Tag: Opinion

Elections are the central institution of democratic governments. This is so because the authority of the government is derived solely from the consent of the people. The practical way of legitimising that consent into governmental authority is the holding of free and fair elections. All democracies hold elections. But not all elections are democratic. Most elections held in Nigeria are… Read More

Nigeria is asset rich but poor in leadership; a land full of mineral resources, unimaginable wealth and human capital. Our beloved country is so blessed, yet crawling into avoidable crisis.  Sadly, the whole world is watching us as the ‘sleeping giant’ becomes the poverty capital of world. The unhealthy state of our beloved country, Nigeria was eloquently captured in a… Read More

The news headlines are as confusing as the policy itself: “Use of Hijab/Beret in Schools: Kwara Govt Insists its Optional”; “We Will Not Allow Hijab in Mission Schools, Kwara CAN Insists”; “Kwara Re-affirms Use of Hijab in Public Schools”; “Kwara Govt Shuts Baptist School Over Hijab Crisis”; “We Never Agreed on Usage of Hijab in Our Schools, says Kwara CAN”;… Read More

Fellow Nigerians,This is a special day in the chequered history of our dear nation. I come before you humbly as a servant and not the ‘kabiyesi’. I come before you fully aware of the enormous responsibility I bear as the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). I come before you with a patriotic heart bearing neither malice… Read More

It was a sobering moment for me. Processing the fact that a number of tertiary institutions  in the country, from the oldest to the newest generation, are engaged in conscious criminality, especifically,  admission racketeering. I had been part of a January 29, 2022 Stakeholders Meeting between the  Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB and Media Executives. It was billed to be a social… Read More

Since I read the BBC’s May 10, 2021, story on the Igbo apprentice scheme titled, “How a Nigerian scheme forged in war creates billionaires,” (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56985304) I have been left angry. Here is BBC’s lead to the story: “Nigeria’s Igbo community have (sic) a reputation for being highly successful businessmen – partly thanks to a community-run apprentice scheme that emerged from… Read More

Here, in plain, unsubsidized language      Are the basic facts   About the fabled Nigerian “subsidy”      Whose endless lies have besieged our ears We the Nigerian people subsidize      The rampant CORRUPTION of our rulers We the Nigerian people subsidize      Their fatal incompetence and prodigal greed We the Nigerian people subsidize      Those government budgets and their recurrent plunder Those capital expenditures which total… Read More

Between January 23-24, 2022, there was a military coup in Burkina Faso which ousted elected President Roch Kabore, and suspended the constitution.  In the evening of January 27, 2022, I was invited to do live interview and analyses of the unfolding, fast-paced events in late Thomas Sankara’s home land of Burkina Faso, on one of the most influential news networks… Read More

The United States, US, and its European allies have, for months now, saturated the world and choked the media on a poorly dramatised soap opera about Russia on the verge of ‘invading’ Ukraine. In this, they have succeeded in diverting the attention of humanity from pressing issues like tackling the Omicron variant of COVID-19, growing hunger and poverty made worse… Read More

In Nigeria today, we live in a culture of death, of human degradation of vain-glory and cynical denigration of our fellow beings. Nigerians are living a life that is, to quote Thomas Hobbes, “nasty, brutish, and short.” As Timothy Adegoke the graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife a victim of ritual killing for money making who was murdered at… Read More