During the period when the President was fully in the picture, the Army, Police and security agencies tended to be deployed in a manner suggesting that the system was for some groups and against the others

Funmi in missionary-style became like a butterfly, pollinating young minds with ideologically-driven knowledge and seeking to make them first class brains in the global market of ideas

THE four paged advertisement was not signed by anybody or Ministry or the Presidency. The shameless purveyors of a great deal of the half-truths and outright falsehoods in the narrative could not summon the courage to claim responsibility for it. But, given my close study of this particular government, it bears all the finger prints of two people – the first is a Federal Minister; the second is a Senior Special Adviser to a very, very, very top official of Buhari’s government. The last time the President or Head of State of Nigeria was served by such individuals who have no regard for truth was during the Abacha regime. That horrible government had a Senior Special Adviser, Wada Nas, who was nicknamed by me as Wada Nasty. It also had a Minister of Information, who could not distinguish between lai and falsehood.

‘IT is inconceivable that businesses anywhere can survive on a 25 to 30% interest rate regime. How can investors anywhere survive on these rates? How can they create jobs and make returns? But this is the situation our businesses currently live with.”

What the Biafran activists have demonstrated is that you cannot force people against their will to participate in, and belong to a nation, where they feel abandoned