Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow How I wished Tayo Akpata, Sam G. Ikoku, Bola Ige, Erhunse Bankole Akpata, Tunji Otegbeye and other departed Nigerian thinkers were alive today to see how the cooks of neo-colonial politics have spoilt the broth. I do not envy Allison, Ayida, Phillip Asiodu, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It was Nnamdi Azikiwe who said on television on his return to Nigeria during the civil war that no one used Sunday-School language to deal with a scoundrel. In fact, if a government resorts to arm-twisting and suppression to treat political matters, it […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow “My vote must count,” echoed an angry elderly man driven to hysteria by Attahiru Jega’s disenfranchisement of millions of Lagosians. As he spoke at the verification and registration centre at St. Kizito School, Iju Ishaga, hundreds of disenfranchised others joined and changed it […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I spent eight hours on a journey that took three, two decades before the arrival of Nigeria’s pseudo-democracy. When Yakubu Gowon built the Shagamu–Ore dual carriageway within three years of his post-war rule, it was pleasurable to ride to Benin from Lagos. Samuel […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow One wonders the furore about cross-carpeting in Nigeria by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, when it has been the major beneficiary of the obscene pastime. Only a few of those who lead the PDP today shared the dreams of the radicals who braved […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Comets no longer announce the passing of princes in Nigeria. They are quietly interred unsung. Pacesetters are treated with disdain by those they preceded to lay respectable foundation for in the professions. But villains, cheats and thieves are sung to high heavens when […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Hurrah! At last there is something to celebrate in Nigeria. We are Ebola free for now. It proves our varying but progressive ingenuity under a collective ideal. Some fellow exported Ebola to Nigeria and we stopped him at our border before he could […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow They want the head of Stephen Keshi on the block. His sin is that he has been unable to repeat the impossible. He has not transformed to the 12th man on the field to secure victory for Nigeria’s first eleven in the current […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Today’s Nigeria should be any foreign correspondent’s mine for news. Even the most un-enterprising of reporters would get at least two juicy stories a week, to whet the appetite of news hungry audiences at home because those who hold the reins here never […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Could the Goodluck Jonathan government be said to be accident-prone? That may not be true. God rewards man for every act good or bad deservedly. The floodgate of scams that burst open with the pension fund scandal has released more filth for the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Scotland has just decided by approximately 55 per cent vote to stay in Britain. It does not rob Scotland of its soul as a nation in the United Kingdom. Bavaria prides its institutions more than it prides the Republic of Germany. In fact, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow In 1958 when Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe (alias KO) rebelled against Nnamdi Azikwe, he founded a newspaper to give robust intellectual muscle to his revolt. The name of the paper was Daily Telegraph and the editor was maverick Smart Ebbi (alias Marshal Kebby). Marshal […] More
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