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Whenever I’m invited to reflect critically on the condition of the state in Africa using Nigeria as an example, I always love to unpack the philosophical underpinnings of Orile Ede, if only to illustrate how and why Nigeria’s project nationhood was doomed from the very beginning...
My issue with Obasanjo is his abject abdication of responsibility and refusal to take the blame, as a good and great leader should do. He practically admitted that people in his government were corrupt, but tried desperately to absolve himself of any blame. This in itself was corruption...
People always think politics is a game, but I always beg to differ. It is no longer a game when politicians make political decisions which affect the lives of millions of people, which determines their standard of living, their daily livelihood, their health and wellbeing, their security and in fact the very essence of their being alive...
Nigeria deserves a better government that will be responsive to the yearnings of its people. Records indicate that twelve of the last thirteen Nigerian Presidents and Heads of State were circumstantial leaders...
The State of Ibadan should be seen as a vehicle of development and social engineering. It has proved its worth both in gold and silver. Ibadan has accommodated the Egbas, Ijebus, Ijeshas, Ekitis, Deltans, Igbo, Hausas and other nationalities for centuries...
Our Minister for Justice and Attorney General has always been a barrier and stumbling block to progress in the anti-corruption fight. I really cannot comprehend how Nigeria came to have such people as Aondoakaa and others of his ilk in government...
It takes a sophisticated degree of disingenuousness for anybody to refuse to understand that the greatest impediment to the Nigerian brand – if there is any - is the Nigerian state symbolized by the Federal Government and Aso Rock...
Nigeria’s image problem has a long history. It is the cumulative outcome of many years of failure to which various governments have contributed their share in varying measures…
Abia is one of the states that lay the golden eggs for Nigeria. However, it has become a state where the roads being constructed are mostly done with shovels, whereas in the United States Orji had gone to enjoy himself, sophisticated machines are used in the construction of roads...
To an indolent mind, sexing data to pump up GDP figures is an example of how politicians lie with statistics. But a critical mind will see the ingenuity in such an expansion of the base of the estimates that make up a country’s GDP, as such illicit activities as smuggling, child trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking and corrupt practices are part of the underbelly of every modern society...
By the time the ravaging global liquidity crush, which started on Wall Street in September 2008, was over, Nigeria's own version of the financial fiasco couldn't be more dramatic. Dropping from N13.5 trillion to N4.6 trillion, the country's stock market had lost a monstrous N8.9trillion...
Nigeria is not poor because we lack natural resources or because nature was cruel to us. We are poor because we lack the correct attitude...
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