We cannot continue in denial. Our problems are growing faster than we are solving them. We cannot sustain this model much longer. Our country is not meeting the economic, social and cultural needs of the majority of Nigerians. Not because it cannot, but, because we are self-harming. We should begin to...... more
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I have a fascinating affection for the English people and substantially with the English Language, because of a number of factors. First, as someone who in his early teens in the 1980's in the high school became fascinated with current affairs and also as one of the well-performing students of the...... more
Motivated by media reports of habitual harassment and abuse of young women over a period of three decades by powerful Hollywood director Harvey Weinstein, Alyssa Milano on 15th October, 2017 tweeted: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted, write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” Within a period of...... more
Some years ago, a hot debate engulfed Nigerians of all ethnicities which is centred on the right age of marriage for the female population. The topic was the concern of callers to the late-night national discussion programme, ‘Tuesday Live’ on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). Expectedly, the first respondent, Zainab, who coincidentally...... more
As I watched the trending story of the instituting of a law suit against a British a tabloid by a member of the influential British royal family, Prince Harry, to stop what he perceived as serial harassment of his beautiful mixed-race wife, Meghan, I had a flashback of a personal experience....... more
There are two different issues that have just cropped up in the public domain and have constituted the discussion points for most commentators observing the trajectories of the counter terrorism war being waged by the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I must say that everyone who is somebody...... more
So much has happened in our country in the past one week that speak to the challenges confronting us after 59 years of independence. Last Thursday, following a police raid, as many as 300 boys were rescued from an Islamic Centre in Kaduna State. Many of the victims said they had...... more
First, the dilemma a child encounters in relation to marriage are the handiwork of adults. The dilemma is one of age, or more accurately, relative age. To the legal system, the age of an individual is a determinant in the right to marriage. Relative age – parent-child, elder-youth – directs who...... more
Two years ago or slightly less than that, I penned a lengthy article about the rise and rise of the Nigerian outlaws. The centerpiece of the reflection was on how the terrorists that most Nigerians know have become so influential to an extent that the two men employed and paid with...... more
You may have heard the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” It is credited to James Carville who worked for Bill Clinton as a strategist in the 1992 US presidential race. Indeed, the economy determines the supply of opportunities and how it is distributed. That is why in many countries the economy...... more
I watched with incredulity and shock as the current Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Alhaji Abubakar Malami, was sweating to extricate himself from the journalistic firestorm of Focus on Africa, when he was interviewed inside the imposing Central London office of the publicly-owned British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The reporter...... more
There is this interesting WhatsApp story of a drunkard who woke up one morning deeply repentant after a bitter fight with his wife the previous night. Intent on ameliorating the situation and turning a new leaf, the man took out the crate of beer he believed was responsible for his character...... more
Just as with misinterpretations of Jihad, there has been a gross display of sexual behaviours among Muslims in relation to combat. First, there were reports of mass exodus of mostly Arab women from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, and Egypt into Syria to act as sex toys for combatants.Everyone involved seemed to...... more
In both politics and sports, racism has remained a major stumbling block to the fullest realisation of the underlying objectives for establishing both sectors in human community. Politics, if qualitatively played, has the potential of unleashing the highest standard of living for the greatest percentage of the people of such a...... more
The constant xenophobic violence unleashed on Nigerians living in South Africa has a constant reminder for the millions of Nigerians who subscribed to the paid television services of the wholly South African operated MultiChoice television, otherwise known as Digital Satellite Television (DSTV). This reminder that the series of xenophobic attacks on...... more
With tension brewing between the United States and Iran following last week attack on a Saudi Arabian oil facility which removed as much as five percent of global supplies, there has been an unprecedented jump in the price of crude. With that, there is the temptation to believe Nigeria will benefit...... more
Every morning when I wake, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day. In any city, wherever I go, making speeches, holding meetings of my organisation, or attending to other business, Black men are watching every move I make, awaiting their chance to kill me. I have said publicly many...... more
Lt-Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai is a hard core military officer with some impressive academic laurels. He is reputed to have garnered good enough battle field credentials which, in the first instance, qualified him for the top job in what is regarded as the biggest army in Africa. But he has also...... more
The judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has been delivered. However, it does not appear to be the end. I understand that the petitioners are not satisfied with the judgement and are heading to the Supreme Court. The question is, after the Supreme Court what next? This case should...... more
Few days back, I occupied myself with the usual habit of reading through all the editorials of at least, the key national newspapers in Nigeria. This was done to read the pulse of the nation, given that the primary role of the media is to set agenda for the country. Mind...... more
In May 2017, my first daughter had just completed her West African School Certificate Examination and was home when I got a message that her siblings were at the National Children’s Park and Zoo on excursion from their school. She decided to accompany me to see them. As we drove into...... more
From what I heard and saw on the Saturday nights I spent hanging around in the Black district, I knew that race-mixing went on in Lansing. Every African, I guess, knew how white men would drive along certain streets in the Black neighborhoods and pick up African streetwalkers who patrolled the...... more
Few days back, I had a brief stopover at the premises of the Imo State University, Owerri, and the sights and sounds that yours faithfully perceived and heard were frightening and disappointing at the same time. The first shocking phenomenon I noticed was the rapidly declining standards of physical infrastructures and...... more
As di sisi use one hand hold steering and kukuma use di order hand hold my kini, my body jus mellow. I use corner eye look di sisi. Di sisi sef use corner eye look me. I see say e jus dey smile. Na dat time I sabi say no be...... more
Every morning when I wake, I regard it as having another borrowed day. In any city, wherever I go, making speeches, holding meetings of my organization, or attending to other business, Black men are watching every move I make, awaiting their chance to kill me. I have said publicly many times...... more
Even before I began receiving inquiries regarding the controversial $9.6 billion judgement that has become a Sword of Damocles over Nigeria, I was digging to find out what happened. Late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, under whose administration the said contract was signed, is not around to defend himself so I felt...... more
Currently, I am battling to finish with the arduous task of reading some key books I recently bought. One of such books is the latest copy from Richard Templar, an award-winning author in the Western world. His The Rules of people is such a fascinating book that tells so much about the different...... more
We have been travelling for nearly 59 years since independence, and the last 20 years non-stop. That is a long time to travel. But, why is it taking us so long? Where are we really going to? Where are we now? How far have we travelled? How long would it likely...... more
On Sunday this week, I boarded the Air Peace Airline to Owerri, the Imo State capital, to personally witness the beginning of the remaking of history in the Eastern Heartland, which has only recently come out of eight years of desolation and crass bad governance by the immediate past governor, Mr...... more
In 2003 or thereabouts, while still living in Lagos, I was invited to the Bournvita Award for Teachers ceremony to read the awardees citation along with Mrs. Adesuwa Onyenikwe of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) fame. Veteran actor, Mr Olu Jacob, was also there, as he said, to give moral support...... more
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