Pat Utomi told sordid tales about the weird and fetish lifestyles of our politicians and how those lifestyles negatively affect our own lives. Today, he takes to the cleaners religious leaders and institutions, intellectuals, business communities, student bodies, and young people who stand aside and look and do nothing while criminals in the cloak of politicians have field days.

Prejudice!  Wicked prejudice!  The consequence of the wickedness of prejudice is the present spate of criminal activities passed off as terrorism in some parts of the north of Nigeria.

Several years back Nigerians were referred to as the happiest people on planet earth. 

As the nation celebrates the 20th anniversary of democracy on Wednesday, May 29, Dr Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, the Director, Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training, Zango Shanu, Zaria, whose centre carried out research on banditry, kidnapping and killings in Zamfara and Katsina states, speaks on the findings.

Pat Utomi unmasked the criminals who seize power through hijacking of political parties. He identified them as “three gangs of actors” advocating the need for patriots to boldly confront these criminals and save the people and the country which they have almost completely ruined.

HOW to create a new moral tribe of citizens with a social and political consciousness of the freeborn, in human solidarity and encouraging of the work ethic, the spirit of enterprise and the principle of subsidiarity or the decentralization of authority to levels closest to the people would be a two-decade enterprise I would persevere on.

Keynote Address by His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo At the 2019 Synod of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Oleh Diocese Isoko, Delta State, May 18, 2019

THE activist in me came alive as soon as I got into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN. As a precocious 17-year old, I lived that adage that if at 18 you were not communist, something was wrong with your heart but if at 40 you still are, something was wrong with your head. I refused to be a Marxist even at 17, thanks to the impact of those Dominican priests, but I was a passionate fighter against injustice. Such was the commitment that I missed celebrating my 18th birthday.

WITH the buy-in of the Asagba, I began direct conversations with people like Fortune Ebie and Felix Osifo, the founder of Osiquip. Then I moved to Ralph Uwechue. I was glad that Chief Uwechue told the story himself at the World Igbo Congress meeting in Orlando Florida in 2012.

IN the days when Apapa was the toast and popular destination of residents and visitors to Lagos, many families spent their weekends visiting the place to experience the serenity that characterised the Apapa Government Residential Area and the popular Apapa Amusement Park.

Pat Utomi narrated the thoughts, the people and the circumstances that persuaded him to run for the Delta State governorship election under the platform of All Peoples Congress, APC. Utomi was rightly warned by his friend, Dr. Asoluka, who prophetically described APC as a political party with “a flock of scoundrels.”

The old adage is that   “nothing is small or big otherwise by comparison.”

Indeed, time it was when: .Our Naira was stronger than the Dollar. At some point in the past it was 95k (less than N1) to $1, but now it is N365 to $1.

Introduction : In 2008, Mr. Klaus P. Wachsmuth, the German Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nestle Nigeria Plc told me and Ikechukwu Eze, two BusinessDay Senior Correspondents then, in an exclusive interview that “nobody has the right to treat his country the way Nigerians treat their country.” Mr. Wachsmuth later sought to keep that statement out of what was going to be published, probably because he felt he shouldn’t have interfered in the internal affairs of his host country.  But Mr. Wachsmuth was absolutely right.

THE major difference between 1993 and 2018 is that we have a generation that has lost its sense of outrage. Whereas in 1993, I, as the top executive of a multinational, felt personally insulted by the annulment and wrote an op-ed piece in The Guardian titled We Must Say Never Again which forced middle-class professionals to rally and we founded the Concerned Professionals that mounted opposition to military rule; today’s people of my equivalence in 1993 are on Twitter and Facebook making jokes about happenings guaranteed to ensure that they and their children will have a more miserable experience of a future foretold.

Unemployment rate in Nigeria has grown from 17.5 per cent at the onset of democracy in 1999 to 23.1 per cent in 2018.