Opinions

It was the occasion of my uncle’s birthday party, which President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan honoured in person.  I had the good fortune of being the one asked to serve him.  His security detail scanned me with some device before they allowed me to approach him.  While attending to him, I noticed the look in his […]

The avuncular admonition and verbal castigation, that constituted President Goodluck Jonathan’s reply to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter was disheartening and disappointing, to say the least. Beyond the specifics of the President’s reply to Obasanjo’s verdict that under Jonathan, Nigeria has become a nation riddled with corruption and institutionalized banditry, the ostrich fatalism of the […]

I have refrained from commenting on the pact between the All Progressives Alliance (APC) and the “new PDP” because, to some extent, I am involved.   While the merger process of Nigeria’s main opposition parties – which led to the formation of the APC – lasted, I had reason to engage some of my comrades, […]

It is obvious that Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will not resign his position as I and others had called for. He would not do so because there had not been any precedent of any Nigerian resigning his position because of poor performance of one’s job or even for policy disagreements. Since Mr. Sanusi is staying […]

There is so much death in this country. So many tears. So much evil. So much betrayal. So much sadness and so many tragedies. So much corruption and deceit. So many shattered dreams, broken hearts and wounded souls. So much injustice and insensitivity. So much greed and want. So much bloodshed, blood-letting and blood-spilling. Welcome […]

The General is at it again! When he is not openly criticising the man he facilitated his ascendancy to Aso Rock with his utterances, he is hobnobbing with state governors eyeing President Goodluck Jonathan’s seat and opposed to his second term aspiration. But his latest offering in the form of a narcissistic missive is a […]

A letter dated September 25, 2013 written by Lamido Sanusi, Governor of Central Bank, to President Goodluck Jonathan was recently leaked to the media from undisclosed sources.  In an apparent streak of patriotic fervour, Sanusi noted in his letter that “I am constrained to formally write your Excellency, documenting serious concerns of the CBN on […]

‘The longest road you’re going to have to walk is from here to here.   Let me first issue a caveat, I am not a finance expert, an economist, or auditor, I am not a banker, I have not held the post of cashier, or treasurer. My mathematics is poor, but I know one plus […]

The birth of Jesus Christ, which will be celebrated next Wednesday, December 25, is the portentous event of the Incarnation, from which Christianity draws its essence. Christians the world over, will mark the birth of the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose spectacular life of virtue, revolutionary teaching and sacrificial death on […]

The recent attack, in which over 400 suspected Boko Haram gunmen unleashed mayhem in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, once again highlights not just the magnitude of the security challenge facing the nation, but also the octopoidal dimension of a transmogrified insurgency that has reduced the northern part of the country into a killing field […]

The intemperate outburst of former President Olusegun Obasanjo against President Goodluck Jonathan and his warning that the nation is fast drifting into chaos and uncertainty shows his capacity to stir the hornet’s nest, and to comment freely on matters of national importance. Given the terrible scenario playing out in the country, manifested in mass poverty, […]

Obasanjo’s December 2, 2013 excoriating letter to President Jonathan has elicited diverse reactions from Nigerians. While some see the letter as appropriate, others have asked what “moral right” President Obasanjo has to write such a letter to President Jonathan. First of all, I should provide what to me were highlights of the letter, and my […]