“A fool at 40 is a fool forever,” is a popular, in fact, hackneyed saying. I have not subjected it to empirical study, so I will not comment on it. But I know that at 40 you should try to be real and after 50 years, if you still live a lie or lie to […]

THE report was treated like a footnote in the main press, but social media and online news platforms gave it a wider play. It’s the story of the launch of a nomadic vigilante service by Miyetti Allah, a group of herders turned political pressure group, comprising mostly Fulani.  The national president, Bello Bodejo, said in Lafia, […]

THE Yoruba people of South-Western Nigeria have an anecdotal saying that is applicable to the present state of insecurity in Nigeria. “Ti naninani ba nna ni, ti gbanigbani nworan lai daa l’ekun, a je wipe gbanigbani lo ni ki naninani maa ni.” The nearest equivalent of this saying, when translated is: “If someone is beating you, and […]

It has turned out so far, to be the only centenary conference marking the passage of Vladimir Lenin, the first person to lead a socialist revolution. The other activity was in Moscow where flowers were laid in his mausoleum. In Abuja, Nigeria, over 300 of us from Nigeria, United States, Cuba, Ghana, South Africa, Venezuela, […]

Ex-Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State was recently quoted in various WhatsApp groups as making the following comments: “Nigeria cannot break up because members of the elite are united in preserving their advantages over the masses irrespective of their differences of tribe and religion. Nigeria is too weak to break… “…Who will break it? The […]