Category: Opinions

The campaign season in Nigeria is widely visible, just as are frequent kidnappings, abductions, terrorist attacks, and killings for all kinds of reasons. As in many countries due to a combination of international and local factors, economic problems keep mounting, inflation is high and prices of almost everything are rising. In May 2023, the presidential elections will take place alongside… Read More

There was a time when northern leaders were stupid. I am talking about the days before the May 1953 riots in Kano and the days after. Oh, they were so stupid that I am sure they would be ashamed of themselves when they look back.Here is a summary of what happened. This is for their children and grandchildren who were… Read More

Imagine living your life knowing what you could have done differently. Having the weight of a dream that you could have made a reality, but because you did not see what you could have done you never believed in yourself. Imagine having the 1 billion percent chance to have 1 billion dollars but you failed to see that for yourself.… Read More

Firstly, it is not correct to describe Nigeria as a “nation”. It is a pseudo-country. Country – because it is an amalgamation of several ethnic NATIONS, where each indigenous ethnic nation could have been a country in its own right. Pseudo – because this country is based on a false Union Agreement.  That is, the 1999 Constitution that creates the… Read More

“That these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.) This is about the most famous declaration of all times,… Read More

Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, the 75-year-old former Vice President won the PDP primary by 371 votes. He beat other 13 candidates that included former senate president Bukola Saraki, Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Aminu Tanbuwal of Sokoto State. Nigeria is a country of devils. The evils perpetrated by Nigerian politicians every day aptly fit the description. With the ongoing… Read More

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.– Robert FrostAt the end of this month, other things being equal, Nigeria’s major political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will select their presidential candidates for the February 2023 general election. By… Read More

So they think that they are fighting for the Igbos and the southeast by the gruesome and despicable killing of Fatima and her four children? Shame on them!So they think that killing the Anambra state lawmaker who was kidnapped over a week ago and then was subsequently murdered by his captors would show them as patriotic Igbo sons fighting for… Read More

The conviction of Nigerian Humanist, Mubarak Bala, after a judicial process marked by irregularities jolted the civilized world. People of conscience had hoped that human rights would prevail; that after some dark nights of denial and disappearance, some light would shine at the end of the tunnel untwisting extremist imaginaries that had viciously beclouded and gripped the minds of Islamic… Read More

Nigeria’s spectacular crises in almost every facet of its national life are inescapable. They cling like your skin. And for your sanity, you must detox from time to time. I hope this trip to Grenada, through Afghanistan, helps. Instead of writing about killings of the most bestial variety up and down the country, an economy on life support, insecurity, ASUU… Read More