Opinions

Sometime last year, I wrote in one of my articles that one of the reasons why I will always love and pledge allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria is because, no day ends without at least one hilarious situation going on record. Whether in the creeks of the Niger-Delta; a hut in the violence-ridden […]

President Goodluck Jonathan’s refusal to assent to the State of the Nation Address Bill passed recently by the Senate and transmitted to him deserves a careful attention to substance and symbolism. The Senate had in May passed the State of the Nation Bill into law, which sought to mandate the president to address a joint […]

The power of might! Or, the might of power! Whichever one you choose, there is an air of inescapable discernment: AUTHORITY. Authority resides everywhere – in the home (which is the smallest unit of society), the ward, local government area, federal constituency, senatorial district, state and country. At every level, there is that symbolism of […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron has hit Nigeria again. He was reported saying Nigerians entering the United Kingdom would deposit £3,000 (about N750,000) before they are let in. The money, it was said, would be returned if the immigrant did not stay longer than his visa stipulated. The report has had Nigerians fuming, from the […]

No matter where they reside, whether in Nigeria or outside, critical chroniclers of this country’s roller-coaster existence have always been the butt of disparaging comments from jaundiced participants who find themselves in the maddening struggle towards building a befitting functional country. Perhaps discomfited by the certainty of truth, these characters often do not hesitate to […]

Without doubt, the disclosure by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru that about 9,000 Nigerians are in various prisons abroad; some of them on death row, is not only heart-rending if not damning; it is indeed pathetic. Fundamentally, this is yet, another blight on the toga of the country’s battered international image and […]

Another 419 practitioner contacted me via my Netlog account today.  Like most people, I have become used to getting loads of 419 solicitations through my email.  But lately, the 419 boys have invaded my social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) accounts. It is becoming quite common now to get 419 messages from some ‘friends’ on my […]

The greatest lesson in life is to know that sometimes even fools are right—Winston Churchill Early this year, I was with Ngozi Iweala and she spoke glowing on Nigeria’s economy, gdp and all those terms. I nodded and smiled.  I recalled our meeting pre-debt relief era and all her talk then…it wasn’t so much of […]Read More