The Senate Chamber may be a Buka where “judicial delicacies” are served to feed our gluttonous politicians courtesy of Senator Bulkachuwa’s half revealed nature of how seats are gotten in the Senate. The other half may end like Chimamanda’s Half of the Yellow Sun, with Anne Giwa Amu’s claim to the original half, except God the righteous Judge steps in. The red carpeted and furnished Chamber doesn’t look like a place that even an insane man will be comfortable to throw a banana peel. But the mischievous have their way of doing things, that exactly was what El-Rufai did with…
Author: Dr Bolaji Akinyemi
The article titled; “IGP Egbetokun Starts Off on Wrong Foot”, was sent out through my WhatsApp platform on Wednesday, 28th June 2023 at 12:58PM, in an hour it had gone viral and by 3:36PM, that’s within 2 hours 22mins, I got a call, the interaction with the caller will shift my position and change the narrative. The new IGP is a man I don’t think I have ever met. Not withstanding, we have expectation within the context of our situation in Nigeria. When his appointment was announced, our hopes were raised in the capacity of a man that may have…
An English adage I heard since my primary school days has translated into a philosophy of life. It says: “Never put a cart before the horse.” Egbetokun can’t afford to fail, and therefore should be very careful. The Nigerian police has repeated insecurity class since 2015. I don’t think it is a good one for any organisation to be in the same spot or class for a period of 8 years, yet its officers are getting promoted! Egbetokun can’t rely on the institution of the Nigerian Police as it were today to provide him system re-invention to lift the service.…
Tribal warlords abound in our political space, cloaked in coats of deception under the guise of religion! They come in the garb of Muslims and also as Christians. For the latter, tribe is their first love and the King and his Kingdom they have no consideration for! A mischievous group under the banner of Christian Ministers who refer to themselves as Pentecostal Association of Nigeria and Diaspora, PAND, have come out to kick against the pricks over what they termed as the alleged refusal of Lagos PFN Chairman to leave office after his eight-year tenure! Their simple lack of understanding…
Tinubu ‘s One-Month-old Presidency; EFCC Chairman will Determine What to Expect from this Administration One of the most enterprising speech ever made in view of good governance within a democratic system was made by Christine Margarete Anderson, a German politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. A member of the Alternative for Germany. She said and I quote; “I’m really imploring the people and all the people around the world. For God sake, stop giving your democratically elected governments the benefit of the doubt. They are not deserving of that, they are not, stop…
A viral message affirming the above subject recently went viral causing needless apprehension in the Body of Christ in Nigeria, no thanks to what the experience of Christians have been under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari in the past 8 years. Many thanks however to the new leadership of Christian Association Nigeria, led by His Eminence, Most Rev’d Dr Daniel C. Okoh, which witnessed a Two-Day National Christian Education Stakeholders Summit, under the theme: Redeeming The Mandate of Educational System Through Christian Education For National Transformation. Hosted by the Christian Association of Nigeria, through the office of His Eminence,…
Thrills of moments that inspire us to be happy and trauma of moments that dampen our spirit to be sad are hidden in the memories we hold of our past; this comprise persons we have met and places we have been. Nothing hurts our present like the past, particularly things done wrong or that could have been done better. While the past can’t be corrected, same past holds the door knob to a beautiful future if our present is invested in not attempting to cover the past but admit the wrong done in them, thereby embracing reconciliation and moving on…
Ahead of today’s inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, the political intrigues to make Akpabio the Senate President in order to deliver the deal he brokered with Mr President for stepping down for him during APC primary saw all arsenals deployed; moral and immoral. The battle was fierce. Sensitively to its role as the leading opposition and the direction it provided, the PDP stood with Yari to emerge as the choice of the Senate against the decision of Mr President and the leadership of APC his party. Before the contest, the Peoples Democratic Party accused the ruling APC of plotting…
Since Tinubu was sworn in as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the horse I rode through the period of campaign seems to have died a natural death to many Christians. My cry of “Islamization Agenda” is like the roaring of a lion at the city centre, it can be nothing but a technological sound effect. But why should I be given to such mischief without any reason. After my article; 10th Senate; A Greater Nigeria Project was published yesterday, I have received calls from leaders in the Church that I have great respect for. None seemed…
My passion to see a better and greater Nigeria was extended to the next line of leadership in our democratic government after the Executive; the legislature. Senate leadership precisely. My sentiment for a Senate President of southeast extraction was fired by what my experience was on my trip to Umahia, Abia state, to witness the inauguration of Dr Alex Oti, as I earlier reported in my article titled; 10th Senate Presidency: My Appeal to PDP Senators. My appeal did not fall on deaf ears, as I was privileged with audience by PDP Senators. Politics is a game of number played…
