Madam Oluremi Tinubu has donated one billion to the University of Ife. She wants the university to use the money to restore its dying landscape. That’s thoughtful. That’s a good cause. But tongues are wagging. Our universities have become shabby shadows of themselves. Madam Tinubu is a rich woman. But she could have stated if […]

In the middle of the road, the van was parked. People gathered. It was Independence Day. The country was 64. The van was laden with bread. The hungry, young and old, filled the streets, panting. Soldiers were everywhere,  as if the van was carrying bullion. Old women jostled and shuffled stoically. Nobody looked shamefaced. Their […]

They have all become sacred cows, loitering in the corridors of power, demystifying and castrating the EFCC by the impunity
they flaunt

The glory has departed. In the Obasanjo era, politicians dreaded the EFCC. When Ribadu was at the helm, the EFCC didn’t do tales by moonlight. Obasanjo and Ribadu were not saints, but against corruption, they barked and bit. Under their watch, the Eagle would have broken its beak and neck rather than allow this BEllo-Ododo charade. It’s getting messier. The EFCC looks castrated.

The tunnel is dark and bleak. Is there a glint of light in it? But purposefulness is easy to see. The police force needs to be better funded and equipped. It needs an overhaul. The welfare of the officers and men is wretched. The orientation is out-of-joint; the attitude is feral. Any responsible government desirous […]

Some observers say recent happenings have reminded them of Abacha. That’s scary

Some say it’s age. Not mental decline. But a psychological depreciation. Because the Tinubu of 2003 would not have succumbed to this.

Who would have thought that Tinubu, the democrat, the talent hunter, the wheeler-dealer with a nationalistic outlook, the Muslim who married a Christian and allowed her to become a Pentecostal pastor, would succumb to the myopic concentration of power in his zone? 

To renew hope, the president must help the anti  corruption agencies by a personal lifestyle that doesn’t create moral confusion

On his way to Equatorial Guinea, Tinubu rode in a gleaming new car to the airport, leaving tongues wagging. A glamorous, armoured black Cadillac Escalade reminded many of the NPN days. Such a show of opulence in the immediate aftermath of the hunger protests seemed an act of defiance. He startled the public.  Tinubu preaches […]