Nigerian Security Challenges: The Way Forward
As a security consulting professional, I still find it difficult to comprehend the current lacuna in the Nigerian Security System owing to unhealthy rivalry or superiority complex existing amongst these…
Applying for a Nigeria Driver’s Licence – A Study in Wasteful Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy (/bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/) refers to both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials.…
Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye’s Peep Into Nigeria’s Looting Culture
Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye is not only a quintessential Nigerian writer and journalist, he is, undoubtedly, one of the most formidable literary and social critics in the country today. Ejinkeonye, whose birthday…
Abuja Ten Years from Now
I am on board the Virgin Bombardier Eco-6 train that runs a daily route from Kaduna to Abuja. This high-speed rail service has allowed people like me the luxury of…
Buhari is not a Nigerian!
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is not a “Nigerian.” Buhari’s actions, honesty, frugality, integrity, utterances, intentions, speeches, ultrasonic conservatism, demeanor and dispositions to naughty issues are very unNigerian. Majority of…
Of African Writers and Poverty: the African Development Bank and a call for Servant Publishers and Savvy Marketers
We have heard of African writers dying in poverty. I do not expect they should be leaving any luxuries behind but just a dignified living they deserved. Said to be…
Of Fulani Radio, Football and National Security
There is something good in the Fulani Radio said to be planned by the Federal Government. Other Ethnic Radio Stations need to be set up and with these, we have…
Who Hates President Buhari?
In the buildup to the 2015 elections, the wild, uproarious promotion of General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the man with the panacea…
Ibadan Abroad: Ibukun Awosika of Africa; from Oke Foko to First Bank
Ibukun Awosilka used to reside in Oke Foko an economically challenged area of Ibadan. She has come long way to become the chair person of Nigeria’s biggest bank FIRST BANK…
Who Is Nigeria’s Conscience – Remembering Gani Fawehinmi?
Monday, April 22, was the 81st birthday of Gani Fawehinmi, the late brilliant and successful lawyer and one of the very few credible human rights activists that ever walked…