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Somehow, in the wake of the high drama that followed last week's arrest of the AC gubernatorial candidate for Osun State in the April 2007 election, Engr. Rauf Aregbesola, I got thinking about how this country has sank to a huge Animal Farm...
For several years, Nigerian leaders could afford to just sit still and do nothing, because the auto-pilot directing the big, well-populated jet called Nigeria was yet to be totally out of order. But now, in this year of Umar Musa Yar’Adua, the auto-pilot has completely packed up...
Since I came home, I have had the opportunity through my previous and current employers to travel around Nigeria; I have interacted with various Nigerians discussing Nigeria, their plans, dreams and hopes. I follow the news daily through the media but must admit that I haven’t been encouraged one bit...
A corrupt government is one that extends unlawful jurisdiction over the people it is supposed to protect. A corrupt government is one that legislates beyond its rightful power by erecting laws that do injury to liberty, justice, and individual rights. A corrupt government believes that might make right, and that its mission is to curtail freedom and information to the public and claiming it is acting in their best interest...
If the Nigerian state will not protect her citizens from their own excesses, should it also then kill them to satisfy the notion of peace for elitist satisfaction? Who benefits from this much sought peace in Nigeria, and can there really be peace in the midst of poverty, ignorance, class chasm, inequality and pervasive injustice?
For those who parroted the sincere commitment of Umaru Yar'Adua to the rule of law, it is becoming obvious that the man and his government are more interested in how such empty sloganeering aids their political interests...
Less than a year ago, I found myself writing about a crisis in Northern Nigeria. This time around its the Bauchi 'Boko Haram' religious crisis. While I am not trying to be a prophet of doom, I know that I might find myself again writing about another Northern Nigerian crisis after this...
If indeed, Nigeria, was at some point a house fit for the habitation of its people; is it then safe to conclude, that at its founding, it was the output of the intelligent design of its colonial architects and, therefore, fit for purpose and structurally sound?
Chances are, growing up, you partook – as audience or celebrant – in a very colourful tapestry of ancestral liturgies: Ogun festival, Sango festival, Imole festival, Egungun festival, and, of course, Oro festival, the fear of which is the beginning of wisdom for Yoruba women...
Having sojourned in Europe for almost 10 years, I now have hopes that I may probably have a country to which I can return. It is glaring that my countrymen have decided to take their destinies in their own hands...
Abia people have severally carried coffins in Abia State to show their anger over a government that has not met with their heart's desire. Some of them have expressed their anger over non-payment of their salary...
To be a nuclear power, all you need is the audacity. Then fortify such audacity with a few chess moves. And you are in. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has audacity perhaps. But he has no underwriter friends. Saddam Hussein's attempts at strategic ambiguity caused him his throne, and then his life and the ruination of Iraq...
The duty of every red-blooded African man is to shine as many congos as earthly possible; while it is the duty of any and all blue-blooded African woman to make the man pay in cash and kind or with his sweat and blood. The days of free lunch are over...
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