Fayose for President, Dino for Nobel Prize!
The caption for this piece was originally meant to be “Strange Things In A Strange Country” but at the last…
Biafra: The Future Is Now!
Last week some misguided Arewa youths in Kaduna issued an ultimatum to the Igbos living doing business in all northern…
Locating the Real Enemies of Nigeria
There is an age long presumption in Nigeria’s political discourse about the existence of a Hausa-Fulani axis of evil that…
On the Path to Perdition (Part 2)
I woke up from my nightmarish slumber with a loud scream that woke up everybody in my house. Sitting up…
On the Path to Perdition (Part I)
Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have…
Why Aisha Yesufu Goofed!
In security parlance, officers are trained to be firm, fair and consistent to safeguard their safety and the security of…
Kingibe and the Cabal In Aso Rock
Ambassador Babagana Kingibe is a Nigerian veteran politician who could be said to belong eminently to the gerontocratic generation. They…
Lai Mohammed: An Unmanageable Mistake!
When President Muhammadu Buhari announced the people he has selected to occupy some of the most strategic positions in his…
Boko Brothers and Haram Sisters
Before President Buhari left Abuja for London to, yet again, take care of his deteriorating health he had hosted some…
The Coup Scare and the Political Class
When Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), declared that Senator Dino Melaye was once…
The Thieves at Seme Border
That Nigeria is a lawless country is an under-statement. And that ‘anything-goes’ is the order of the day is also…
The Man Refuses To Die!
The fingertip of Esau, the voice of Jacob touched the internet again a few days ago, via those whose stock…
Minna Sanhedrin and More Pertinent Issues
The symbolic event of Friday, May 11, 2017, had occupied my mind for some time: the day multitudes of Nigerian…
Between Certificate and ‘Cerfiticate’!
Education is strategically vital to the development and greatness of any nation. It remains the key to unlocking the socio-economic…
Aso Rock and the Hovering Vultures
Lexicographers have their ways with terminologies. What, for instance, is the relationship between a wake of vultures and a wake…
A Crucial Message To My Igbo Brothers and Sisters
This is the time to begin to clamor for restructuring of Nigeria. The real Igbo man or woman should be…