Olu Ojedokun

Since the call from ‘The Nigerian Front’ to the organs of government and to Nigerian electorate, the Presidency has moved to reduce the excessive monetary allowances, which the members of the National Assembly voted for themselves...

Every generation is often presented with opportunities to offer definition, scope and direction to its nation.  This extends to the construction of defining values, the anchoring of the nation’s progress and creating an all-inclusive space for its development...

The current narrative of the many UK based ‘African Majority’ Pentecostal Churches is the clinging to the fantasy that the ‘Men/Women of God’ who serve them are perfect.  That they can do no wrong, have no weaknesses and live and embody perfect lives...

With the reversals by the courts of some gubernatorial electoral ‘victories’ of the PDP in the South West the focus in the media and the internet chatter fora has now shifted to the person of the ‘Asiwaju’, ’Bola Tinubu of Lagos.  To some the man awaits canonisation as a saint and to others he attracts vilification...

Many have suggested, including I, that perhaps our national deliverance will come from those residing in Diaspora, however, my recent experience does not bare this out...

We cannot be content at home and abroad, limiting ourselves to religious activities such as church planting and having mega pseudo-religious conferences without a corresponding transformation of the Diaspora and the Nigerian society.  These activities must demonstrate their relevance by affecting the people around us...

It appears that the recent but unavoidable drama made out of the late President Yar’Adua’s health by the so called ‘cabal’ was motivated by moves to subvert and manipulate the constitution for personal and selfish gain...

A few weeks have now elapsed since Yar'Adua's arrival in Nigeria in the dead of the night and yet no credible sightings of him are available to anyone.  Nigeria and the world are left in the dark, fed with rumours for crumbs...