The mantra making the rounds now in the opposition circles is: Buhari is the change we need. One wonders how much of this Buhari the orchestrators...
I am a Nigerian who loves his country and am hopeful about what it can become. I have seen and conducted myself as a patriot long...
Nigeria’s constitution both past and present proclaims the secularity of the Nigerian state. According to Wikipedia, a Secular state is a concept of secularism, whereby a...
What’s in a name? Nothing, says Western culture, for a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Everything, say the cultures of Africa, for...
The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept...
By Ogundana Michael Rotimi You may want to ask me; what has President Jonathan done to deserve this? But I ask you what has President Jonathan...
The nomination of General Muhammadu Buhari as the All Progressive Congress (APC) Party candidate for the 2015 presidential election rang out with traditional fervor and glad...
No matter what happens next year, 2015 promises to be another defining moment in our history. It would either be the year when all the citizens...
This morning in Dakar, Senegal, an International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa kicks off, as a follow-up to an earlier one (December 2013) convened...
“This generation of Nigerians, and indeed future generations, have no country other than Nigeria. We shall remain here and salvage it together.”—Buhari, 1984. “We seek a...
‘Nigeria’s condition today under your watch is, however, too dangerous for silence.’ – Chinua Achebe to then President Olusegun Obasanjo Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s memoirs entitled ‘My...
You are watching a two-hour movie. President Goodluck Jonathan is the “actor” (that’s what we used to call the main character as kids). It is just...
