NIGERIA’s foreign policy is in the doldrums. Our foreign ministry is currently comatose. The truth of the matter is that Nigerian foreign-policy makers do not know what foreign-policy should entail. We claim to be the largest “exporter of peace” in Africa and the fourth largest worldwide. 

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari cares for his people. But although he is president of Nigeria, his people are not the people of Nigeria. His people are the Fulanis in particular, and Northern Nigerians in general. That is the token of a “good politician.” A good politician promotes the interests of his people. 

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is a Northerner.   He sees Nigeria essentially from a Northern perspective.   Even El-Rufai, one of his more ardent supporters, admitted in the past that “(Buhari’s) insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known.

NIGERIANS are not students  of history. History, in Nigeria, is so contentious, it is not even taught in our schools. However, we educate our future through the study of history. A country without a history is one without a compass. It is a country without a plan. The future of a country begins in its history.

Adams Oshiomhole may not be a card-carrying member of the PDP.   As a matter of fact, he is the national chairman of the ruling APC.   Nevertheless, he has been a major blessing to the PDP and a systematic liability to the APC.   If one did not know any better, you might conclude that Oshiomhole is a PDP plant in the APC.   So counter-productive have been the activities of the APC national chairman to the fortunes of his party.

IF Nigeria survives the  controversy provoked by the  2019 presidential election, one of the prerequisites would be that there cannot be a Yoruba president in the country for at least another 20 years.   Otherwise, we would be further stoking the flames of disintegration. 

For those of us who had hoped against hope, the 2019 presidential election has proved to be the last straw. We are now convinced that Nigeria is a hopeless case. This country is not just a major disappointment; it is decidedly firmly on the trajectory of a future break up.

BARACK Obama was just a first-term senator from Illinois when he had the “audacity of hope” to run for president of the United States.   It was not only an uphill task; it was an impossible one.   To succeed, he had to confront, in the first instance, a principality of the American political firmament in the person of Hillary Clinton, wife of a former president, in the bid to secure the nomination of the Democratic Party.

HOW do you fight an enemy who is not an enemy but a fellow-citizen? How do you fight someone who is fighting you but you don’t know exactly why? How do you fight a mad man? That precisely is the challenge we face in Nigeria with regard to the Boko Haram. That challenge reached a new chapter with the kidnapping of 276 Chibok schoolgirls.

IN the last few days, ExxonMobil Nigeria has embarked on an image-laundering exercise concerning its shabby treatment of its Nigerian security workforce.  It has paid for advertorials in several newspapers and online publications captioned “The Facts: Blockade of Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Offices and Residences.”