Category: Leaders

Daurans. That is, people from President Muhammadu Buhari’s home town of Daura in Katsina State, are a lucky people. Their son, on December 17, while marking his 79th  birthday in Erdogan’s Turkey, announced that when he finishes with the Nigerian presidency in 2023, he would retire to the town and take charge of his farm and cattle ranch. Yes, while… Read More

The newly turbaned Talban of Daura, Yusuf Buhari, bears striking resemblance to his father. President Muhammadu Buhari’s look-alike son had been in the news for few scandals. Compared to the sons of Generals Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and the late Sani Abacha Yusuf is world’s apart in terms of abuse of power, corruption or involvement in scandals that tend to… Read More

It’s been over six and a half years since this government came into power. On the balance of probability, come 29 May 2023, they will be leaving the country worse than they met it. Notably, they were voted into power to tackle specific issues – mainly insecurity and sleaze. And history will not ignore their failure. With less than 14… Read More

In geometry, space, sides, lines and angles are ingredients for understanding relativity. However, Grief Geometry is a different kind of kettle. It is here used in reference to the ceaseless adversarial violence with non-receding fatal consequences; resulting in despair, fear, shocks, wailing, lamentation, gnashing of teeth and  other sorrowful  expression of endless grief occasioned by widespread banal violence and generalized… Read More

Penultimate weekend I had attended a social event downtown. A good friend of mine had sent me an invitation card, days prior, intimating me of a ‘Committee of Friends’ gathering where his Nigerian friends and well-wishers would be told of his plans to travel back to Nigeria to traditionally marry and wed his girlfriend this December. The dude who hails… Read More

Though no birth certificate for General Muhammadu Buhari, The Butcher of Aso Rock, has ever been found, it is generally accepted that he’s between 79 and 83 years old.  While your critics paint you as arrogant butcher who kills opponents, adversaries, and non-Fulanis with no remorse, majority of Nigerians believe you’re the most sadistic person that ever ruled Nigeria. In… Read More

Four foreigners identified as diplomats leaving Botswana on November 11, 2021 tested positive to what turned out to be a new variant of COVID-19 which has now come to be identified as Omicron. This variant was unknown to science. However, South African doctors led by Angelique Coetzee by November 24, 2021 correctly categorised the new variant, and with that, the… Read More

It’s not been a merry run up to Christmas for many Nigerian travellers. It all started with Canada, Saudi Arabia, and then the UK, red-listing Nigeria (and 10 other African countries) for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in spite of relatively low reported cases.  If there were any remaining doubts about COVID-19 racism, these countries shed it and showed the… Read More

Now that the noise and uproar that greeted the sad and unfortunate death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, student of Dowen College, Lagos seems to have subsided, perhaps we can  now devote some time to ruminate over the tragedy that is fast unfolding before us as a nation.  We are always apt to shout, condemn and empathise and rightly so, when… Read More

Bisi Akande’s My Participations reads as if it was dictated, not written. All the way through, we hear Bola Tinubu’s voice. It’s like being cornered in a bees’ hive and harangued endlessly by his political foes. A biography of lies. I abandoned the book after few pages! I won’t waste my precious time talking about the book. In his remarks… Read More