The unveiling of the experiences of Mallam Garba Shehu in the political space as packaged in a book last Wednesday, was understandably graced by an incongruous audience. It couldn’t have been otherwise, given the paradoxical role the esteemed journalist and public relations expert has played in the course of a so far distinguished career. President Bola Tinubu […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done something few Nigerian leaders have ever dared. He has cracked open the hardened crust of our tax system

General Johnson Aguiyi – Ironsi was firm when he ordered Captain David Laisi Bamigboye to stick to  Beatrice Chinyere Asagwara forever, after their wedding at St. George’s Garrison Church, Point Road Apapa on Saturday February 6, 1965. Ironsi who was the General Officer Commanding (GOC), Nigeria Army, chaired the wedding reception which held at Headquarters, Nigeria […]

The Yoruba say a lie can hide for eight years, but one day, truth will expose it. The evil that men do lives after them, yet the harm President Tinubu has inflicted on Nigeria’s democracy may not wait for his departure to unravel. Tinubu suspended Fubara like he owns the country. But Shettima’s calculated revelation has now left […]

It should not happen to anyone. Nobody should have to wake up in the morning to see their property worth billions of naira being demolished; or worse, completely demolished. And as a consequence, to find that the future of a business the property houses, a labour of love and sweat of several years, has suddenly become seriously […]

When we say DELTA STATE NOR DEY CARRY LAST, we are not saying we are perfect people. We are simply saying we naturally crave for excellence. It didn’t start today. In the Midwest Region which was renamed Bendel before Delta State and Edo state emerged from Bendel State, we dominated in sports and academics. In the last […]

It’s hard not to love US President Donald Trump.  He is the world’s most powerful president and wears his preeminence on his sleeve. Not for him the crooked modesty of the Chinese or the boring self-effacement of the British.  Six months after his second inauguration, it’s been one day, one Trump. Two of his latest […]

The great warmonger of our time, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, ICC, for war crimes and genocide has proposed President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Israeli Prime Minister, an expert in infanticide and the strategic deployment of starvation to wipe out resistant peoples, handed over to Trump the nomination letter […]

IF it’s not over, then it’s not over, and therefore we cannot stop talking about it. We cannot, indeed, we must not stop talking about a problem that threatens our very existence. It is trite to restate that as at this time, majority of Nigerians are feeling insecure, what with the news of  killings and kidnapings in […]

Last week, I made a “theoretical” case for the return of former President Goodluck Jonathan to power in 2027. It was an unusual intervention. Unusual because I was very critical of the Jonathan presidency and strongly condemned his barely disguised attempt at a comeback in 2023 after his re-election defeat in 2015. However, the intervention was […]

My recent visit to China, which I wrote about in this column two weeks ago (See China and live), opened my eyes as to what it takes to build strong nations. I have been privileged to travel to many countries globally, and in terms of development, China takes the cake. While here in Nigeria we continue […]

In our fast-paced and hyperconnected world, silence has become an endangered species. We live in a culture that worships the quick comeback, the instant response, or the rapid-fire exchange. In different spaces, be it in boardrooms, classrooms, newsrooms or buka shops, we’ve convinced ourselves that thinking time is wasted time. But what if we’ve got […]

Education to an ordinary person means no more than the process of passing across and imbibing or learning the practices, ways of life and arts of one’s fore-bearers usually orally or through observation and imitation. History tells us that every generation, since the beginning of human existence, somehow passed on its stock of values, traditions, methods and […]

The camp of the Nigerian opposition parties, made up largely of a mix of disaffected and/or expired politicians, has been in a ferment of excitement in the last few days after they came together under the umbrella of the African Democratic Congress, one of the lesser known political parties that make up the country’s political landscape. […]

“Intolerance begets intolerance and injury breeds injury” — Sir Richard F. Burton There were moments in history when the idea of international law was discarded in favour of unilateral acts that were conceived to advance the interests of certain classes of people in some countries. Law, legality, morality and justice, are inconvenient facts that have stood in […]