How many times have you heard people say, If I had my way……………. Then they would go ahead to list all those things they would do if they had the final say on the matter. Everyone of us has such a list. This is mine. If I had my way, there would be only three political […]

The idiom “Procrastination is the thief of time”, according to Wikipedia, was coined in 1742 by a poet named Edward Young. The idiom was, however, popularized by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous and successful writers in 19th-century England. Procrastination doesn’t just steal time, it steals opportunities and reduces your potential to make hay […]

Beloved, we mentioned the efficacy of the grace of God in our last edition. Today, we’ll  consider strangers in our lives and how to overcome them. First, we want to attempt to define what can be referred to as a stranger in one’s life. Here we aren’t talking about visitors or strangers that visit and leave.  […]

We reserve loudest moral condemnation for the woman on the street corner, yet a resigned shrug to the politician who loots the public treasury

He retired ten years ago. But not out of choice. Left to him, he would have worked until he was 70 or until he was no longer able physically and mentally to go on. He had always relished the feeling of well-being that going to work offered him. He knew the emotional and financial security […]

Do you like sports stories? Welcome. I joined IICC Shooting Stars FC of Ibadan in 1974. I was a student. I was amongst the first set of undergraduates to be admitted into the newly introduced HND program at The Polytechnic, Ibadan. I combined my grounding in Mechanical Engineering with playing at the highest level of […]

The failed attempt by Senate President Godswill Akpabio to amend the Senate Standing Rules was, from the outset, interpreted in many political circles as an act of self-preservation. The proposed amendment, which sought to restrict eligibility for principal offices to ranking senators from the immediate past assemblies, would effectively have shut the door against the return of […]

•Is Jonathan also trying to scatter them, too?  Three weeks from critical deadlines, the opposition parties are in utter disarray. If this democracy fails, those who scattered the opposition must take responsibility. INEC failed to register parties in time. The government sowed moles and discord. Opposition leaders manifested greed , cowardice and ego. Another election is around the […]

Doma United are back to the Nigerian Premier League, thanks to Technical Adviser Najib Mabo who was hired by proprietor Alhaji Suleiman Umar and given a blank cheque and free hand to make it happen. The gaffer is the son of Ismaila Mabo, the only African coach to have advanced to the quarter finals of the FIFA […]

Last week, the  Supreme Court voided the ADC status quo antebellum order.  This meant that the David Mark-led leadership would be restored while the matter at the Federal High Court continued.  I was mightily relieved to see our apex court doing the right thing at a time when most of us had totally lost faith in […]

The former Labour Party presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi, thinks he is Nigeria’s most misunderstood politician. Why is it hard for us to see that his serial party flipping is not a sign of desperation but a tactic of survival for our own good? Why, even though he has flipped political parties five times in three election […]

I first came into contact with South Africa remotely, through a book, Cry, the Beloved Country, written by Alan Patton ( 11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988). It was a novel given to me to read by my father, in 1974. It was the first introduction to my growing mind on what life was like in […]

South Africa  united  Africa and the Black Race more than any other as we fought Apartheid, one of the most evil systems humans  ever created.  Apartheid was backed by some of the most powerful countries in the world such as the United States, United Kingdom and Israel which  also practices an   Apartheid variant  called Zionism.  But, […]

It is a common political maxim, bearing more than a kernel of truth. Divided parties don’t win elections. Equally, a divided opposition can’t defeat a determined incumbent, however appalling its performance. That truism has played out twice in Nigeria’s recent past and seems likely to repeat itself in next year’s presidential election. In 2015, the Peoples […]

When I told a couple of friends on Saturday that I was going to Katsina State, they asked the same question: Must you go? My affirmative answer elicited a familiar, albeit cryptic admonition: I hope you made adequate security arrangements. That is how scared most people, particularly in the South, are right now about Katsina, […]