IN an interview last Sunday with one of the major national newspapers, Major-General Henry Ayoola (retd) probably spoke the mind of most Nigerians. The voice of the people, they say, is the voice of God. Ayoola said: “Our politicians are not concerned about making the system work…. It is obvious that they are only concerned […]

THE Senate and the House of Representatives now appear more pro-people in some of their recent actions. The big, pleasant surprise came from the Senate whose President, Ahmed Lawan, had acted as an unapologetic rubberstamp of the Presidency. The Senate’s recent indictment of the Police, Attorney-General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes […]

THE President of the European Union, Charles Michel, correctly captured the relationship between humans and the planet Earth which is our home. He said at the just-concluded United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, that we have been at war with nature, and it is time for the war to stop to enable us rehabilitate the Earth […]

IT is said that if a candidate is allowed to mark his own examination papers, he will give himself straight “A’s”. Politicians are fond of giving themselves pass marks no matter how abysmal their performance is. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is fond of making sweeping promises is also very adept at giving himself unmerited praise […]

UNKNOWN to many Nigerians, there is a greater evil silently ravaging the country now than the prevailing insecurity – the killing of innocent people, including family members, for money rituals. Why are cases of this scourge rising every day? How did we get here, and what are the solutions? Only recently (and it has almost […]