“The worst thing that can happen to a leader is to look back; and find that nobody is following” – US President Lyndon B Johnson, 1908-1973. Talk is cheap. Nigeria is not Lagos. Presidents don’t talk first and think later. Those are three pieces of advice President Bola Tinubu should bear in mind whenever making […]

“It is quite impossible for those who want to gain power to avoid getting rid of those who are most likely to form the opposition” – Critias, 404 BC, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 196. In addition to those in opposition, power-grabbers abhor those likely to form a rival source of allegiance by the […]

“Friends speak the truth to each other. Good friends speak the bitter truth” – Israel’s President Herzog, in address to the US Congress, July 19, 2023. Herzog stunned the US Congress (National Assembly) by confessing that his country is now practising the same apartheid for which South African whites were globally condemned in the last […]

NOTE: Just before this article was sent to the Editor, the FG announced a review of the cash transfer to households. It is a wise decision. Just in case Tinubu is still thinking of cash transfer, then, this article remains valid. As I wrote immediately Tinubu addressed us on May 29, 2023, “talk is cheap”. […]

But, herdsmen have suddenly become endangered species everywhere in Nigeria. They were safe while Buhari was President; Buhari has left with the immunity conferred on them. Those they brutalised for eight years are gradually waking up to the fact that they are now vulnerable and can be attacked without consequences.