Sadly, it isn’t the so called “marginalisation” that may lead to another civil war in Nigeria. It is IGNORANCE. The weapon of FEAR is being deployed across the Nigerian space. Imaginary enemies are being created from North, South, East and West. The creators of the imaginary enemies are protected from the implosion that will emerge from misleading an IGNORANT mass. How else [...]
The forces behind currency markets and what makes them tick is always an interesting topic, especially when you talk about the Nigerian naira. The strength of a country’s currency is often in direct proportion to their fiscal health and political stability, and this can clearly be seen when you look at the Nigerian economy.The Naira has been battling all kinds [...]
At last, former President Goodluck Jonathan appears to have found his mojo. In recent speech after speech, he’s been taking the fight to the doorstep of the ruling All Progressives Congress and causing quite a stir.Until now, the only thing Jonathan could remember as his achievement after six years in office was the transfer of power.Yet, he often spoke about [...]
Public service is a vocation. It is a call to rise above the self and serve the public. This public service ethos is often not understood or is at best taken for granted. This is especially so in a situation where the primary goal is to extract as much personal gains as possible from the proverbial national cake.Abuja, as the [...]
In Nigeria, we have incredible appetite for the dramatic. Irrespective of how uncomplicated an issue or situation is, Nigerians will build a muddled plot around it and end up confusing themselves and as many people of the world as get interested.A mortal being, who has seen and fought many wars and is possibly closer to 90 than his official 74 [...]
Last year around October, the Senate passed a bill seeking to stop sexual abuse of female students in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. The bill, titled: “Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Education Institution Prohibition Bill, 2016” sponsored by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, prescribed a 5-year jail term for lecturers and educators convicted of sexual harassment of their male or female students. The bill also [...]
It is not very often you are called upon to be part of a conversation that involves a behemoth and a global giant (not in size as per land mass or population) but with credibility built over the decades, I’m writing this piece aboard an African bird with a Livery that is authentically African and that is Ethiopian Air which [...]
Give it to inimitable MKO Abiola. Proverbs, by his transliteration of a Yoruba wit, provide the lubricant with which words are calibrated to achieve highest possible meaning. Wit is the horse on which words ride and vice versa. In one of his expansive moments, MKO would joke that one of his unfulfilled childhood dreams was to be a doctor. Why? [...]
Today -- Tuesday -- makes it 100 days since President Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria for a second medical vacation in the United Kingdom, only in 2017. The president has spent more days in the UK than he has in his home country. He has undoubtedly broken many records and set new ones. And now, many Nigerians are worried about Nigeria [...]
I was really excited on Saturday when I received news of the eventual visit of President Muhammadu Buhari’s media team to him in London. I had always felt that the exclusion of the media team from the London medical vacation and the various visits practically undermined the presidential media office, and created the space for the mismanagement of the communication [...]
