The dreaded Ebola virus and Boko Haram represent different faces of two most dire crises currently plaguing Nigeria. The former is a natural contagion, the latter a human-made disaster…
Despite all the elaborate search and rescue efforts that have been expedited by a combination of Nigerian security forces and their foreign allies, using the most advanced information gathering equipment available, the girls are light years away from being found. The Million Dollar questions bogging the minds of informed spectators of this macabre drama are: Where are our girls?
As far back as the Venetian Empire, international bankers recognized that lending to governments or monarchs to start or continue a war was more profitable than any other banking business…
Man, in his original Adamic form, was indestructible. He was the most complete being ever created – even more complete than the angels; a unique combination of all that is absolute and perfect; a perfect reflection of the creaseless beauty of the Almighty…
Nigerian celebrities doggedly campaigning to strike out ALS is noble, but it also beyond appalling. The current situation of the Nigerian state is dire: chibok girls are still missing…
Men in their late 40s and 50s begin to think seriously about retirement. In Nigeria when you retire, you are on your own and everything is in the air. You live in a state of perpetual uncertainty. You are never sure if you will get your regular entitlements or whether some civil servant thief will make off with it or stick it in his account for a few years…
I do not believe that the ‘outbreak’ of the virus here in Nigeria was a happenstance. I believe that the drama we are all watching and which is being presented by the Western media, CNN, BBC et all has the elements of a well-researched programme and script…
On Saturday 9 August 2014, the people of Osun State went to the polls to elect a Governor for the next four years. Expectations were high, fears of violence and intimidation had already been built up before this date and different stakeholders had made pronouncements of decisive processes…
Some enlightened people in our country today who hold very strong opinions about government hold those opinions because of the strong position taken by Jean Jacques Rousseau. This thinker of the 18th Century successfully sold his idea of political participation via an arrangement known as the ‘Social Contract’…
Most of us watching from the sidelines did not really understand what an El-Rufai was going to do in Anambra State on the very eve of the elections. Was he a grassroots campaigner or was he going there as an accredited election monitor?
From religious fundamentalist groups rising up against the state and its institutions, ethnic militias adopting arcane methods of their own in questioning the legitimacy of the Nigeria State, an increasing number of kidnapping and assassination cartels, over ambitious politicians who prefer settling political scores extra-judicially, increase in youth restiveness, to other potentially destabilizing acts of violence, Nigeria has become a theatre of war…