THE situation of Nigeria today requires a thorough analysis. It is important for people to be better educated on the history of how we got to where we are today, how we found ourselves in this miserable situation. Unfortunately, the subject of history has been removed from our present educational system and so history is now how each person or group sees it.

Ever since President Buhari won the 2015 Presidential elections he was destined to win having labored in 2003, 2007, 2011 and then 2015 a very vast preponderance of South South and South East indigenes have descended on the President, pouring invective, calling him names, abusing his person and his exalted office, preaching hate, and ethnic divisions.

THE sudden fall of oil price has exposed Nigeria’s economic foundation as a mono-economy and heterogeneous one with so many financial faulty lines. The unsustainability of the current ‘feeding bottle federalism’ as propagated by the Deputy Senate President,

Anambra’s guber race is on

IT is no secret that the political terrain in Edo State has taken the shape of a messy pile of cards with each passing day. With less than eight weeks to the governorship election, the ruling party and its opposition seem to be playing a game of Russian roulette within their own party structures, in a last jostle to secure the top job at Osadebey Avenue.

One may not name the names of those who, in attempts to prove Aribisala wrong in his “David did not kill Goliath” contestation; instead one may frown at their unacademic responses against academic papers like Aribisala’s. “Aribisala is a Satan.” How, really, is Aribisala a Satan? “Aribisala is Antichrist.” How is he Antichrist? This discourse, fighting against calling him names, seeks to prove him wrong.

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, recently deployed a militia of local hunters to hunt down “Fulani” herdsmen in reaction to a recent incident in Ikole Ekiti, where some local people were killed as a result of clashes between “Fulani” herders and the local agrarian community. I have been trying to follow the arguments of those supporting the governor’s reaction to this unfortunate – but avoidable – incident.

IN Nigeria today, Religion is always used for wrong reasons. We witnessed the OIC palaver of 1986 which nearly split our country in two, the religious riots in the old Kaduna State during which a number of churches were set ablaze and innocent lives were lost, the Sharia controversy in some states in the North in 2000 which also led to loss of human lives and harassment of the Christian minori-ty in those states, the subjection of Nigerians to noise pollution issuing from churches and mosques, the exploitation of religious differences by politicians who would do or say anything to get votes, the use of religion to justify the obviously politically motivated Boko Haram insurgency, to mention but these. Religion is once again in the news, this time in Osun State on the wearing of HIJAB.

The IDPs have been languishing from hunger and dying in droves while Nigerians out there have been made to believe all along that the victims were being taken good care of. At least, that was what the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima had made us believe until Nigerains came to know the truth.

Religion is not a license for laziness. Quite the contrary. Religion is the means by which man, by careful observance of the rules given us by God, lives a life that ensures his physical and spiritual wellbeing.