Category: Opinions

Taraba State of Nigeria is perhaps the most endowed state in northern Nigeria due to several distinguishing economic potential features that place it above the other northern states, and perhaps the country as a whole. With a foreign and domestic debt profile of over 60 billion naira as of  30th June 2018 according to the Debt Management Office, it is… Read More

Since 2015, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has had the fortune of a life time to have produced the holder of the office of the president. Mind you, whichever political formation that forms the central government in Nigeria, is by that fact, a global player following a combination of factors. First, Nigeria is the country with the largest black population… Read More

It saddens my heart to see how Nigerians can’t tell the difference between worshipping God and making noise. Before I pour out my mind, I will like make it clear to everyone that this is not an attack on any religion. I’m sure those of you who are religious but do not worship God will come for me, you are… Read More

The supreme court is an “ecclesiastical order’’; it sits on high looking down on the ”lowly”. It dispenses in inexorable ‘’justice’’; justice not because it is always just, but because it cannot be interrogated when it is unjust. In the course of my career as a journalist, I have covered a good number of court cases. And I have beheld… Read More

It is so unfortunate that insecurity is still waxing strong in our polity despite all efforts of the government to bring the menace under control. Day in, day out, people are being slaughtered like chickens and there is palpable fear in the heart of the masses. Mutual suspicion has pervaded the nook and cranny of the country and this has… Read More

Per Prof. Patrick Lumumba, people who are politically and intellectually bankrupt normally seek refuge in ethnicity and religion as their major fact of mobilization. The recent ethnoreligious politics over an image that represents the Fulani tribe on the new Nigerian Passport championed by “Apostle” Suleman, Nnamdi Kanu and Femi Fani-Kayode was sinister. It points to a new dangerous retreat to… Read More

Those conversant with my online published weekly opinions on national issues would readily testify to the demonstrated fact that I have never been a fan of either the notorious Fulani herdsmen or the controversial APC Chieftain Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We are for no one but Nigeria, justice and democracy. Our guiding principle for over a decade has been ‘for… Read More

In certain quarters, views have been expressed whether when we eventually get our own Nation, the Oodua Nation, we would be saved the agonies of incompetence, the anguish of corruption and or throes of treacherous leadership. These are legitimate views and fears. They should be expressed and entertained. Doubts should be expressed and be catered to. For it is only… Read More

One of my favorite works of Professor Wole Soyinka is “telephone conversation,” a poem written more than 50 years ago while he was a student in London.  Telephone conversation is a hilarious take on a very serious subject of racism encountered by African students from prospective landlords in 1950 London. It is engrossing, brilliant and as relevant today as it… Read More

Nigeria has spent a total of $12.38 billion in the last 46 years. Between 1999 and 2019 Nigeria Spent N2 trillion and Buhari spent 45% of that fund.  The chronological  timeline is shared below  1973-1998: The Nigerian government spent $1.83bn on installing 5.715GW Hydro and Gas power plants. Please note the Nigerian Naira was stronger than the USD from 1973… Read More