Category: Opinions

A plus ca change. Leadership fails, followership fails; society atrophies and nothing changes. Why? We keep reinventing purgatory because we are either too complacent or too self-absorbed to interrogate the real issues of leadership, divorcing provincial proclivities. We want change and good governance but have refused to levitate above the insular mentation that has kept us bound in the abyss… Read More

THE United Nations  Assembly, UNGA, deliberations and resolution on the veto power that was held on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, was two years in the making but was all hot air without substance. It was a poor stage drama with a linear plot. The event was like a dog sharpening its teeth over two years for a great bite, only… Read More

The ASUU Strike actions has lived rent-free in Nigeria for 34 years. And even till now, we still cannot tell if it would ever be evicted from our midst. What has been the students’ fate even since this industrial struggle began in 1988, if not wasted time and resources, shattered dreams, frustration, drop out, suicide…..e.t.c.? A government that spends below… Read More

For the umpteenth time, let me state that I don’t believe in one Nigeria. I don’t believe in the 2023 presidential elections. The election will produce a president from the rank of thieves who destroyed Nigeria. I believe dissolution is the answer and not elections. Nigerian democracy has morphed from a Democracy of People into a Democracy of Naira. Pay-to-play… Read More

Twitter, Instagram and Facebook facilitate our daily digital interactions among friends and relatives, far and near. Cross-fertilisation of ideas remains a democratic imperative in a free world. The Internet, without any iota of doubt, has dramatically changed our communal or individual conversations among ourselves in the whole world. With the advent of the Internet freedom of expression has been given… Read More

One of the biggest jokes that hit the airwaves this week was that Governor Ben Ayade,Cross River’s worst governor since 1999, declared his intention to run for President in2023. This declaration was a cruel insult on the collective intelligence of not just fellowCross Riverians, but all Nigerians. It is disrespectful for a governor who has failed sospectacularly to declare his… Read More

I think the most frequently asked question today is, who will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari? With over 35 aspirants openly declaring their interest as of today, a few still in the closet and more coming out, the field has never looked more crowded. And last week, the decision by former President Goodluck Jonathan to put one leg in the ring, while… Read More

I have a neighbor who constantly needs a prompt before she throws Udoka’s ball back into our backyard. It is not just a prompt; the woman wants a thank you each time she does that. And that could be a lot of times in one weekend alone. I don’t really blame her. The white picket fence separating our yard from… Read More

On a daily basis, we are confronted with more valid reasons why women should be allowed to take the front seat in setting policies and making decisions that help shape our nation Nigeria. Only recently, I was privileged to hear of the penal code, which applies to the northern part of Nigeria and I was in shock as to how… Read More

On the 31st of March, 2021, one of my lawyers, Samuel Ihensekhien Jnr drew my attention to a “display of naked power” by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, who was seen in a viral video with his security detail, assaulting a citizen, Clement Sagwak, at Banex Plaza, in Wuse Abuja.The organisation identified the victim to… Read More