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To save Nigeria we must, among other things, go back to Education, Healthcare and Infrastructural development, Cut The High Cost Of Governance, with the President, ministers, governors, legislators and all other political appointees taking a substantial pay cut to save money that could be spent on the welfare of the citizenry – Chief Philip Asiodu, […]
Continue Reading“The incubus of demagoguery unleashed itself in a way it has never done in any other state in Nigeria. Ekiti became the laughing stock of the nation, the hellhole of country bumpkins ruled by fiat and fear, subservient like oxen who adore their yoke. Friends and compatriots from other states called me, asking, with a […]
Continue Reading“The Nigerian lack of values is sinking the nation’s only bread basket: oil. The oil majors are leaving because we no longer run businesses in the sector but installing rackets like a gangster paradise. Even those responsible for bad fuel and long queues at fuel stations are walking the high places of power like lords. […]
Continue ReadingThe communique of a recent meeting attended by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar; Elder statesman, Edwin Clark; Muslim Cleric, Sheik Gumi and representatives of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Middle Belt Forum; CAN and several other groups, can be summed up as follows: ‘The existential challenges being faced […]
Continue Reading“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” – Corinthians 15:56. The grim reaper has again struck nearby, the third time in a space of two months, taking away not only my own immediate junior brother, but also a dear friend, and classmate, at the University of Ife, Ile – Ife, […]
Continue ReadingI have severally made the point on this column that for us to make any meaningful progress in this country, we must, despite the risks, tell truth to both power, and ourselves. One of the weaknesses I have observed in the current administration is that those closest to the president, and are, therefore, in a […]
Continue ReadingOpposition governors are being lured, or intimidated – according to Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku – to decamp, APC chieftains are making a hash of trying to ‘turn’ a once despised former President; the legislature is looking, more and more, like the Executive’s Siamese twins, eagerly working towards achieving a national Press for which the […]
Continue ReadingWinston Churchill made one of his most famous pronouncements in November 1942 when he declared as follows to the House of Commons: “I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire”. Indeed, Churchill managed to avoid personal responsibility for the loss of any significant imperial […]
Continue ReadingIf you have not been able to put your hands on the problem with Nigeria, it must be because you have never really put your mind to it because it is so easy to know. It is simply that a blessed country, home to some of the best and brightest on the surface of the […]
Continue ReadingI’ll no longer announce the deaths of those killed by Fulani herdsmen, rise up and defend yourselves with weapons not prohibited by law, bows and arrows, spears and knives. Get licence for dane guns from local government Chairmen and use them to defend yourselves,” – Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state. Armageddon beckons – Columnist. […]
Continue ReadingMr. President Sir. Why has your government abandoned the Kaduna College of Forestry kidnapped students, leaving their parents traumatised, and scampering everywhere, when Nigeria has an army and the primary responsibility of government is to provide security for life and property? Is that what governments do? I have in mind here, how the U. S came […]
Continue ReadingWithout a scintilla of doubt, not all who now know about him have heard the names ALANA (PATH FINDER) Professor (Senator) Banji Akintoye before he became the YORUBA LEADER on Thursday, 22 August 2019, despite his becoming a Professor at the prestigious University of Ife, Ile – Ife, way back 1974, a foremost Awoist and […]
Continue Reading“To eliminate herders’/ farmers clashes, ECOWAS must take drastic steps in curbing foreign herders who are always armed with sophisticated weapons from making incursion into Nigeria just as the federal government must ban open grazing and block grazing routes from the northern to the southern part of the country” – Statesman Abdullahi Ganduje, a Fulani […]
Continue ReadingLost the White House Lost the Senate Lost the House Lost the popular vote Lost Electoral College Lost 60 suits in an attempted coup The end of a pathetic Trumpian era. Watching the Trump mob took over the United States capitol complex evening of Wednesday, 6 January ’21, will go into the history books as […]
Continue ReadingA few there were who foresaw what we are going through today in Nigeria with regards to the indescribable insecurity that has engulfed our land, no matter which part you turn, but incredibly more so in the North of the country. One such person was Chief Obafemi Awolowo who severally warned that by denying western […]
Continue ReadingMy sincerest condolences to families who have lost any member as a result of the #ENDSARS protests and eternal rest to the young Nigerians who have unfortunately paid the supreme price. The protests were with complete orderliness until some people with agenda infiltrated thugs into the mix and took it off the hands of the […]
Continue ReadingThe Fragile States Index for 2020 ranks Nigeria 14, with a point of 97.3, and in the group of countries placed on the “alert” status. This position places Nigeria four positions away from sliding into the “high alert” status with countries like Afghanistan, Sudan, Chad, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. And […]
Continue ReadingIt is interesting to observe that despite the dire 2006 prediction by a U. S group which in its: ‘Mapping the Global Future report” – a project projecting global trends and likely scenarios up to 2020″ – had stated that: ”Nigeria as a corporate entity was likely to splinter along tribal and sectarian lines by […]
Continue ReadingIt is now most likely that only some terrible, unforeseen circumstances, would make President Muhammadu Buhari shift an inch from his ramrod stand against restructuring despite his recent panegyrics to true federalism. This will be sad given the dire circumstances Nigeria is in and the fact that there is no dearth of advice from respected […]
Continue Reading“It is really crunch time. This harvest of despair is the product of many years of servile bondage, repression, suppression, deliberate pauperization of the people and placing their destinies and lives at impossible angles. My late father used to warn the Northern elite. This is morning yet, the Somalization of the far North is fast […]
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