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Nigeria is a mess right now. A huge mess. Even the blind can see it. And the deaf can hear the cry of anguish of Nigeria’s children. Can the country be rescued? Possibly. But the myths, years of delusions of grandeur and criminal capture of the Nigerian state threaten the possibility. Last week one of […]
Continue ReadingHappy New Year. What’s happy about the New year? Many are stepping into it with fear. Fear of economic hardship. Fear of insecurity as scores are massacred in cold blood in parts of the country or kidnapped in other parts.. Fear of the state as bully likely to destroy everything you have worked for in […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Nigerian elections, Mr. Peter Obi and political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi on Tuesday visited the family of late Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu at his family house in Ibadan, Oyo state. The duo were received by the wife of the Late Governor, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, and […]
Continue ReadingIt just seems like a National emergency everywhere you look. The despondency seems matched only by the desperate sense of helplessness. The curiosity about this pall of disquiet led me to put my ears to the ground. I have been navigating Whattsapp groups. Saying little but feeling the temperature and letting the Barometer gauge. Despair […]
Continue ReadingThis is a freedom manifesto for the captured people of Nigeria offered in autobiographical form. Beginning from age 17 as an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria I have rallied resistance against injustice. My early cry for doing things right peaked with my calling out students at UNN to protest police killing of University of […]
Continue ReadingChieftain of the Labour Party (LP) and Professor of Political Economy and Management, Pat Utomi, has spoken about his struggle with cancer. In a series of tweets on Friday, Utomi revealed he was diagnosed with cancer in 2022 after a biopsy. The professor did not state the exact form of cancer he is grappling with. […]
Continue ReadingThere are many still in shock about February 25th and March 18 elections. This is understandable. In the week before the 20th of February it appeared the Obidient movement had pulled off a miracle and already made good of the first part of the first promise of the Obi/Datti manifesto: To unite and secure Nigeria. […]
Continue ReadingI was one of seven professors who facilitated a leadership training in my university here in Georgia for local government chairmen from a major Nigerian southwestern state. In the course of the training, I adverted to a January 13, 2018 column I wrote about how power literally damages the brains of people who wield it […]
Continue ReadingIf you grew up on comics, or followed the television series and movies; from Superman, Batman and Robin, Spiderman and their types, you may believe that all superheroes wear capes. You may also believe, as one superman film was promoted, that if you see the movie you will believe a man can fly. I was […]
Continue ReadingProfessor of Political Economy and Management expert, Pat Utomi, has said that alternative roads must be created if tollgate fees are going to be reintroduced. Utomi also stated that the idea to scrap the toll gates in the first place was a very unwise one as government spent tens of millions of dollars knocking them down. […]
Continue ReadingIf wisdom were ever desperately needed, that time is now. But reason is embattled and truth often comes with a high price in this kind of season even if it may bring post hummus tribute to those who speak them today. Why are we caught in this gale of emotional neighbor-bashing and bitterness of spirit […]
Continue ReadingProfessor of political economy, Pat Utomi has countered the presidency’s claim of “disgruntled religious and past political leaders” working with “external forces” to overthrow the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Utomi in an interview with PUNCH described the claim as “silly”, and further alleged that people in power are the ones who have ordered a coup against the Nigerian people by […]
Continue ReadingIronies litter the landscape. Newspapers chose to emphasize the back of the president as he climbed aboard the presidential jet to go for another medical check-up abroad. Many are still pondering if the meaning was desired in the symbolism of turning the back at a distraught people battling an inchoate economy and ever-present threat to […]
Continue ReadingAs America descended into tribal war in the final days of the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Nigeria, about which the traditional ethnocentric social scientist in my graduate school days there, 40 years ago, would explain ethnic conflict as tribalism, sunk further down the gutter of parochial contention of everything, from security to restructuring, a […]
Continue ReadingIt seems real. I lived to be 65. Who would have believed it? Escaping assassination attempts under military rule, terrorist bombings on a London train, near Air crashes, and automobile mishaps, one of which left me with little evident pulse or breathing, and so presumed to have crossed over. That got me the rare privilege […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian story is a heartbreaker. We seem, as a people, to perpetually engage in monstrous deceit in rationalising why our country is failing. It’s usually an exercise in intellectual thuggery or mental dribbling of self. This orgy tends to climax at anniversaries. As June 12 began to approach, I hoped for a place of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Chief Operating Officer and Acting Managing Director of former Volkswagen Nigeria Limited and Professor of political economics, Pat Utomi, has noted that corruption is worse in this present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari than it was ten years ago. According to him, the change promised by President Buhari-led government has not worked at all. […]
Continue ReadingAt that time I was trying to cash out my Lead investments because I had invested in a small finance venture that I had helped through the metamorphosis into Platinum Bank which I served as Chairman. As the merger game played out, Lead Merchant Bank was left stranded and more than N200 million became nothing […]
Continue ReadingI know Femi Kusa. He is a friend and a classmate. I knew of him from his Daily Times days. Then we met at the University of Nigeria shortly after the end of Nigerian Civil war. I have read his reflections on Ndigbo and the politics of Lagos. And have followed with considerable curiosity the […]
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