Why are these men and women in the service of the people afraid, and what or who are they afraid of? I think I may have an idea.  When you look at the process it takes to secure a political position in Nigeria, and the hand-wringing and betrayal that accost it, maybe they should be afraid…

The teachings of Aliyu strike Salisu in a most scintillating way. He muses that redemption is what he needs for himself and even for his late family. He believes his own redemption can rescue his family from Shaitan as they were never practising Muslims. He must find redemption and the path to pleasing God…

It is not tendentious to contend that in some religious texts God is shown to have dark, human propensities such as anger, hate, prejudice, disgust, murderousness, envy, jealousy and pride. This list is not exhaustive of the negative human propensities of God as can be gleaned from some religious texts…

The average Nigerian does not know God! The God that he knows is the God of his belly. The God that serves him and not the God that he serves. The insular, parochial and partial God! The God of his “open doors” and “breakthroughs.” The God that strangles his enemies for him…

So it is possible for a Governor to be sitting by himself at the airport without a gamut of mean-looking men in black blazers around him?  Is it possible that with a governor there will be no gun-toting cops, no visible private security personnel, no P.A, no S.A, no C.S.O.?

The damning report of the Australian anti-slavery campaign group, The Walk Free Foundation, that Nigeria sweeps the board in mustering the highest number of people living in modern slavery in Africa is not only on the threshold of verifiable truth, but also in the crucible of sordid reality…