Issues/Policy

No doubt, the first reaction to an article bearing a title of this nature in a blame-weary nation that Nigeria has currently become, will be “What has that got to do with Jonathan again?”. While […]

Absence of security and humanitarian intervention has left the state of Zamfara in a hazardous condition. The killings of innocent people in the state has made it unsafe and without security for at least four […]

The rescheduled presidential and national assembly elections are here with us, and I feel compelled once more to offer a word of caution to Nigerians, especially, the youths, as I did four years ago with […]

“How do we restore morality and truth to our elections?” This quotation is from Kole Omotoso’s “On the waging of elections” which appeared in his column last Sunday, March 17, 2019. The line berthed the […]

She is an avid follower of my written opinions. My treatises on theology and ecclesiology make her skip for joy. Liberally, she scribbles uplifting comments on my inspirational and motivational writings. But, she hates my […]

Duke Orsino, in ecstasy and fantasy, had sang melodiously in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: “If music be the food of love, play on/give me excess of it, that surfeiting/the appetite may sicken, and so die”. Duke […]

In recent political commentaries, there is a tendency to dismiss the need for integrity from our leaders. Now and then, someone analyses the Nigerian social situation and concludes that what we need is not a […]

The popular On-Air-Personality, Daddy Freeze, is a courageous man. Best known for vicious criticism of pastors, his messages are revolutionary. It is not anybody who wakes up in the morning and decides to go against […]

The paradox in the message contained in the worrying statistics from Nigeria’s electoral management body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, after the just-concluded general elections is difficult to miss: the more it seems Nigerians have […]

This Saturday, one then wonders whether it is real electorate-driven elections that are coming, or we are expecting supplementary disruptions and failure afterall. In an electoral system that seems to be sliding back into much […]

The entire scenario surrounding the collapse of a three-story building, harbouring pupils of Ohen Nursery and Primary School, Ita-Faji, Lagos Island, has again brought to the fore the increasingly apathetic attitude of parents, government and […]

On February 15, I watched on television the inauguration of the Yenagoa airport. The airport occupies 2,250 hectares of land. It has 3.5kilometres run way. One of the world’s largest air cargo companies will establish […]

In response to the recent deaths and series of unfortunate occurrences that have plagued the Nigerian state in the recent times, ranging from the killings from the so- called herdsmen to accidents and explosions and […]

Kawu Modibo’s usual attacks on the Saraki family, particularly Bukola Saraki, the enigmatic Nigerian Senate President, is not just a past time but actually, an occupation pursued with uncanny passion. A media man of repute, […]

Olawale Folorunso and Bode Sowunmi who were with me and who had been listening to the argument over the proposed recruitment of Eshu as a polling agent eventually intervened. Bode Sowunmi wanted to know if […]

…nonetheless, it is impossible to deny the shadow of Karma now engulfing Okorocha. Some eight years ago, he too barely waited for then Governor Ikedi Ohakim to write his hand-over notes before bombarding banks with […]

The senate has passed the bill raising the national minimum wage to N30,000. The upper legislative chamber passed the bill after adopting the report of its ad hoc committee on the national minimum wage at […]

The contests for various positions in the 2019 general elections were extremely viciousin in many places. Whether for the executive or legislative positions, the contestants acted as if their lives depended on it. Or better […]