Tag: Opinion

The guns of Nigeria’s three-year civil war were silenced 51 years ago, but in the battle for a truly federal state, the echoes of warfare have never been more resonant.   On August 10, Rivers State, which at an average monthly federal receipt of N12b, is the third richest by dole amongst Nigeria’s poor 36 states, started a war with the… Read More

The peace-loving United States, US, President Joe Biden on Wednesday September 15, 2021 announced the birth of a  new trilateral military alliance  of Australia,  UK, and U.S with the acronym,  AUKUS.  The alliance he said is to take on the threats of the 21st Century. Biden argued that  the way to achieve this  is for the three countries to maintain… Read More

Femi Gbajabiamila, the headless Speaker House of Representatives, on Wednesday turned on the loudspeakers of his mouth blaring above 55 decibels in public space. He likened IPOB and Yoruba agitators for self-determination to Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) terrorist groups. He said: “These people, in their inclination for  devastating violence against fellow citizens… are no different from… Read More

Political hoodlums in Nigeria share same  ideology with reference to bad precedent laid by their political godfathers. Nigerians have never experienced the dividends of democracy since independence. This has made the struggle for the emancipation of our democracy to be more intense than during the military regimes of our recent past.  Politics in Nigeria has turned into a business of… Read More

Corrective leadership. Nigeria needs corrective leadership in 2023. No government has it all figured out. While a government may perform superlatively on infrastructure development, it could be a spectacular wreck on security and managing diversity. Progressive leadership is corrective leadership. It is expected that every succeeding administration should surgically address the malignant afflictions and infecundity of the preceding government.  Insecurity… Read More

Aminu Bello Masari, 71, is the incumbent Governor of Katsina State. Katsina happens to be the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari who is from Daura while Masari is from Masari village of Kafur Local Government Area. A former Speaker of the Federal House of Assembly between 2003 and 2007 during ‘Babacracy’ Masari could be described as a veteran politician… Read More

It must be the fruits of a turbulent spirit. Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo described him more as a man ruled by the cravings of his stomach rather than the demands of mental exegesis.  But when you hear him speak, it makes you wonder. His eloquence and the structure of his verbal articulations mesmerise you into having greater respect for… Read More

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. We are at the moment in this country struggling against uncertainty. The cost of food now in the open market is gradually becoming an existential threat to the middle class, sub-middle class and the proletariats.  This is largely so because… Read More

Siwo  siwo  siwo Siwooooooooooooooo      He was Nigeria’s closest instance of the Renaissance Man: musician, sculptor, inventor, sportsman, architect, scholar, mythmaker, lay philosopher, folklorist, and culture ambassador/impresario. A true Jack of many trades who strove so hard to be master of all, he was a man of  many capabilities , with a voice that was admirably polyphonic. His impulse was both… Read More

Professorship is only attained by active academics who devoted their time for teaching and research in the University. Besides, there are certain steps that are followed before any one in academia is promoted to the rank of Professor. Someone need to pass through the ranks like every other professional cadre. In the University promotion system, an academic needs to attain… Read More