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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...

The Fire This Time

The presidency of Nigeria is so highly coveted that even expired players want to grab it “by fire, by force”, as the Pentecostals would...

Much ado about Osun LG elections

The Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) has announced October 15, 2022 as the date for Local Government and Local Council Development Area elections across...

Bestride Keyamo’s Jungle and Kanu’s Zoo

Unwittingly, Nigeria keeps owning up to all its many caricatures. Since its birth in 1914, and independence in 1960, the 'geographic expression' has had...

Nigeria, Political Choices and Consequences

To those who have been asking for my views on the last Osun governorship election, let me confess that the keenly contested election is...

Nigeria: Pains Of Misgovernance Have No Tribal Marks!

Many Nigerians are stuck with zero experience of what it means to live in a decently run society. Laden with a long history of...

Of President Humpty Dumpty and His Men

There's no understating the importance of primary schools in our lives. It matters less whether one 'attended' it at home, sans classmates. The privileged...

I Don’t Envy Nigeria’s Next President

I don´t envy Nigeria´s next president. Whoever steps into Aso Rock on the 29th of May, 2023, will be inheriting an Omni-dimensional catastrophe. He will...

Dumo Lulu Briggs: A Bridge Builder and Proponent of inclusive Government

As it is with politicians across the globe, and especially Nigeria whose business is politics, political campaign promises made by politicians to Nigerians as...

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Can You Imagine?

The dimwit, the mentally deranged or retarded, the idiot or stupid ones may not be in position to appreciate "imagination" as a divine endowment of Man, even though they possess one of its basic components...the heart...

Of Lunacy and Leaders

It is safe to conclude, from the psychological analysis of corruption, that our corrupt politicians and leaders must be mad. They must be psychopaths...

Obama Publicly Shames and Ridicules Us; We Are Nonetheless Overjoyed?

50% of the sports men and women in America are African Americans, but, surprisingly, only 2% of all coaches and managers are African Americans! Why is that Mr. President? It is because, in America, racism often tells you who you are and where you should be!

Nigerians In Foreign Lands: What a Cloud Of Confusion

130 million people in Nigeria live substandard, disgustingly poor lives and if any of them can better their lives, they will leave even for hell. Being poor in Nigeria is a hellish nightmare...

Images From And About Africans: A Response to Sabella Abidde

It has become exceedingly easy, sexy and even entertaining to be extremely critical of the African continent and its travails...

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

Victims of Too Much Religion

Both the pastor and the imam are themselves victims of an all-encompassing ideological indoctrination which has turned their world into a cocoon.  Were their worlds open, they would, of course, question the process that got them to the extremes of their ideologies...

'Witch-Ful Thinking': The National Blame Game

In Nigerian society today, we tend to take the accolades for our achievements, but finger certain forces behind our failures...

Police, Federalism and Nigerian Democracy: A Case for Decentralization

The police are the entry point into the criminal justice system and the effectiveness of the system resides in the effectiveness of the police system as well as its other tag team in the criminal justice...

Maximising N50bn youth employment fund

It’s with unparalleled delight that a cross section of Nigerians, especially the youth population, learned about and commended President Goodluck Jonathan Administration’s recent launch of N50billion fund for job creation...