Category: Leaders

Power. It excites and incites. It can excite hope and strength, or incite tension, hate and bitterness. Why should the regional background of the next president be a vexatious issue, evoking threats and recriminations? Why should brothers be at daggers drawn with each other over the geography of power? What happened to gentlemanly ententes, negotiations and trade-offs? What happened to… Read More

Justice, equality, and fraternity were the tripod forces and principles that triggered the 1789 French Revolution. These became the song on the street of Bastille and other parts of France that year. It was sung and animated so much so that it became the signpost of hundreds of demonstrations of people’s power around the world in the years and centuries that followed. The organization of polities around the notion of a nation-state and the political coordination of such an entity was at this… Read More

The APC led Buhari administration is no doubt desperately in need of exciting distractions to keep the focus of the people away from its abysmal failure, but she has chosen a wrong masquerade for the job!   With a masquerade living in anger of the south easterner over his betrayal of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and waiting for the vengeance of his… Read More

Ambition Never Comes To An End.– Kenneth Kaunda Ring the bell!  Sound the alarm! There is an eight month rumour in Nigeria that has refused to go away.  Never, ever, doubt it when you are told that in every rumour, there is an iota of truth somewhere. Ignore it at your peril.  Perhaps the adage; ‘No smoke without fire is… Read More

The prevalence of the members, privies and agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) flaunting the law, breaking the instituted rule of law and not adhering to due process of the law is getting out of hand and they must hence be called to order and get their tail tamed for good or they risked being scrapped like… Read More

Ispent over 20 years of my working life abroad as a university teacher, banker and international civil servant with an unblemished record. I have no criminal record — not even a parking ticket. Sadly, it is in my own fatherland that I’m being subjected to criminal investigation and such extreme political persecution. Please, pray for me. I have reasons to believe that my life is… Read More

Civil society groups, including Non-Governmental Organisations are a positive force for change and progress in society, oftentimes helping to bridge the gaps of alienation between government and the people. In developed parts of the world, CSOs and NGOs have been in the forefront of making our world a much better place by helping to fight injustice, man’s inhumanity to man,… Read More

Ayetoro is being washed away. So sad. Our beloved “Happy City;” the legendary London of Ilaje land is being turned to a mere shore. by flood.  Growing up in the coastal areas of Ondo State, Ayetoro was a story every child longed to hear, an experience every one wanted for holidays. “Happy City” was a class of its own when… Read More

I do not write this piece to vex Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, The Butcher of Aso Rock, or All Past and Present Convicted Criminals (APC). FFK, as is fondly called by friends and foes, died in 2019 after he declared that “With what I have witnessed, I would rather die than join a filthy, rat-infested sinking ship like the Almajiri Peoples… Read More

Senator Smart Adeyemi, Senator Jibrin Isah and Senator Yakubu Oseni have decided to join the ongoing macabre dance in Kogi, by dancing naked before the Nigerian public on the issue of the alleged N20 billion fraud involving the state government. Though Kogi is always known for bad politics, this is the first time that senators from states in Nigeria will… Read More