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Following the twin policy decisions to remove subsidy on petrol and the floatation of the naira against major world currencies by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu upon assumption of office a little over a year ago, the predictable consequences of these IMF/World Bank-induced neo-liberal economic experimentations have exploded in the faces of its promoters. President Tinubu’s widely […]
Continue ReadingThe long awaited 2023 presidential and national assembly elections may have come and gone but the controversies surrounding its conduct by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is far from over. The 25 February presidential election, which was highly anticipated to be the most consequential election in the 24 years of the Fourthth Republic, fell short […]
Continue ReadingWith its peoples deeply divided along ethno-geographic and religious fault lines, under a tense socio-political atmosphere arising from heightened insecurity, the situation in Nigeria today reads like a tragic plot from the Sudanese playbook. Like Nigeria, Sudan was a British colonial creation, in which the colonials lumped racially, ethnic and religiously diverse peoples together in […]
Continue ReadingA town with well-established features of ethnic plurality, Okene, my place of birth, in the North-Central State of Kogi was like a mini Nigeria. Populated by Nigerians of various ethno-geographic backgrounds, Okene town emerged over early decades as a foremost centre of commerce, trade and local industry among contemporary communities. Whereas, the Igbo community in […]
Continue ReadingIn what has become a familiar pattern, the speech delivered by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark the sixty years anniversary of Nigeria’s independence was one that didn’t fit the purpose of the occasion of a country’s diamond jubilee. By far the worst Independence Day speech by any Nigerian leader in its recent history, President Buhari […]
Continue ReadingAccused of blasphemy against Muhammad [PBUH], the Prophet of Islam, in a song, the death sentence handed down to one Yahya Sharif-Aminu, a 22 year old Muslim singer, by an Upper Sharia Court in Kano State, has once again renewed the conversation about the unresolved conflict between the state and religion in Nigeria. As of […]
Continue ReadingIn the affairs of men, history has a way of repeating itself in ways indicative of a divinely ordained karmic cycle of events. This should easily serve as a proper guide in the activities of humankind. Sadly, if history has taught anything consistently, it is that humankind hardly ever learns anything from the repetitive cycle […]
Continue ReadingThe pervasive Black African roots mentality, which is indelibly etched on the sub-conscious of many a Nigerians was in full manifestation once again when boxing superstar Anthony Joshua beat his opponent Andy Ruiz Jr. to emerge world heavyweight boxing champion. Born to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity in Watford Borough of Hertfordshire County in the […]
Continue ReadingAs no nation on earth is truly endowed with an abundance of human and natural resources, the need to look beyond national boundaries to make up for these essential economic wants becomes inevitable. Throughout the history of mankind, nations have struggled among themselves to shore up their internal resources from external sources through military […]
Continue ReadingThe rising cases of kidnappings and killings in the southern part of Nigeria, a country that has gained global infamy as the third most terrorised space in the world has once again opened a new chapter on the controversial subject matter of the activities of killer herdsmen. In addition to the numerous accounts of the […]
Continue ReadingBy February 23, when the first set of presidential and National Assembly polls took place in another of Nigeria’s quadrennial electoral cycles, President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) ruling “politburo” had not only met but had broken every record of misrule of the preceding sixteen years of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), […]
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