Apostolic Roundtable is a solutions driven ideology at attending to our nation’s challenges. Our experiences in this regard has been very profound. Participation in our meetings by our constituency of faith is quite encouraging. Our views are respected, this however does not come easy. Sticking on facts of our nation’s realities as a platform of leadership Conference devoid of sentiments is the basis for our acceptance across various known lines of divides. Recently we held ATS which was organised to lead Lagos State and the nation at large to the path of peace after a very stormy 2023 election. The…
Your Excellency Sir, Much as I would have loved to congratulate you over the last election in which you were declared the winner by Independent National Electoral Commission. I am compelled to hold my peace; for justice is like a pendulum clock no one should tell its time until it sounds it. On justice we are waiting to tell what time it is for Lagos and Nigeria. The exigencies of the declaration somersault of electoral victory peculiar to our Country Nigeria, has listed us among the fair and law abiding citizen waiting for the final decision of the judiciary on…
Copies of a petition filed by Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, challenging the victory of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after the election held on February 25, has surfaced online. Nigerians are thronging the link. Obi, among other prayers, wants the Court of Appeal to disqualify Tinubu over his alleged conviction in the US in 1993 for drug dealing. Obi’s petition holds that Tinubu “was fined $460,000 for an offence involving dishonesty, namely narcotics trafficking imposed by the United States District…
We have had it rough with our economy through mismanagement and its twin sister of manifest gross incompetence on the account of handlers of our economy, but the anchor of woe holding us perpetually down at the harbour of misery is cast by the Captain of our ship- President Muhammadu Buhari. The inability of the “NEPA bill” certified ruler was finally laid to rest on the Naira redesign policy saga,. How in the world did he allow Emefiele to confuse him into this unending trauma of naira redesign and swap? The presidential election was the reason given; to stop vote…
At exactly 4:10am, Mahmood Yakubu the Chairman of INEC, the only one empowered by the constitution to declare the results of our presidential election has acted, thus igniting the mood of celebration in Lagos, a state, his pronounced winner lost to Obi during the election. Whether the declaration is constitutional or not, lawyers will tell us. His proclaimed winner, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while the results were being collated had adviced those who may not be disposed to the outcome of the result to go to court. It reminded me of an East African proverb which states; “Whenever a thief…
Our potential in aviation was limitless having inherited an airport, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, which was first built during the second world war as a lifting ground for the British Royal Army. It became the operation ground for Nigeria Airways founded in 1958 after the dissolution of West African Airways Corporation WAAC, the Federal Government owned 51% until 1961 when it boosted its shareholding to 100% and made it the country’s flag bearer. The new terminal was modeled after Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol and was commissioned by General Olusegun Obasanjo, the head of the outgoing military Government who will…
Of course he who stirs the Hornet’s nest, the insect will come after him. I daily live in compromise of my safety, a lot of friends are wondering why stick your neck out for a nation that doesn’t deserve it! But Nigeria deserves more than what she is getting from her citizens. And all necks are out for the sword whether stuck out or not. Rev Andimi’s neck wasn’t stuck out, Deborah’s neck wasn’t either, the killers came for them. The insecurities of our nation determines which neck is next, I can only pray that solution will come our way…
Thief! Thief!! Thief!!! The shout rends the air, in the most unlikely place, the burial ceremony of an illustrious son of Ikirun where the atmosphere was expected to be solemn in honour of the one to whom all have come to pay there last respect! Who was the thief and what has he stolen? It has been 4 years, 4 months and 18 days after the September 22, 2018 election believed to be a fraud against the people held in Osun. Segun Agbaje was the head of INEC in Osun, the umpire who enable the people’s empire to be raided…
Apostolic Round Table 2023: One Man has come and gone, the success story of ART is told on the streets. For humility, the sacrifice of success is not often told and proteges are left to struggle sometimes unduly when finding their path. Our eyes are on the next programme, Image-Nation but let’s reflect on some of the sacrifices while soliciting your support and partnership. The system and the street run side by side in Lagos. Recently at Cele express, a yellow bus plying one way caused a fatal accident, as the utility truck carrying a container in a bid to…
The invincibility of Fulani in our political space is far more than what can be seen and measured. From the conquest of Sokoto and northern Nigeria till date, their expansionism and entrenchment hasn’t abated. That is who Fulanis are, and Datti is one of them! The younger brother of Hakeem Baba-Ahmed on whom I wrote: *”Northern Elders and Their Mouth from Mauritania”.* Reminding me of Datti’s Fulani identity is needless. Our experience with the tribe might have been generally not pleasant, but no tribe is entirely bad and none is outrightly good! Datti, I hope will be the good report…
