See What Order, Discipline Did To China
Like a troubador traversing the land, we set forth at dawn, leaving Beijing for Shanghai, China’s economic nerve center. It was 8 am when we headed for the airport, meaning…
Between Quota and Federal Character principle
This reflection is a continuation of my last week’s piece on how to re-engineer our politics to make it less anarchic and more oriented towards nation-building. As I argued, there…
Leave Matter For Matthias
“I saw something yesterday. I thought it was a joke.” “What happened?” “Nigerians and their sense of humour; we always manage to squeeze laughter out of every situation, no matter…
So Who Do We Stone If Buhari Performs?
Recently, Prince Tony Momoh cane out boldly to state that he has offered himself for stoning should President Muhammadu Buhari not perform at the end of his present four-years tenure.…
It’s time to put Nigeria first
This commentary is inspired by Olusegun Adeniyi’s “Of wailers, counterwailers and Buharideens” (ThisDay, March 31). In that piece, the ace journalist and public affairs commentator successfully defines the tri-polarities governing…
Bandits in uniform, or a country of anything goes
I had a few sleepless nights last week. It had nothing to do with the searing heat in the country or the epileptic power supply by Nigeria’s eternally dysfunctional electricity…
In This Same Country…
There is today in Nigeria an entire generation of Nigerian-passport wielding men and women who do not actually know, to borrow Achebe’s words that indeed “there was once a country”.…
Understanding General Dambazau at 62
”Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” –Mahatma Gandhi I will start this piece by ingeminating the story of a young man who…
The Wailing Wailers, The “Change” They Voted For And Our Own Change.
Those who either sentenced themselves or were sentenced to inconsolable heedless wailing by the outcome of last year’s general election can never stop being funny. Often when you hear or…
Rescuing the nation from the so-called ‘’entrenched interest’’
“Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the man in high and low places that seek bribes and demands ten per cent; those that seek to keep the country…