Bobrisky and Emefiele: The Judgment Between. Tongues have really been wagging since the incarceration of the cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye Olarewaju, popularly known as Bobrisky, after pleading guilty of the offences leveled against him before Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos and the release on bail of Nigeria’s former Central Bank…
This Thing Called “Palliative” The latest avoidable death in the house of the Senator representing Sokoto North in the National Assembly, Aliyu Wamakko during the distribution of palliatives for the just concluded Muslim festival, has not only given leadership in Nigeria reasons to bow their heads in shame but also bigger reasons to question the…
Youth in Governance: Africa in Senegal’s Story The emergence of Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a 44 years old writer and tax collector, as the 5th democratically elected President of the Republic of Senegal, has again brought up a vital subject about African leadership, particularly at a time when the continent grapples with serious challenge of development…
As Adolf Joffe wrote Leon Trotsky shortly before his death by suicide, that human life has meaning only to that degree and as long it is lived in the service of humanity, it is side-splitting that many leaders in Africa award meaning to human life in reverse order and live in opulence rather than urbane…
Budget Padding and Matter Arising – Constituency Project As the word “padding” has gradually instituted its way into our democratic lexicon, it is ironical that after two decades of unbroken democracy and repetition of cases regarding “budget padding”, many Nigerians including our distinguished lawmakers are yet to grasp its full meaning. Budget padding is an…
@ Wigwe’s Burial: Akpabio and His Diatribe against the Dead The African proverb that “one who has children never dies” has raised many debates among scholars about the mortality and immortality of man, particularly on what it takes for a man to live forever. As the conviction of some people concerning this proverb is unadulterated,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
