarre and ludicrous manner.   The State House of Assembly   snatched the position of “rubber stamp” from the Ahmed… Read More

The name Marshal reminds one of a grassroots politician and student unionist contesting an elective position in the student’s union the year I secured admission into the higher institution. This self-acclaimed Marshall and history student lived within his means as an aspirant for one of the kinly contested positions in the student’s union as at then. The youth portrayed humility… Read More

Following from our preceding outing a fortnight ago, the task with which I have saddled myself is a reintroduction to history. Understood as the theory or practice of revising one’s attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view what I have embarked upon is better cited as historical revisionism shorn of the pejorative characterization. And it borders on the… Read More

War is messy and never fails to spread responsive misery. When Adolf Hitler asked for safe passage to East Prussia through the Polish corridor and also for the occupied port of Danzig, not many could have imagined that it would spiral into a world war that would cost 85 million lives and leave an unspeakable trail of devastation in its… Read More

The image of Nigeria, a nation destined for greatness and blessed with unimaginable wealth and resources has been so battered as a country. According to the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, Nigeria is in the process of collapsing. He alleged that reckless elites in control of the governance process are blindly running the country… Read More