Why this noise above the din about the inadequate inclusion of women in Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet? There are many women who would reject unearned rewards. My big cousin, Mrs. Omobola Onajide, the first female electronic journalist in Nigeria, is that type. She is an activist in her own right for universal franchise not because she…
We Opt for Snail Speed to Prosperity
Those who allege that President Muhammadu Buhari is slow are right, viewing it with the lens of the People’s Democratic Party’s demolition squad of the last 16 years. Buhari is really slow not to tread the destructive route that has made Nigeria a piteous spectacle. How do we calibrate political speed? Let us use the…
Bringing Order to Public Service
The aphorism that “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” has never been more apt as that of today’s Nigeria’s leader. President Muhammadu Buhari must have prepared himself for the insults, filth and praises that come with the leadership of today’s Nigeria before he assumed power on May 29. A leader is like a…
Bamanga Tukur Still a “Global Villager”
Some of his old friends of my generation would call him in those glory days of Nigeria’s renaissance, “Lagos Boy.” He really represented the elements of that title in his youth because he knew that city and its people inside out. He was more than integrated with the people, defying colour, tribe and tongue as…
How to Fatten Nation’s Cow
When did wealth become the determinant to rule in what generically is called Yorubaland today? Was there a word known as “Yoruba” at the time Oduduwa ruled Ile-Ife? Was Odua an Ooni? Reports in some journals are perverting the history of Ile-Ife and its relationship with other towns and cities that speak a language…
End World Bank, IMF, SAP Regime
Sometime in 1970, General Yakubu Gowon, in his true element of frankness, returned from a trip to Equatorial Guinea and told journalists at the airport of his wish of a Nigeria that would be a pride of Africa in all respects. Click here to download a copy He always avoided the use of the word,…
The Acrobatic Nwabueze
The Internet has been awash with alleged improprieties of some South-west former office holders. Some are accused of land grabbing and financial irregularities. Others are said to have signed certificates of occupancy for lands after they left office. How one would wish these stories were true so that it would be sustained that greed is…
Busybody Troubleshooters
President Muhammadu Buhari swore to uphold the constitution and laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria last May 29. On that same day he made a covenant with Nigerians to fight corruption and improve their living conditions. Buhari has not spent 100 days in office. Can any person point, so far, to any infraction of…
Success and Destructive Egotism
Success could be cruel because it destroys its beneficiary if one is not properly prepared to receive the new status. The aplomb and gaiety that accompany success inebriate the so-called lucky ones. It is not only artistes that fall prey to the grandeur of the power of success, but also politicians and some other achievers…
Those Ungrateful to Heroes Past
Nigeria is full of claim jumpers who do violence to history for pecuniary reasons. It could not have been otherwise especially now that politics has lost its soul to mercenaries who change their parties as frequently as Marilyn Monroe changed her corsets, so to speak. What disjointed accounts of our recent past are they leaving…
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