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…
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…
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…
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…
