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Royalty in today’s Nigeria is sheer ridicule. That’s why the DailyMail this week could provide unassailable evidence showing that a prominent traditional ruler in the South-West is a notorious conman with a jail record and a history of filth. The royal father was once captured on video rolling up a joint. Career criminals, including landgrabbers, […]
Continue ReadingThe duo of Abba Yusuf, governor of Kano State, and the Nigerian presidency stand the risk of plunging Kano back into the year 1893. Their weapon would be politics and votes of the over 2 million people of Kano. In the year 1893, in the words of highly rated scholar on Northern emirate administration, C. […]
Continue ReadingThere is a sense in which both Nigerians and Mr. Tinubu share a place in purgatory in the last one year. Both leader and people are dwelling a house of incendiary troubles in waiting for admission into either hell or heaven. To that extent, we all have been in purgatory for the last one year […]
Continue ReadingKano’s Muhammad Sanusi II has been rethroned the exact way he was initially enthroned and dethroned: in the melting pot of the politics of vengeance and recrimination. And he just might be dethroned yet again by this, or another subsequent partisan government, given Sanusi’s infamous incapacity to rein in his tongue and to understand the […]
Continue Reading“The day that turned out to be my husband’s last day in this world started like any other day in our home. I was busy getting the children ready for school while he prepared for work. Right from when we became a part of each other’s life, we had the habit of saying goodbye with […]
Continue ReadingThere is a problem about the institutional framework in which the Nigerian state as presently constituted is based. To have democracy, good governance and credible elections, there must be institutional reforms and great accountability in government. The three are interwoven, only that we tend to think that democracy is all about elections. In any case, […]
Continue ReadingLast Sunday, for the fourth time in a row, Manchester City Football Club won the English premiership title. And because of that, ‘enemies of progress’ have not allowed some of us to rest. Even more annoying is that many of the noisemakers actually supported teams of little consequence in the title race. But in Nigeria, […]
Continue ReadingA widower also shared his experience with me, recently. The major lesson that I learned from his story is that there are certain lines that a person who is emotionally stable is not supposed to cross (especially in marriage) but if you find yourself saddled with a spouse who is crossing those lines, please know […]
Continue ReadingMedia Vita In Morte Sumus (In the midst of life we are in death.) This is a Gregorian chant that I often recall whenever there is an accident, a sudden, shocking abbreviation of life in the midst of hope and promise, a most tragic reminder of man’s mortality. Life as either a chemical or biological […]
Continue ReadingThe drama of political bad manners in Rivers State is about to enter the ‘last corner’. Incumbent governor Mr. Siminalayi Fubara has dealt a survival kick after being pushed to the wall for most of his one year tenure. In quick succession, he has turned the table on his chief adversary, FCT minister, Nyesom Wike. Mob support […]
Continue ReadingWhen I get into a new environment, I study the way of life of the residents, in order to understand how and why they do things. Whatever I consider admirable, I copy it. Whatever I don’t consider special, I don’t copy. Even though I had spent two years in Ondo State as a child, it […]
Continue ReadingA minister suffered severe abuse and reprimand from the elites of the North last week because she asked the North to choose mass education first before mass marriage. Sixty-four years after independence, we are still struggling to understand Nigeria’s Muslim North and its ways. A 1950 letter to the editor of Gaskiya, northern Nigeria’s preeminent […]
Continue ReadingHave you noticed that in the last two weeks, Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State seems to have acquired an inexplicably large dose of boldness and courage? Conversely, you must have equally observed that, in the last couple of days, FCT Minister, the very loquacious Nyesom Wike, has taken an uncharacteristically large overdose of meekness and humility. […]
Continue ReadingThe purported ranking of states by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), based on their performance in the 2023 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE), is the focus of this piece. In the said publication, ‘Lagos State, which hosts many private schools and home to virtually all Nigerians, is in the 6th position. The next […]
Continue Reading‘For the modern Yoruba intelligentsia, Ifa is the index of Yoruba wisdom and cultural excellence”-Robin Horton Epega classifies into three groups, those interested in Ifa. 1) Professionals (Ifa priests and diviners. 2) Ifa Devotees-Worshipers. 3) Philosophers-wisdom and knowledge seekers ‘Founded on the beliefs of the earliest Yoruba, Ifa was systematised during the Oduduwa Era. It […]
Continue ReadingAfter nearly 70 years of agitation, Nigeria finally looks set to establish state police. That is, every state will have its own police force. On Thursday, House of Assembly speakers in the 36 states of the federation announced their support for the proposal. That means we should expect state legislators to endorse an amendment when […]
Continue ReadingYou remember how Portable, the Wahala musician, described government a few days ago? He said, “after God, na government.” Great writers are beautiful snakes. The snakes become something else, something more lethal, if they are journalists. The state is a snake hunter, its weapon is the law. So, if you wrote yesterday and today and […]
Continue ReadingWhether you are a runs-girl or a serious-ready-to-mingle single looking to settle down, you need an extra pair of eyes to ‘see’ the man on your case. Pastors call it a discerning spirit. It’s the ability to deeply and spiritually see beyond the fine face and six packs the man toasting you presents. Women, these […]
Continue ReadingThirty-six years ago, in Providence, Rhode Island, I met Tito, a scrawny Italian with a scraggly beard and a resolute spirit. Working together in an automobile battery factory, Tito taught me the power of cooperative collaboration. He shared an Italian saying: “The world is so hard, a man must have two fathers to look after […]
Continue ReadingThe much-awaited public presentation of the book, “Leading From The Streets: Media Interventions By A Public Intellectual, 1999-2019,” authored by myself, took place at the prestigious Alliance Française/Mike Adenuga, Ikoyi, Lagos, with aplomb on Wednesday, 8th May 2024. It was a three-in-one event that featured the unveiling of the book, a panel discussion on the […]
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