Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release
When the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that President Bola Tinubu had constituted an eleven‑man committee to develop a National Threat Assessment and a Strategic Defence Operations Plan within ninety days, with about four months to the general elections, several things struck me even before I reached the substance of the directive.
President Muhammadu Buhari, the twenty month jinx by Fani-Kayode
Permit me to begin this contribution with an interesting and historically accurate observation made by the Vanguard Newspaper on 3rd February 2015. They wrote,
The Crisis we face in the Lake Chad Basin
GENEVA—I have lived in and worked in, loved, written and cared about Sub-Saharan Africa virtually my entire adult life.
Importance of productivity for personal and organisational success
I AM delighted to attend the opening session of this 2-Day seminar on ‘Work Ethics and Attitudinal Change for Improved Productivity.’ I am of the view that this is one of the most consequential topics for the workplace today.
I want to go to London… to see Buhari by Reuben Abati
When 15 million plus Nigerians voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 General elections, their expectation was that he would be available to serve them 24/7/365, and that those who fielded him as their candidate had done their home work to avoid what is curiously becoming the Katsina problem in Nigerian politics. Katsina! But we have now found ourselves in a situation whereby our President is now in London, for more than one month sir, ma, and we are here, and we have an acting President, who according to everybody, including the extremists and the mischievous, and the politically partisan, is beginning to try his best, with his admirers, now praying for the worst.
How would posterity judge my generation?
Permit me to preface this piece by celebrating two of my friends whose promotions provided the occasion for me to reflect again on an issue that keeps returning to my attention, especially on the Nigerian conundrum of development and progress.
