Category: Leaders

This is an attempt to enlighten those criticizing people like me who live abroad and, as such, are not expected to talk about Nigeria – our country. In other words, I am directly responding to Buharists criticizing diasporas.  I wish this writer, like many of his kind are genuine with no strain attached, but I can tell they are not.… Read More

  Recently an assemblage of Northern groups (numbering more than three scores and a dozen) under the auspices of the Northern Consensus Movement had disclosed that it would pay a reward of N100 million to persons who could produce the fugitive leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for the continuation of his prosecution for alleged treason in Nigeria. The group… Read More

Awkward moments are human, and hardly call attention when mere mortals are involved. But when the high and might trip, they make the headlines.  Both experts and lay people sometimes feel obliged to ask if such awkward moments may not indeed, like Freudian slip, mean more than meets the eye. And quite often their suspicions are right. Take former US President, Donald Trump, for… Read More

The northerners will tell you unity of Nigeria is not negotiable. They will tell you asking for restructure and self-determination amounts to treasonable felony. They will foolishly argue that agitators for restructuring and self-determination are calling for war. To the northern leeches and loafers, they contribute nothing, but take everything. They believe there’s nothing wrong with Nigeria or with the… Read More

Some of the major challenges bedevilling the electoral process in Nigeria, and thus abbreviating the integrity of democracy in the country include over the years: lack of access to polling units, the location of polling units in problematic parts, overcrowding, conflict, violence, the designation of places like shrines, mosques, churches and private residences as polling units which grant the owners… Read More

This Buhari’s administration is clearly on an undisguised ‘nothernization’ and ‘Islamization’ agenda. It is also getting a gripping handle on the art or politics of exclusion. What? Just take a cursory look at a few developments over the last 24 hours and you will understand what I mean. We are told that the Buhari administration is set to open 4… Read More

This past week, the deaf, dumb, and illiterate General Muhammadu Buhari went on a road tour comedy show with his another signature irrational and silly tantrums. Speaking through one of his interpreters of maladies, Alhaji Mohammed Bello Shehu, the dumb, “lifeless” General Buhari said : “… So those calling for separation or restructuring some of them I will say are… Read More

There was a man I knew who helped a former Head of State’s wife gain access to her husband whilst the latter was in detention and when his life was in danger, even though he had never met him.  There was a man I knew who gave $100,000 USD to a leading traditional ruler who was in need and wanted… Read More

Last Tuesday, a video had gone viral online showing Ms Chiamaka Udeh displaying a blood-stained Nigerian flag while appearing on stage at the international beauty pageant featuring African damsels in Moscow, Russia. She was representing Nigeria in the event. The Lagos-born model from Anambra state was apparently protesting against the bloody events in her native country and reminding the global… Read More