Frank Talk

How State Governors Brought Hunger on Nigerians As Nigeria’s journey has been a journey of grace because of the leaders she was blessed with since independence that keep plunging the nation into political, economic, social and religious abyss, the recent hunger and everyday hyperinflation that partly resulted into protest across the nation, no doubt raised so many questions about the …

Question Northern Leaders Must Answer: Who Wins Boko Haram War? As the cardinal objective of the Islamist Jihadist Organisation called Boko Haram in Nigeria is the eradication of western education, the continuous presence of the aftermath of their operations against school pupils in the north, beginning from the historic abduction of the 276 school girls at Government Girls Secondary School, …

Nigeria and the Prophecy As the holy book in 2 Chronicle 20:20 posits: “Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper”, we must in a time like this, when everything seems to be falling apart in the history of our dear Nigeria, begin to examine how the Nigeria of yesterday …

Create State Police Now- Delay Worsens Insecurity   As the focal legitimacy of any government is measured by its ability to secure the lives and property of the governed, the vehement and protracted refusal of Nigerian government to create state police in spite of the various expression of support to same from different quarters of the society has contributed immensely …

MAD House: No More Art For Art’s Sake But Art For Economic’s Sake- A Dialogue With Bayo Omoboriowo.   As the beauty of creativity can be traced to it being a spontaneous overflow of emotion, the concept of art for art’s sake which has infused several movements in the world of art has served as a limiting factor to the commercialization …

Reassessing Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Its Passage The recent expression of grief by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ola Olukoyede on the craze for gratification and quest for bribe by some of the investigators in his commission, has re-opened before us a similar book of lamentation two years ago by his predecessor, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on …

Despite the financial cacophony currently rocking the boat of our dear humanitarian ministry making an attempt to redefine womanhood in Nigeria, it would be less of an act of God and a great disservice to humanity to generalise such misdemeanor and thus exempt women from leadership equation. This presupposes that their pride of place vis-a-vis the full implementation of the …

I start this narrative on this succinct topic explaining the very unfortunate ongoing armed struggle between the state of Israel and non state actor Hamas. I was reluctant to write on the ongoing saga, because it seemed to me for good reasons that no fate decrees that the Palestinians and Israelis will be back into the past and play old …

BAT has been a symbol of political rebirth in Nigeria. This national political rebirth is the single most sought unity in all the geo-political zones in Nigeria. Some may curse it for continuing austerity measures it inherited from past governments for the country that knows all too well the dangers inherent with that policy.The previous government has retreated from fuel …

The last 63 years of Nigeria’s post colonial period was notable for political upheavals exacerbated by Military coups that brought the civil war and acts of armed robberies, insurgencies, terrorism and banditry. It was also the period we witnessed the creation of states from 12 to 36 including the FCT Abuja in an effort to bring governance closer to people. …