BAT 2023

The wealth of a nation is determined by the collective wealth of all its citizens, but what if the citizens got no wealth and this writer says, the nation is bankrupt and must start afresh as it was after the World Wars decades past. Sports in Nigeria is bankrupt and virtually non-existent except perhaps football. […]

In principle, the more information we have about a person, the better decision we are likely to make. This has been made manifest from the results collated from the just concluded Presidential/House of rep and Governorship/State Assembly elections. It would eventually become camaraderie-of-sort where contestants were rewarded by voters for their esteemed loyalty to a […]

The absence of primary kobo coins in our currency profile has become accepted as the norm by both the public and our monetary authorities who, curiously, don’t seem to also care. Nevertheless, in every successful modern economy, the utility value of primary coins is conversely well recognized because of the vital role they play. Indeed, […]

He was wrong, and he ought to offer an apology and a retraction or restatement of intent. An apology may not reassure those Igbos who have decided to leave Lagos during the election for their safety, but it is necessary all the same. In the year 1170, the king of England, Henry II, was getting […]

Whenever the Roman Emperors wanted to distract their citizens from their incompetence of not delivering good governance, they gave them a slideshow. They built coliseums and let gladiators have at each other and even have them fight wild animals for maximum show effect. That’s exactly what the national ruling party, in Nigeria, and their sitting […]

Albert Estein said “evil men will rule the world if the few good ones continue to remain silent”. This statement of fact without equivocation is apt in the description of the bizarre and sham election conducted last Saturday, March 28, 2015 in Cross River State and supervised by Dr. Okey Ezeani, the Resident Electoral commissioner […]

Last Saturday’s Presidential and Legislative elections has come and gone and will go down in our history as one of the most unprecedented in terms of its peaceful outcome. It has been categorised as the most free and fair election since the turn of democracy in 1999. Without mincing words, the election have not only […]

Dear friends at home and abroad, today my short notes are dedicated to the state of Kaduna. As you know my country Nigeria is going through a very exciting period at the moment. It is a period in which a lot people are having a lot of hopes and many especially the young people in […]

A cat’s sense of intelligence cannot be compared with that a dog (trained or untrained) but once a soldier always a soldier. It will take a high sense of intellect to connect the dots on the above sentence, but it is not insulting, but a statement of fact as this writer sees it. This writing […]

You’ve probably heard the new rhetoric that the APCs spin-masters have been spewing out in the last couple of days stating that if Lagos is in the opposition, the Federal Government will deny Lagos a lot of benefits. Just yesterday, a few well meaning Lagosians had sent us Facebook and SMS messages asking for my […]

On Thursday, March 26th, President Goodluck Jonathan and I signed a new accord reinforcing our commitment to violent-free elections. The new accord is a follow up to the Abuja Accord which we signed, along with nine other party leaders, on Jan. 14th 2015, to show our commitment to free, fair and credible elections in our […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) noted with dismay a front page advertorial by a faceless group in some National Newspapers on Wednesday, March 25, 2013, alleging a plot by the Chairman of the Commission to rig the 2015 general elections. The group cited the constitution of a presidential election result collation committee by the […]