Tag: Opinion

It has been seven years of attrition, hate-bartering and exhausting recriminations. A new epoch is on the horizon, but the psychological mutilations from these years of anger may shape up to be the frustrations of the next administration. Nigeria needs healing. The country needs a healer to mend the sectional cleaving and to nurse it back to health. It needs… Read More

After the feisty, if not bitter, presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ended on Wednesday with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerging as the party’s candidate for the next election, the overriding instinct is to throw the losers under the bus. You can hardly blame Tinubu’s camp. The man had a raw deal right up to the last minute.… Read More

The vote is in. The election is over. My sympathies go to APC Alhaji Bola Tinubu and PDP Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, flag bearers of their respective parties for the 2023 presidential election. As the highest bidder candidates with bullion vans, they didn’t even need to be voted into office. They could easily achieve a solid decisive win over their challengers… Read More

As we approach the next dispensation, political actors are busy with intense “politicking” with the sole aim of being in power in 2023. The last 7 years of the Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressive Congress-led government have been monstrously disastrous and caused an increased yearning among Nigerians for a true leader who will inspire confidence in them, and motivate them… Read More

Nigeria has become a place of bitter irony and black humor, failed hopes, and dashed plans. The Sunday morning service massacre by the Fulani terrorists at Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo, Ondo State, was proof that mass murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, hatred, and rage, have taken on new meaning for Nigerians and in particular, Yorubas. If we understand our history and… Read More

It is no longer news that primary elections of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party conducted to choose its candidates nationwide were heavily monetized and brazenly corrupted. The embarrassment to us as a nation is the open display of corruption by an opposition party that is seeking to take over power. In many parts of the country, reports monitored through the… Read More

The European Council met this Monday, May 30, 2022 on the Ukrainian-Russian War, made the same old arguments, declarations, threats against those who do not support Ukraine, imposed additional sanctions on Russia, and returned to the comfort of their homes. Nothing in its 18-point long communiqué expressed sorrow or regret over the thousands of youths and civilians who have perished… Read More

After last weekend’s primary by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election, political leaders in the South have been hurling abuses at the North for betrayal. According to pro-zoning interest groups in the South, it’s not supposed to be this way. After over two decades of… Read More

“My fellow Nigerians:It will come as no surprise to you that for me – Buhari, the biggest, most important issue in next year’s election is Buhari. “APC primary will hold between June 6 and June 8. In a presidential system of government, voting in the primary is primary to our democracy. Primaries are how we choose who runs for president.… Read More

Foxy old Buhari. Artful. Deliberate. Unassuming but redoubtable. Principled but unaffected. He guards his mystery. He hardly betrays emotion. He keeps his real intentions secreted in layers and layers of very few inscrutable words – and most times in obfuscating silence. Take his ‘’obliviousness’’ for a lack of presence of mind at your own devastating befuddlement. Buhari knows what he… Read More