Category: Opinions

Bisi Akande’s My Participations reads as if it was dictated, not written. All the way through, we hear Bola Tinubu’s voice. It’s like being cornered in a bees’ hive and harangued endlessly by his political foes. A biography of lies. I abandoned the book after few pages! I won’t waste my precious time talking about the book. In his remarks… Read More

Omicron is revealing a gradual global power shift.  The reactions to the recent travel ban against African countries has shown two things.  First, not every country is on board with the slogans of global solidarity that were bandied  about like a football being kicked around in a UEFA Champions League match. The recent racist  headline in a Spanish newspaper demonstrates… Read More

The unfinished business. Just as uncompleted projects line the arteries of Nigeria, inchoate probes and investigations afflict the system. It appears probes are exploited to keep Nigerians busy and excited in an elaborate conspiracy and to cover up official malfeasance – and in some cases to ‘’blackmail and extort’’ — as it is the case with national assembly investigations.  I… Read More

If there is one area this government is failing significantly, apart from its clueless handling of the economy and security, it is in its international communication and responsiveness to Nigerians.  It started with the introduction of discriminatory covid test policy by Dubai authorities, and Nigeria rightly responded by banning Emirates early this year. To date no clear communication on the… Read More

He waited for the right moment to strike, being the commencement of the new legal year of the Supreme Court and the conferment of the Rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria on deserving applicants. The Honouable The Chief Justice of Nigeria, The Honourable Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, threatened to unleash the judicial fang upon all those involved in undermining the… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari is a Fulani from Daura in Katsina State. A retired Major-General who coveted democratic power after truncating democracy in the early 80s for the sake of power and its appurtenances. In December 1983, aided and abetted by other professional coup-plotters (‘militricians’ if you like), Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Domkat Bali and the late Joshua Dogonyaro and Sani Abacha,… Read More

We know President Muhammadu Buhari, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to whom the National Assembly and judiciary are loyal, is perhaps the most powerful person in the country. But when his Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jedy Agba, announced on Monday, December 7, 2021 that his boss had removed with immediate effect, the management and board of a… Read More

On October 8, 2017, the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Cardinal Olubunmi Anthony Okogie criticised the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, over his decision to have as many branches of the church as possible. In his condemnation of such mushrooming of churches the Cardinal described them as “mere business centres,”… Read More

One never stops wondering about the unending volt face of President Muhammad Buhari and APC henchmen.  They came seeking political Power wearing redemptive masks as they danced with saintly gaits and sang redemption songs on podia across different States of the Federation. They vilified the PDP saying the party was responsible for everything that was evil in Nigeria at the… Read More

Independence from colonial masters was meant to be freedom for Africa, however some sixty years later, freedom has continued to elude many African countries. That is because Independence in itself is not freedom, except when it is accompanied by SELF-DETERMINATION for indigenous ethnic nationalities on their ancestral land.  Looking back at events in the 1950s, it becomes clear that corruption,… Read More