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Today, Nigeria is in a place where everyone – government, opposition, and the people – should work together. It is not a time for divisive or self-servicing conversations and engagement. There is fire on the mountain in Nigeria, even though many who should know do not seem to realise it. This is why I find […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State thanked President Bola Tinubu for not interfering with the judgment of the Supreme Court, which declared his election valid last week. It is a most absurd sentiment for a governor to express. One understands that the near-fatal judicial trajectory his electoral victory suffered before the Supreme Court’s […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian power elite now lives in a complete bubble, in their world where everything seems merry and bright. They are buying yachts and exotic cars. They are parading jets and doing everything that catches their fancy, totally oblivious to the increasing level of poverty and discontent in the country. No one can tell how […]
Continue Reading“I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics. – Barack Obama Have Nigerians learned anything from their experience over the past eight years? This […]
Continue ReadingThis is not the best of times for Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political organisation. Since the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, visited the Akure home of an erstwhile leader of the group, Pa Rueben Fasoranti, early this week, a new controversy has erupted. The foregoing is to say that Afenifere is not […]
Continue ReadingI watched Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo’s two recent television interviews with absolute bewilderment. And if the situation in Nigeria was not so grim currently, one would laugh at the minister’s posturing during these conversations. For starters, his appointment as a spokesperson for the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima campaign council is […]
Continue ReadingSometime last week, I was in a conversation with a group of older friends, people who grew up during some of Nigeria’s most glorious days. The gist mainly was around the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s legacy when he hands over in about 21 months. For many people, 21 months looks like a very […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the Presidency expressed triumphalist emotions over two recent events spearheaded by the country’s security forces. The first is the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The second is the midnight invasion of the home of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho. Adeyemo is the chief […]
Continue ReadingMonday’s conviction of former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, for corruption-related offences communicates one or two critical things about Nigeria’s increasingly worrisome state. Sarkozy, who was leader of the European country between 2007 and 2012, has been in public service for close to five decades, since he became a councillor and later, Major of Neuilly-sur-Seine in […]
Continue ReadingIn the aftermath of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State and the victory of the incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki, some have drawn comparisons between Obaseki and the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode. These arguments have gone as far as suggesting that bravery and the lack of it mark the difference between the […]
Continue ReadingAs a lawyer, the unfolding scenario post last week’s election of the Nigerian Bar Association leaves one totally abashed. That is, of course, not to suggest that the NBA is populated by super humans who are infallible. It is only to recognise the fact that the legal profession is held to a measure of standard, […]
Continue ReadingThere is a saying in the Yoruba tradition to the effect that death translates ordinary mortals into idols. I do not know the exact sense in which progenitors of the tradition meant it, but this can be construed in two ways, at least. The first but more improbable is the spiritual. In Yoruba cosmology, the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed’s current war against social media and its tendency to perpetrate fake news and hate speech is in his character. Mohammed, since he came into national consciousness, is known to take his job, whatever it is, very seriously, firing at targets from all canisters, passion and all. As […]
Continue ReadingAs Nigerians congratulated themselves over the country’s 59th Independence anniversary on Tuesday, questions ran through my mind as to whether ours can indeed be said to be a country. And if not, whether it has made any progress in attaining that status or remained a mere geographic expression as Chief Obafemi Awolowo noted in his […]
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