Inauguration and the Challenge of Insecurity and Self-Help
On Wednesday, President Buhari had his inauguration for the second term in office. The period leading to the 2019 elections...
Opinions
Clubs, Cartels and Bilderberg
“After decades of neoliberalism, we are at the mercy of a cluster of cartels who are lobbying politicians hard and...
Metaphor of the ‘Missing’ Loaf
Last Friday, the Supreme Court sent a strong statement to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as the...
Tackling Suicide Scourge
Ever since reports of incessant suicide took over our socioeconomic wavelengths, I have had the opportunity of reading different opinion...
Lies in Politics: Boris Johnson, the Law and the European Union
An enduring memory of the 2016 Brexit campaign, so marked by the foppish-haired blusterer, Boris Johnson, was the claim that...
Okezie Ikpeazu: A Trans-Generational Leader, Fulfilling Promises, Securing the Future
As Dr Okezie Ikpeazu commences his “Second Missionary Journey” as Executive Governor of Abia State from May 29, 2019, people...
The End of Theresa May
The vultures of the British conservative party have gathered, and the individual who seemed to thrive in failure, to gain...
Dear Buhari, don’t end up making Jonathan, Obasanjo, IBB look like heroes by your failures
In Nigeria, governments come and go, but each one outpaces the other in impunity, non-performance, corruption and incompetence. Before the...
Nigeria, again unchaining the dogs of war
“Nigeria is not at peace and unity and cooperation with itself. Great chasms yawn between ethnographic, ethnofaith and ethnocentric groups....
Looking again at “revolution”
The word, “revolution”, is currently enjoying a political and lexical rehabilitation with Nigerians, especially the youths. Though still seen as...
“The FULANI Question: The De-Fulanisation of National Collectives”
Without trying to remind us of Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilisation", it's apt to say within the remix of the...
We must all be Fulani
Conspiracy theories are the palm oil of Nigeria’s politics. They give taste to falsehood, tension, fear and unrest. And often, they...
Let Bugaje Solve the Petroleum Malady
Professor Idris Muhammad Bugaje, the current rector of Kaduna Polytechnic is destined to rectify problems and provide solutions in leadership...
Of Suicides and the ‘Sniper’ Debate
The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul—David O....
Challenging Orthodoxies: Alabama’s Anti-Abortion Law
It seems like a grand ploy of massive distraction. On the surface, the move by Alabama to place the most...
Buhari, Elites and the Less-Privileged
Mercy, in the strict sense of the word is heartfelt sympathy for another’s distress, compelling us to help if we can. But,...
How to get a Nigerian passport within one week without paying a bribe
Until August 2017, I was the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), with the daunting task of...
Promises and the future: Sanwo-Olu and other Governors-elect
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State governor-elect and some of the other governors-elect across the country have been busy making promises...
Is the Sexual Offences Bill Against ‘Indecent Exposure’ a Coming Law Against Prostitution?
In the Sexual Offences Bill- herein after referred to as SOB- (I have refrained from identifying this Bill by any...
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches Mr. Buhari
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches Mr. Buhari By Prince Charles Dickson PhD “For four years, Mr. President, the nation...
Fani Kayode Praises Tinubu
Fani Kayode Praises Tinubu Former Aviation Minister and Nigeria’s enfant terrible Femi Fani Kayode has poured encomium on National Leader...
Critique of abstract politics
About the middle of 1985, the tendency to which I belonged in Nigeria’s Marxist Left met somewhere on the campus...
2019 Polls: Matters Arising
There are several issues arising from the way and manner the much-talked about 2019 elections were conducted and the results...
Nigerian Elections: A History and a Loss of Memory
When in December 2011, yours sincerely had an opportunity of a lifetime to visit Israeli museum built in memory of...
The Energy Challenges and way forward for MSMEs in Nigeria
In the quest to finding lasting solutions to the energy challenges that befall Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises in Nigeria...
Amaechi’s 54 Birthday: The Role of Exemplary Leadership in Governance with Security as a Case Study (Part One)
Preamble On the 27th of May, 2019, Rt. Hon. (Dr) Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, erstwhile governor of Rivers state, incumbent Minister...
That APC’s wager on Lawan and Gbaja
I do not look into crystal balls. That is not my preoccupation. I certainly lack the endowment of predicting the...
Youth in the Richest Continent Cry: Na poor I poor no be craze I craze
How did the Continent that produced the world’s richest man ever, Mansa Kankan Musa and the richest woman ever, Queen...
Bob Hawke: Misunderstood in Memoriam
What a cheeky way of going. Death is rarely a matter of good timing but it can be part of...
Amaechi’s 54 Birthday: His Feats In Agriculture Sector As A Case Study Of His Examplary Leadership In Governance (Part Two)
“The current problem we are having in Nigeria is tied to poverty and unemployment. I believe that one solution to...
