Michael Egbejumi-David

In actuality, all of our democratic leaders have been recruited and put into office by tribal and political warlords. Jonathan is the latest stooge occupying our national centre stage...

The octogenarian mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped right from inside their palace last week.  Of course it had to happen in Delta State, the home of corrugated kidnapping...

Our younger brother’s wife was bleeding, losing a lot of blood, laid out on a bed at the National Hospital, Abuja.  She had just delivered a baby, their second in just over two years.  My sister informed me that despite serious pleas from everyone in the family, from clinical staff at the hospital, and from concerned strangers, my brother refused to give his consent for his wife to have blood transfusion...

Nigerians!  We are very good at our usual copy, copy.  We can’t wait to follow, follow.  We love honour and adulation but we are never prepared to put in the commensurate hard work.  Shortcuts and arbitrariness is our thing.  When and how did Mrs Fashola become a Dame?

It is a poorly kept secret that, in the Jonathan household, the Mrs, Patience, is the one who wears the pants.  She rules the roost.  She is the one in charge; the boss...

Thankfully, things are a lot calmer; let us look again at the re-christening of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) a bit more dispassionately.  President Jonathan, in a recent broadcast, directed that UNILAG would henceforth be known as Moshood Abiola University...

Nigeria is never in short supply of enablers.  They are scattered all over the nation, but most of them reside in the southern part of the country.  A disproportionate number of them are from the South-East.  One or two are from Edo State.  A gaggle can be found in the South-West...

From the manger of made-in-Nigeria Sharia came news a couple of weeks ago that some elites in that State have written a petition to the House of Assembly to protest the revocation of land allocated to them by the previous State government...