Opinions

Although the Judiciary never ceases to amuse Nigerians with its controversial positions on important national issues, the decision by Justice Valentine Ashi of the Abuja High Court to hold former President Olusegun Obasanjo guilty of contempt for flouting his orders restraining him from publishing his autobiography, My Watch, was a breath-taking display of arrogant impertinence […]

Well, I used to think that only the All Progressives Congress (APC) is exploiting and cynically looking to profit from the Boko Haram impasse.  I mean, just a few days ago, even the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha was avowing that should Jonathan be returned to power in 2015, the Boko Haram war against the […]

No other event perhaps, dramatizes the growing contradictions of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic better, than the theatre of political absurdity which the nation has become, in the countdown to the 2015 general elections. As political parties hold primaries to select their candidates for the various races, democracy has been rendered meaningless where it should be most […]

The primaries of the political parties which produced candidates for the 2015 elections have ended. But still, Nigeria is the poorer for it. As it was in 1999, so it is in 2014. In fact, rather than getting better, things have indeed taken a turn for the worse. Give it to Nigeria’s rotten political space. […]

  Thirty-six innocent ”non-muslim” souls were slaughtered in cold blood in Kenya on 2nd December by Al Shabab. Amongst them were defenceless women and children. The same thing happened in Kano, Nigeria four days earlier  when over 200 innocent ”muslim”  souls were blown up in a Kano mosque by Boko Haram suicide bombers. Three days before […]

Sensational media reports that, Abiola Kola-Daisy, daughter of Oyo state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, wore a dress that cost a whopping three million naira ($16,900) to attend the British Fashion Awards in London is an aberration that is insensitive, callous, shameful and inexcusable. The egregious and wasteful extravagance is simply mind-boggling; a real eyesore and bad […]

I am no economist. Then again, neither are a whole lot of the people who have written or spoken in recent times on the economic issues prevalent in our nation today. We are, however, stakeholders; after all, it is our country. We live here, earn a living here; our children attend schools here and what […]

I shall not insist that the historic/biblical figure of Nebuchadnezzar is uniquely apt for the pivotal figure of the ‘democratic’ history in the making at this moment — for one thing, Nebu was a nation builder and a warrior. One could argue, even more convincingly for the figure of Balthazar, his successor, or indeed, Emperor […]

The havoc-wreaking attack by Boko Haram terrorists, in which multiple suicide bomb blasts rocked the Kano Central mosque, during Friday prayers, killing over 100 people, is a callous, wicked, disdainful and dehumanizing act that has again demonstrated the primordial viciousness of the insurgents to march against civilization in a shameless and atrocious assault against Muslims […]

The decision by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri not to indict police officer Daren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, a young black man, has caused quite a stir.  It has not only sparked off a vicious cycle of violence in Ferguson itself coupled with protests all over America but it has also […]

The owner of the body does not say that he is in no pain, while we insist on commiserating with him for his sleeplessness and his restlessness. (One does not commiserate with a person who does not admit his/her misfortune). In Nigeria, it is not just about the more you look the less you see, […]

Amid the sliding profile of Nigeria’s revenue base, following the steady diminution in oil receipts (not oil revenue); the decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to devalue the naira, without any measures to mitigate the effects and prevent inflation in the country, portends far-reaching implications for the economy. Already, eight state governments have […]