President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election is a challenge for him to immortalise himself in this home stretch of his active political life. He must draw from the same pool as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, Aminu Kano, Yakubu Gowon, Samuel Ogbemudia, Michael Okpara, Lateef Jakande, Tony Enahoro, Emeka Ojukwu and a few others who considered…
Respect Lagosians, Please
The two highlights of dying 2014 were Ebola and Boko Haram, none of which was pleasant to Nigerians. Whereas the good structure of Lagos health services fought Ebola, Boko Haram has been invincible because there is no comprehensible strategy for its containment. It defies the state and creates parallel governments as it claims more territories.…
Not Yet a Clear Path to Recovery
It was Nnamdi Azikiwe who said on television on his return to Nigeria during the civil war that no one used Sunday-School language to deal with a scoundrel. In fact, if a government resorts to arm-twisting and suppression to treat political matters, it invites equal physical resistance from the oppressed, because the law of changeless…