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Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Withheld Salaries: Adeleke’s Faulty Steps

Mutatis mutandis, politics is not the same as repudiating the ethics of public administration. To say that the executive governor of a state has...

Peter Obi Presidency will be Breakfast for Nigerians

Dear Mr Peter Obi, in my recent memo to Bola Tinubu, I said that the reason I don’t believe in him is that politicians...

Memo to a Tinubu

Dear Mr Tinubu, there are many very-well placed people around me who often express confidence in your ability to rescue Nigeria from the Buhari...

2023: The Other Side Of The Story!

In most human societies, visible phenomena are oftentimes credited or associated with the causes of other events. Then, the analysis will take off from...

Taking Society For Granted!

Whenever a section of the society wants to embark on something new, it’ll first fly a kite. To sane minds, flying a kite is...

Counting Between the Votes of the 2023 Polls

Though the sound of 2023 general elections appear to have come and gone, the decibel of its fury is definitely yet to abate. There...

Vote My Tribe Or I Kill You

Democracy has been turned into coup at the polls – and the result is announced in the darkest wee hours when robbers are wont...

The Ground Zero

A few years ago, a pandemic stuck our world, it’s effect totally changed the way we interact. In the midst of the catastrophe brought by...

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Naija Notes: Sitting On A Time Bomb

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Ivan Snowden: International Law on Asylum and Espionage

A young American who was entrusted with national security duties, absconded with a trove of vital national intelligence materials and later surfaced in Hong Kong. He later slipped out of his hotel in the height of night and boarded a Moscow-bound Aeroflot. He landed on a Russian chess-board...

Congratulations Nigeria!

I write to congratulate the people and government of Nigeria on the deployment of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from the finance ministry to the ministry of foreign affairs...

Osun guber, AMBO Team and Road Ahead

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Igbo Music: Where Are The Gongs And Flutes?

When highlife ruled the airwaves in Nigeria in the past decades, voices of Igbo musicians and others of south East extraction added to its popularity. But in the burgeoning contemporary music scene in Nigeria, the distinct voice of Igbo music has become muffled...

Support Your Local Sheriff, The EFCC

The fight against corruption is not an easy fight, as I have observed and noted during my travel to Nigeria and interaction with the main players of the fight. The officials charged with this task are forever wary of threats to their lives and the threat of removal if the corrupt persons have their way through lobbying...

Jega’s Misstep and the Nigerian Conversation

There’s no question that Nigeria must be re-negotiated. Its constitution is an enabler of serial abuses – including the tyranny of Abuja over state capitals and the federalization of resources that ought to belong to states. That’s why Nigerians ought to look beyond Mr. Jega’s elections...

An Open Letter to Mr. Inye Harry (2)

I do not know you. You do not know me. In other words, I am writing this letter to you because you have made statements that affect me. You have told lies against a man you knew nothing about. You have dragged his name in the mud...

When I Lost My Virginity…

I really can't remember what came over me that fateful Saturday night. It was as though someone had sent an intense but strange shockwave that deadened my conscience till I lost grip of my long-held resolve to be celibate...

Ignorance Is a Disease

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...