Category: Opinions

The gubernatorial election in Anambra State came to pass last weekend with little or no serious violent incident recorded anywhere. The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo predictably won the poll by a landslide. Winning 19 out of the 21 local governments that make up the state is a great electoral feat indeed. Fears… Read More

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is planning to sue you. Yes, you. I know that you don’t know it yet. That is why I am bringing this wonderful news to you. It is not only Google, RootsTV, Punch, Vanguard and Saharareporters that he is threatening to sue. Those people deserve to be sued to extinction, if you ask me. They cannot… Read More

Before the British Colonialists introduced democracy to a hastily assembled colony which they psychedelically christened ‘Nigeria’, the various ethnic nationalities that constitute the current Nigerian polity governed themselves in different ways. While the colonialists abhorred some forms of these ‘native’ governance, they nonetheless admired and even adopted others through their indirect rule system. However, they bequeathed their system of governance… Read More

I was at the EndSARS memorial pAdeyeye Olorunfemianel last month where I made a submission that tore both the panel and the audience into sections. I said there are no citizens yet in Nigeria and I insinuated that the concept of citizenship is just to fill our lexicon with words that would make us look like a country that also… Read More

The country was cheerful when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced it would be piloting its version of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) on 1 October 2021. Surprisingly, the apex bank decided to skip the pilot scheme to launch the eNaira on 25 October 2021 fully. For the country that will host the Headquarters of the African Central… Read More

This analysis is done on the recording of the Knights and Kardinals Clubhouse (app) discussion titled, “Debate: Prof. Pat Utomi vs Tony Nnadi On The Way Forward For Nigeria” which took place on 3rd November 2021. Pat Utomi is a 65-year old Professor of political economy, and a management expert. He had been a onetime governorship candidate of the ruling… Read More

I PASSED in front of the University of Abuja, UNIABUJA Staff Quarters on Sunday, October 31, 2021 on my way from the Nigeria Media Merit Award programme in Lokoja. As I did, my mind raced back to the issue of insecurity I had raised three days earlier during my keynote address to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Bauchi… Read More

Nigerians are no strangers to frequent traumatic losses. Gas explosions. Armory explosions. Oil tanker explosions. Oil rig explosions. House on fire. Factory/Wharehouse on fire. Market on fire. Church on fire. Mosque on fire. Shrine on fire. Forest on fire. Name it. Like all traumatic tragedies, the collapsed  Fourscore 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi Lagos, occurred without warning. Traumatic tragedies… Read More

The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is a gentleman whose political and evangelical integrity is not in any serious doubt. He is not a paragon; therefore, like every mortal, he has his strenghts and weaknesses. (Saints hardly venture into politics, especially the Nigerian murky one). His strenght lies more in his rich ecclesiastical background… Read More

The rains come  too late these days and leave before their time withering fields foretell the coming of furious famines Spring swallows summer summer stumbles into a sweltering fall while winter joins the fray with snowy deluge and blinding ice Unstoppable fires consume the skies from Kangaroo Island** to Paradise***                           Pause A melting Arctic chokes the oceans  which claim… Read More