Off With These Military Brought Ups!
When the khaki boys struck on the 15th of January, 1966, expectations within the populace, who had grown tired of the political class, were initially sky-high. The jackboots were hailed…
Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe and Nigeria’s arrested Development
Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe, Philosopher, Statesman and Physician in his Autobiography titled, FOOTPRINTS AND FOOTNOTES, revealed he visited the then President Olusegun Obasanjo forty times in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Akinkugbe…
Why the Igbos are Marginalised in the Geopolitics of Governance in Nigeria
This is the time to strategize and clamor for the emergence of an Igbo president of Nigeria in 2023 after the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari. The real Igbo…
Mourning My Country Part II
I must have sounded very caustic, cynical, contemptuous and sentimental – as some would have by now concluded – in the blunt manner I randomly carpeted the razzmatazz that accompanied…
A Quick Precautionary Note To Buharists And Buharideens!
Watchers and political strategists of unfolding global political events will not underestimate Atiku’s candidacy in Nigeria. Buhari and Buharists shouldn’t thread that road too, or be complacent to see Atiku’s…
That PDP Dollarized Primary and the Renewed Campaign Against Vote-Buying
After the Ekiti governorship election, where it was bested by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) raised a terse allegation that it was outdone in that…
Ambode: Why we shouldn’t dismantle the ladder of success
The results of the APC primary election in Lagos State few days ago is very instructive. What we must take away from it is the potent power of the ordinary…
Tinubu, and Ambode’s Scrotum
Nigerian politics is a funny amphitheater of absurdity. It would have been the funniest comedy skit, if not that it is dangerously toying with the lives and destiny of over…
Mourning My Country
I beg the readers of this piece to excuse my rather sarcastic, pessimistic and raucously discordant tone, which is born out of my candid disapproval of the pomp and pageantry…
None of us will leave this World alive!
I always refuse to put all the blame on the British for our current maladies and unfortunate circumstances. Yes, they seem to have handed over to some ill-prepared leaders, but…