MANY readers might have read or heard about the initial scramble for Africa, as recorded by historians. It was a movement that culminated in a major political and economic exertion by the major and minor powers, largely pof European origin. The end result was colonisation. In a bid to continue to sustain the economic wealth of their […]

YOU know it all. I mean, all about the airport incident involving Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde Anifowose, the Fuji musician better know by his stage moniker, KWAM-1. You have all the information available from the mainstream media — your favourite newspapers, television, and radio stations. Then you got more salacious details from what we all now know as […]

A little over a year ago, specifically on July 19, 2024, this column had cause to join issues with the High Command of the Nigeria Police Force over the issue of CMR, or Central Motor Registry, which the Police decreed all motorists must obtain a permit from.  I recall a statement issued by Force spokeman, ACP Muyiwa […]

A cursory perusal of the state of affairs in Nigeria today and how things are managed by the politicians in charge led me to one conclusion — we, the people of Nigeria, do not matter a jot to the politicians managing our affairs. In addition, the laws that we have in place to regulate our daily […]

THERE is never a dull moment in our dear country, Nigeria. There is always something of interest to talk about — some of them serious issues, like the 2025 national budget…

APART from the fact that the power elite, irrespective of which faction is in the corridors of power at the moment, has proved itself completely incompetent in managing the commonwealth to the benefit of all of us, excluding themselves and their favoured ones, one aspect of life and living in our country that is exteremely bothersome, at […]

THE last time a president of Nigeria died was May 2010, when Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua passed on, after an illness. Since then, all the other has-beens of the office of president have remained alive. They are still around — General Yakubu Gowon, General Ibrahim Babangida, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari […]

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 […]

WHILE politicians nationwide were planning defections from their parties and shopping where next to berth, a major development on the security landscape took place. Last Monday, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Mohammed announced graduation of the first batch of 800 elite Special Operations Forces, SOF. The ceremony took place at Camp Kabala, in […]

I AM almost sure that there are very few Nigerians who do not know that a lot of things are not well with our country at this point in time. It is trite to restate that insecurity is worsening, while the economy remains in the doldrums. Cost of living continues to soar as prices of just […]

SO, Mr President finally found his way to Benue State, more than two years after he assumed office. That visit was coming after no less than 10,217 persons, mostly defenceless women and children, the old and infirm, got killed in the two years that Tinubu had been president. The figures are those of rights watchdog, Amnesty International. […]

YESTERDAY was June 12. That date has become something else in the history of our dear country. At the risk of telling you what you what you already know, the presidential election of June 12, 1993 was adjudged by Nigerians and watchers of Nigerian politics worldwide to be the freest, fairest ever held in the […]

THIS week, the newswires were awash with reports that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Olufemi Oluyede has relocated to Benue State, ostensibly in a show of force following endless killings by herdsmen militias in that state. Without fear of equivocation, one can say that Benue is the most embattled of all the states […]

TODAY’s edition is the second instalment of the conversation with the above headline. I assert again that our country is currently witnessing a barbarian invasion. As a student of strategic intelligence, I construe a barbarian invasion as a siege laid to a people or group of peoples with distinct, thriving cultures in their territory by armed bands […]

YES, you read that right: Nigeria is currently under invasion by peoples from the Sahel, fleeing the twin effects of climate change and virulent terrorism and banditry. But first, let us put this in context. According to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Barbarian invasions, or the movements of Germanic peoples began before 200 BCE and lasted until the early Middle […]