The events at the inauguration of Nigeria’s eighth National Assembly (NASS) and election of its presiding officers raise a lot of issues. There are a lot of ways to discuss the events, but I will focus on three areas namely law, democracy and...
One of the most-talked-about take-away lines from President Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugural speech a few days ago is the “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody” sentence. It is a sublime expression of what an elected leader ought to be in a...
PART 1: By this time next week, General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) will become President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB). Since he will transmute from being GMB to PMB, let me play a pun on the new tag of PMB by sending my ‘Change wish list’ to his private mail...
To all who would be sworn in today as Senators and members of the House of Representatives, whether deserving or by stolen mandates, whether you would last or be kicked out when your fraud or other skeleton in your cupboard is discovered, I commend...
And so the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) came back as a single group, after two years of inane politics that tore it into two factions and made our country the laughing stock in the art of understanding the basic principles of democracy. Our...
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost.For want of a shoe the horse was lost.For want of a horse the rider was lost.For want of a rider the battle was lost.For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.And all for the want of a horseshoe...
If only they had seen the oil as a dwindling resource. If only they had appreciated that the bonus from oil windfall was an aberration and couldn’t be relied upon to build a dream on. If only they had saved for the rainy day. If only they did not...
And it came to pass that a certain Godwin Moffat Eyo who carries the title of ‘pastor’ got convicted this past week for stealing. That is no news because hundreds of people get convicted for stealing in Nigeria every week. It is also no biggie that...
It is a Saturday and I walk into this university bookshop where there are so many old and un-bought books on dusty shelves that you would almost mistake the place for a library. Just inside the main door are two women seated at a desk. They are...
On September 28, 2014, I took on then Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, in my column for his threat to stop “candidates with criminal records” from contesting the elections that were a few months away. I opined that the police boss...
