Direct Primaries Will Strengthen Nigeria’s Democracy
One of the most profound decisions the Adams Oshiomhole-leadership of the All Progressives Congress is bringing to party politics is the adoption of direct primary as a means of selecting…
Towards a New Nigeria: Presidential Aspirants to Note
We, the people of Nigeria, must device a means of steering the course of our destiny in the light of the socio-political realities of the present time. Our condition calls…
Bill Gates, AI and returned Nigerian Loot
Last month, March, a self-driving SUV knocked down and killed a pedestrian trying to cross the street in downtown Arizona, USA. That incident came at a time when UBER was…
Nigeria’s Hard Decision: Bend or Break?
The time is now for our politicians to be proactive about what direction our nation will be moving from now on. My experience with my friends and other Nigerians both…
Be a Part of History
About 100 years ago, the Spanish flu wiped out 5% of the world’s population; it was reported as one of the deadliest disasters in human history. Those days were dark…
Some Notes on Germany and Nigeria
I am out to enhance relations between Nigeria and Germany. Would you like to be personally involved? I am open to friendship and projects. Germany and Nigeria have the largest…
Rabid Ethnicity as Factor Holding Down Nigeria
Without doubt, fervent ethnicity is one of the greatest bulwarks holding down the growth and progress of the country and in this mad inclination to the idol of ethnicity, all…
Nigeria’s Democratic Euphoria is over!
The elation over Nigeria’s experiment in democracy is over. Reality is once again at our doorstep with the worrying questions about our future – the calibre of those running (or…
Senility and Governance
Ending monarchical un-meritocracy in Nigeria’s political terrain Recently, my friend and I were contemplating how the prevalent culture of sycophancy could be ended in Nigeria. The culture that neither voices…
Rapping: a Practice in Yoruba Culture that goes back a Millennium
If you do not tell the truth about what you know and understand about yourself, then others may tell lies based on what they neither know, nor understand about you.…