The easiest way a government and a ruling political party can dilute the faith, the confidence, and the authority placed in them by the people is...
For the first time in a long while, I spent four days in Lagos last week to participate in three events. But it was last Thursday...
The China-Africa Public Diplomacy Forum, a symposium organized by the Chinese Government, held on Tuesday in Dares Salaam, Tanzania. Invited to speak on the theme “Advancing...
You know what they say about democracy being ‘a government of the people, by the people and for the people’? Where the electorates are given the...
I get confused these days reading many of the posts on social media, and text messages sent through cell phones, because of the kind of new...
One argument being pushed by the Federal Government (via Osinbajo et al) and supporters of fuel subsidy removal (appropriate pricing, deregulation, downstreaming, market remedy –...
Last week, alleged herdsmen armed with rapid-fire guns and machetes descended on the Ukpabi Nimbo community in Enugu State, killing and maiming scores of victims. Images...
My earliest memories of the “Bororo” — that is what we call the Fulani nomads — are not pleasant at all. It was in the late...
“Ol’boy, man don see something oh.” “Wetin you see?” “My eyes don see something. My ears don hear, and my mouth sef, I for talk something...
Bukola Saraki, the enormously corrupt and filthy rogue who rose to the position of Nigeria’s number three citizen after robbing a bank and a state blind,...
On 30th July, 2013, the parents of the ten Directorate of State Security (DSS) operatives killed two months earlier by the Ombatse cult in Nasarawa State...
During the Jonathan administration, an outspoken opposition spokesperson had argued that Nigeria was on auto-pilot, a phrase that was gleefully even if ignorantly echoed by an...