My mission and response to Lukman-El-Rufai’s articles is to show Senator Tinubu, the leadership of the ACN and Yoruba respectively that the intention of Buhari and El-Rufai to form an alliance with ACN against the 2015 elections has nothing to do with their love for Nigerians…
The events of this past weekend have been unpleasantly familiar for many Nigerians: Dana Air Crash in Lagos killing all 153 passengers on Sunday June 3; Allied Air Cargo Nigeria Crash landing in Ghana killing 10 people in a commercial bus on Saturday June 2; bomb Blast in Bauchi State…
Warri is a shameless society with perverted minds and shackled consciences on the loose. The capacity for crime is nonesuch. That is a city where crime busters newly posted there, promote criminality within minutes of arrival…
Persons have oftentimes been betrayed by those that they held in high esteem. Relationships between friends, wives and husbands, parents and children have always been battered on the altar of betrayal…
With his recent declaration intent to change the name of University of Lagos in honor of the winner of June 12 1993 presidential elections, Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has again confirmed what many of us of think of him and his administration: he is leading an error-prone presidency…
I feel constrained to join issues with you on the fallacies contained in your address to the 38th Annual Conference of the United States National Conference of Black Mayors in June 2012 in the United States…
During the Ibori saga in London I had decided to refrain deliberately from commenting on the fortunate outcome of the Ibori kleptocracy because while happy with the development as it concerned his indictment I was angry with the obnoxious system back home that produced Ibori…
Losing elections is never fun for politicians anywhere in the world and more so in our political system, where self interest often overrides public duty considerations and elections are contested on the basis of zero sum games, where the winners take all the spoils and the electorally vanquished are left empty handed…
Nigeria is never in short supply of enablers. They are scattered all over the nation, but most of them reside in the southern part of the country. A disproportionate number of them are from the South-East. One or two are from Edo State. A gaggle can be found in the South-West…
When a collectivity of people decide to come together and live together under the umbrella of one government, such decision is a contract. It is aimed at promoting their inalienable pleasure seeking right among others. The people trade their trust with the expectation that such government will promote the people’s integrity and welfare, defend it against internal and external aggression or invasion, and be characteristically altruistic…
France and Greece are electing politicians that have rejected austerity policies which African leaders gladly accepted in 80s and 90s…