2023 Presidency: Northern Leaders Optimistic Kwankwaso Will Step Down For Atiku – Daily Independent. That was the headline of confirmation for me published on the front page of Daily Independent Newspaper of Monday the 30th day of January 2023, after been troubled by the political trajectory of my moment of honour to which I was invited by ACIPA. The angels in the hallowed chamber of the National Headquarters of the ECWA Church in Jos, must have been as surprised as I was, when ACIPA DAY 2023 took a turn for political marketing engineered by Fulani nation using one from…
Sitting in a regal seat, lofting emptily in an authority beyond the seat he occupies. An accused sat in the seat of the jury to prosecute his own case. He accused *Aboki fx,* judged, threatened and declared a man wanted without any name mentioned! In my article; *Nigerians And The Nigeria Project (Part 2)* written in my column; Happy Sunday and published on my blog. I x-rayed the plight of Nigerian women, market women in particular who are often snared in financial pains by every attempt to raise the quantity of their wares to “Komu le lantern”! A phenomenal hardship…
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic – Williams E. Gladstone. The argument for Muslim/Muslim ticket found strength in the ambitions of the one who was behind it. His emotion and that of his political cronies couldn’t accommodate reasoning in view of history and the reality of today. Their hand was on a vehicle without wheels on the sandy path of reality. Hard they pushed; too stuck and stranded they have come. But desperate minds don’t let go their…
Our determination to see the Nigeria project through to completion is no longer in doubt, even to the naysayers! And those who desire to see her greatness along with us once again so as to ‘eat the good’ loaded in the land that flows with milk and honey, must come to terms with what the issues are. “Eni ma je oyin inu apata ki wo enu ake”, the person who desires to eat honey from the rock must not be concerned about the axe. Better be ready for more than politics and its rhetorics at addressing what our issues are.…
By Bolaji O. Akinyemi His Excellency, Nasir El-Rufai must have been advised against attending the funeral and burial of victims of a coordinated 21st century genocide of minority tribes who are majorly Christians by persons suspected to be his tribesmen. I sincerely look out for the representative or at least a letter from him as the Chief Security Officer of the state who has consistently failed at securing the people. Excuses in failure can sometimes be comforting to a set of stupid people, but he offered none; giving us no opportunity to measure our stupidity as a people. The assumed…
Boko Haram and Political Treachery: the Borno Model for Oyo State, Southwestern Nigeria Conquest was the introduction to my promise to reveal the economic dimension for personal and group gain of those who are tormenting us for their profiting; hiding behind the cloak of religion. As I was putting pen to paper, there surfaced a video of Major Al-Mustapha on the plundering of our resources in Sambisa and other parts of Northern Nigeria. He was in his usual element; fully power drunk, candidly flippant, revealing facts but hiding truth. I will let us into the untold side of Al-Mustapha’s reason…
Friday, 25th November 2022 looks like every other day at Queens School, Ibadan till lights out occured and girls went on their beds at the hostels. An usual occurrence patterned after Government Girls Secondary School at Chibok invasion in Borno state under Shettima as the Executive Governor was scuttled by a brave Security Guard who though, a Muslim paid the supreme price with his life in defence of girls who were Christians and Muslims! That is leadership! The story was reported by the Tribune Online as a robbery; “Suspected armed robbers have killed a security guard during a raid on…
A visit to Ibadan on Wednesday, 16th November 2022 was initiated to pledge my loyalty to CAN (Christian Association of Nigeria) leadership in Oyo state. It was indeed a very refreshing moment as we spoke extensively on the state of the nation. From the prophetic came words beyond what the streets can fathom nor the public digest. I would rather be quiet until the appointed time. As it is written in the Holy Book “the vision is for an appointed time, though it tarries, wait for it”. We will wait till 25th February 2023 to see what God will say…
Leadership is a combination of charisma and character. The former is a pointer to the ability that can get the work done while the latter portrays the personality needed for the job. Of course, our country’s greatest need is leadership but it is important to put our need in context of the revelation of the present Anambra state Governor, Chukwuma Soludo on Peter Obi. We need to clearly understand that there is work to be done, but beyond the work to be done is who does it. Ours is a society that has turned value on her head; money seems…
Politics is structured to strategically divide, whence the purpose of the Church is to unite! The Church as The Body of Christ has no life in partisan politics, yet she is the shoulders upon which God’s plan for good governance is placed. This predicament calls for caution and wisdom for us to play in the space where individual citizens with interest in politics irrespective of tribe or religion must be encouraged! As the light of the world and the salt of the earth, our focus must square on giving serious attention to public *advocacy* efforts to confront poverty; promoting political…
