Tag: Opinion

Zambia’s peaceful and orderly election in August offered a glimmer of hope that Africa’s story might be changing. For the third time in three decades, an opposition leader defeated the sitting president sending a message to the world that the continent may not be the incumbent’s lair after all.  Opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, didn’t just win; the incumbent, Edgar Lungu,… Read More

In recent years, unfolding events in Nigeria have clearly shown that, in all ramifications, the country has swerved away from the trajectory of peace that was meant to be the facilitator of its exponential growth. Nigeria is immersed in intra-country conflicts with different agents of destruction claiming the perpetration of violence for the displacement of extant peace needed for the… Read More

“Restructuring Nigeria’’ is a quandary. There is no concord on the complexion or dimension which the re-engineering of Nigeria should take. There has been a cacophony of arguments, but one opinion which a good number of Nigerians hold is that the orbital states that make up the country should determine, manage and control their own resources. This is reasonable.  It… Read More

Ahmad Abubakar Gumi Islamic cleric, scholar, is chief judge of the Shariah Court of Appeal in Northern Nigeria. He is the current mufti and mufassir at the Kaduna central mosque Sultan Bello. More importantly, he is The Butcher of Aso Rock Muhammadu Buhari’s Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO).  Gumi as the president’s TLO, his powers and duties are wide ranging. He’s… Read More

It is a rude awaking to learn the coldblooded murder of Felix Olajide Sowore, the younger brother of Omoyele Sowore, the Nigeria’s frontline democracy activist, anticorruption crusader, and the presidential candidate in the 2019 elections. This dimension of terrorism under President Muhammadu Buhari is a redux to the Abacha regime where families of political opponents were targeted at will.   To… Read More

Very recently, President Muhammadu Buhari shocked the entire nation when he announced that he had discovered 368 grazing routes across the country. It was also reported that the President will proceed to take over these grazing routes, demarcate them appropriately and ultimately develop them for the use of herders and their cattle. This development came a few months after the… Read More

There is something absolutely ‘special’ about Guinea, a poor Francophone country in West Africa. Guineans are proud of their ancestral and cultural heritage. Their first President, nay founding father of the nation, the late Ahmed Sekou Toure, was a strongman who looked imperialism and neo-colonialism of France in the face and said a resoundingly historic ‘No’. Toure told the French… Read More

Do we still need to remind ourselves of the millions and billions of naira that were swallowed by acclaimed unknown snakes, monkeys and the likes some years back?, or should we begin to tell tales of how our government schools that are supposed to be funded by the state are underdeveloped due to lack of financial maintenance?, we could possibly… Read More

Ndi Igbo, Allow me to say how as a child I was most proud to be born into the Igbo Race. My Dad, late Ambassador Raph Uwechue told us such inspiring stories about the achievements of Ndi Igbo, and I was really impressed by what I learned from him (and my Mother) about our culture. School and the outside world… Read More

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, examination is an annual train that runs candidates to tertiary institutions; once it is missed, the candidate has to wait for another year to get on board. So for many youths, it is an opportunity that must not be allowed to slip away. In 2021, as a member of the independent High Power… Read More