BAT 2023

The defeat of President GoodluckJonathan andmost PDP Governors and Members in the National Assembly in last general elections ended the dream of PDP to rule Nigeria for 60 years. The party was defeated not because President Buhari came with anything new than what he came with in his past 3 attempts to defeat the ruling […]

Sometime last year I watched the Hollywood blockbuster titled ”12 Years A Slave” starring Brad Pitt and the Nigerian-born actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. After watching the film I was at a loss for words. It was a masterpiece. It was a powerful rendition of a true and heroic story. After watching the film I could not […]

All through history, the most essential ingredient for leadership has always been character. Although other ingredients such as empathy, toughness, knowledge and intelligence are frequently mentioned, these traits are all too often really subordinate aspects of character. Encarta English Dictionary defines character as a set of behavioural qualities that make a person distinctively attractive. Such […]

Politicians should serve actually two terms, one in office, the other in jail — Anonymous  As a Psychologist by academic qualification, we say that the way you feel affects the way you interpret the world. This statement I am of the factual opinion affects Nigerians.    For instance, if the words rake, take, and cake […]

It is not by force of arms but by force of example that you demonstrate the superiority of any ideology- Mikhail Gorbachev I was very delighted when I read that President Buhari had directed that preparations for the clean-up of the polluted Ogoni land should commence. That decision is very both significant and politically strategic […]

On July 25, Nigeria celebrated a milestone in our country’s health sector: an entire year without any reported case of polio. The World Health Organisation defines poliomyelitis (polio) as a highly infectious viral disease, which mainly affects young children. It is caused by a virus. It mainly affects children. The initial symptoms of polio include […]

Mojeed Jamiu is cutting jobs and raising prices to prevent his furniture and clothing store in Lagos from closing after Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele restricted foreign currency supply for some imports. Emefiele in June banned importers from using official foreign-currency channels leaving many to use illegal markets for about 40 categories of […]

With Nigeria’s scarcity issues yet to abate, the Department of Petroleum (DPR) has embarked on what observers are referring to as a crackdown on several major marketers by shutting down several stations and terminals belonging to firms such as Swift, Sahara, NIPCO, and DeeJones without due process or a thorough investigation being implemented. The petroleum […]

Following my last week’s column, ‘Radio Biafra and the Biafran Narratives’, I had an impassioned telephone conversation with someone – let me call him Ahmed- who said he was a “dedicated reader of my writings”. The point of the conversation centred on a statement in that last week’s article: “…unless the crisis in the country’s […]

I didn’t vote for President Buhari in the last election, though I know that Nigeria needed change.  I just disagreed with the change agent due to reasons I have explained in various write-ups in the lead up to the election.  I didn’t vote for Jonathan either; the PDP as was constituted and operated just wasn’t […]

It has been about a year now since Nigeria recorded any case of polio.  For over 17 years, the disease was on rampage, especially in the northern part of the country. The country accounted for about 50% of global and 80% of African polio cases.  Nigeria was the face of the disease. According to one medical […]

Anytime the question of who is behind the abduction of Chibok girls is asked, I remember the poem, Mr. Nobody which we recited back then in primary school. Spare my memory; it’s been a while since I left primary school. With the risk of infringing on copyright, I narrate the poem, as I can still […]