Category: Leaders

“Hello Femi. I have been trying to reach Sowore. Tell him Igboho has just been arrested in Benin Republic. Let this be out as soon as possible please.” This was the call I received in the early hours of today, Tuesday, 20th July 2021 from an ally of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho. It was exactly 1.14am, believed to… Read More

My aging brain still has a vivid memory of that fateful wet morning of June 3, 1992 when the news broke on CNN. The previous day, on June 2, 1992 to be precise, the Bosnian-Serb Army had shot down an F-16 fighter aircraft belonging to the United States Air Force (USAF) that was part of NATO Expedition Force that was… Read More

The digital Sports Minister Mr Sunday Akin Dare (SAD) has the outlook of a fine gentleman with his blue suit and red tie in place always,  but his latest actions are at cross roads with this deceptive mien.  Since his appointment as Sports Minister,he has used his position to intimidate and try to stamp the Athletics Federation of Nigeria AFN… Read More

I recall how PDP as the ruling party at the centre prior to 2015, boasted to high heavens through its then national chairman – Mr. Vincent Ogbulafor that it will rule Nigeria for  60 unbroken years and in that misplaced euphoria PDP unleashed its majority in the National Assembly (NASS) to stifle and frustrate every single fundamental move to  reform… Read More

The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give them a befitting burial. They liken this to the same manner when fire dies out in the hearth, it is replaced by ashes, and when a banana tree withers, a sapling sprouts in its… Read More

In general, communities get whatever they accept. Thus, those that tolerate corruption will have a corrupt society. While, those with zero tolerance for corruption, will get a civilised  society. Sticking with Nigeria, that country is a failure because the people chose to accept a Unitary system that experts had told them would never work, and time has proved the experts… Read More

I don’t believe in one Nigeria. I don’t believe in 2023 elections. I believe one Nigeria is not possible because it’s not doable. We are not one. We will never be. I believe Nigeria will never know peace, progress, and prosperity until and unless we go our our separate ways. A friend sent me a video of press conference of… Read More

It is stale news that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled fugitive leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN), was kidnapped in Nairobi, Kenya, and brought back to the country of his birth he derisively described as a ‘zoo’. His judicial odyssey would now have to restart in earnest (26 July) from where it… Read More

The rate of poverty in the Northern region of Nigeria is quite unfortunate despite the abundant resources and human power in the region.  The political and leadership failure represent the fundamental menace that continue to trouble Northerners whose only joy is that one of their own is in charge. The instability of the Nigerian government has seriously damaged the educational… Read More

Over a year after the arrest of Kano’s famous humanist, Mubarak Bala who has been arrested and detained without trial, Kano is at it again, but this time it is a popular Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara being accused and prosecuted for blasphemy. Unlike the mainstream Sunni scholars who defend everything attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, Sheikh Abduljabbar’s only… Read More