BAT 2023

 The calls for restructuring of the national space have become unceasing in recent years. Therefore, the narrative below has certainly become increasingly relevant this year and may hopefully serve as a wake-up call to abort dire inevitable consequences which will clearly jeopardize our relationship as a nation and forestall the inevitable frustration of the misplaced […]

The year 1982 began with a revolutionary upheaval in Ghana: a group of young and radical military officers—some retired, others still in service—appeared to have seized power! It soon became clear, however, that what took place—or was taking place—in Accra was not a classical military coup d’etat, but a popular armed uprising led by a […]Read More

Recently, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registered a fresh batch of political parties. If the number of parties we have in Nigeria at present is not up to a hundred, it is fast inching to that number. I wonder whether this glut of political parties was the intendment of the apostles of free association […]

  The “Queen of Soul” whose rich gospel voice took her from her preacher father’s church choir to the top of the Billboards and center stage at three presidential inaugurations — died Thursday. She was 76 and had been suffering from cancer, the Associated Press reported. Franklin was one of the most celebrated women in […]

As the 2019 general elections approaches, Nigerian politicians are moving camps, divorcing and marrying new political suitors and erecting new shades to ply their political trade. Defection, the choice name for this seasonal movement of camps, is at its peak period presently and this is so because the 2019 election is just around the corner. […]

The actual amount stolen from Nigeria’s Treasury between 1993-8, by former Military Dictator, Sanni Abacha, may never be known. Nonetheless, Amnesty International, for example, has suggested, that over $5bn of Abacha loot had been identified, even when speculations still persist that the audacious ‘shop-lift’, by Abacha, and his associates, is probably nearer $10bn. Unfortunately, there […]

The World Cup, which is the greatest soccer showpiece on earth, is gradually headed to the conclusive stage as four countries; France, Belgium, Croatia and England have emerged semi-finalists in this year’s edition of that epic competition. From the pulsating group stages down through the quarter final stage of the competition, the world has witnessed […]

Nigeria’s widespread corruption, which has been eating the eco-system like termites, met on audacious response from President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday afternoon with the signing of a new Executive Order No.6 on preservation of assets connected with corruption. President Buhari holds the view that after three years in office it was another good time to […]

… “I’m in this for the long haul” We eventually agreed to meet on Monday June 18, by 12 noon, at his campaign office in Maitama, Abuja. Our earlier plan to meet either on Thursday, June 14 or Friday June 15 fell through as he suddenly had to be in Kano during the period. I […]

Just ask yourself how come the supposedly floated  naira, which makes its value be determined by the market forces is still defended by the same CBN that floated it? Put differently, why did the CBN pretend to have floated the naira and contrary to this policy of floating around the world, the same CBN continues […]

When he was farcically rigged out as Governor of Ekiti State four years ago, the perpetrators of that dastardly electoral gangsterism thought that Dr. Kayode Fayemi was finished in Nigerian politics. They have many reasons to think so. Then, the erstwhile ruling party, PDP, was going lyrical with horrific electoral shenanigans on which its claim […]

Let’s give it to Buhari and his advisers. Whoever suggested making June 12 the country’s ‘Democracy Day’ (rather than May 29, which it has been until now) gave the Daura General a master stroke. It was a decision that especially excited the sensibility of the South-west – even more than Jonathan’s decision to give Ojukwu […]