Tag: Opinion

One of the first definitive steps taken by General Ibrahim Babangida on displacing General Muhammadu Buhari in a “palace coup” and coming to power in Nigeria in August 1985 was to set up, four months later, a 17-member committee (two women and 15 men) to organise, conduct, collate and then report on a general national political debate. He called the… Read More

I am no expert at pandemic disease and global health crisis but the responses of African leaders and Nigerian leaders to be specific to the global health crisis of Covid-19 has generated a lot of mixed reactions in my mind. Should I be happy that finally this pandemic is generating the right responses in “our so-called leaders” about the dire and… Read More

The uncouth behaviour of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, during the commissioning of the NCC complex in Mbora, in the presence of the President is unfortunate to say the least. This could only happen in Nigeria where Muhammadu Buhari is the President. In saner climes, the minister could have resigned for disrespecting the office of the President… Read More

The world is facing its most trying and unprecedented times as the last few weeks have been most challenging for almost everybody.  What started in Wuhan, China, as an epidemic, has put the entire world in disarray.  Major streets across the globes have become empty. Both the rich and the poor are being ravaged by the plague of COVID-19, which… Read More

The trip was not planned. As concerns over the spread of Covid-19 grew and the country inched more and more towards the abnormal, I figured travel might be restricted before the end of the week. A call that Tuesday morning confirmed that feeling: I decided to travel out of Abuja immediately. What I saw at the airport and on the… Read More

Let me begin by saying that the views expressed in this article are not solely targeted at Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. It extends to the Nigerian Government and all governors in Nigeria that have taken restrictive actions similar to the fiat issued by Wike banning entry into and exit from Rivers State by air, land or sea. I… Read More

“In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.”          — Erik Erikson, German-American Psychologist/Psychoanalyst and the originator of the theory of “Identity Crisis.” “Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it,… Read More

The cloud out there is still dark, the thunderstorm swirls with warning. A day the trumpet blows itself without a signal may just have come. Just suddenly a day turns into a night. A scary moment of unrest, a tough time when the fear of unseen grips the earth.  The pandemic has shaken the world beyond the control of the world’s… Read More

The spread of the infectious Coronavirus now referred to as COVID-19, with its attendant and towering impact on global economy has clearly become an existential threat to humanity. The pandemic is reshaping the world in ways that has exposed humanity to the proclivities of a possible lockdown of the human race.  In Nigeria, we are daily inundated with the spread… Read More

Political leaders in Nigeria from time immemorial especially in the fourth republic, developed a penchant for misfiring on issues that affect all Nigerians. From power to education, infrastructure, health and the topical COVID-19 pandemic of which as at the time of putting pen to paper, the country has recorded 51 cases with more suspected. It seems Nigerians have over the… Read More