Boko Haram and the killing of Nigeria
This title is my cry for Nigeria. It is a title I used in my column of January 1, 2012. The latest (as of the time I am writing this) horrifying bombing of an interstate commuter bus station in...
View ArticleWanted! A leader to be proud of
Nigeria is in bondage, bondage of mediocrity and ethnicity. Each factor on its own is dangerous, combined, there can be no worse fate for a country. Right now Nigerians are disgusted with the...
View ArticleAchebe and his Igbo warriors
I wasn’t going to write anything further on the great literary giant of our time, Chinua Achebe, even upon his transition from this world, believing that I had written all I had to write both in praise...
View ArticleBoko Haram: Sof’lysof’ly catch monkey
Have you heard the good news, ol’ boy? President Jonathan has agreed to granting Boko Haram amnesty. And he’s even gone ahead to set up a committee to work out the modalities. “So what’s good about...
View ArticleBravo for Tinubu’s stirring speech
I read with relish Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s speech at the just held National Convention of his ACN party signalling its transmutation to the newly formed All Progressive Congress. But how I wish I were...
View ArticleA beautiful Nigeria through the lens of an Adedayo
There’s an adage that a picture is worth more than a thousand words. If that is so then, how many words would hundreds and hundreds of such pictures be worth? Too numerous to calculate. These and more...
View ArticleThe wisdom in kindness
My 33-year old RADA-trained actor son, OlaTunde (aka O-T) once, when he was but 15, asked me what I would consider the wisest saying of all. I thought deeply then recalled one I had come across but...
View ArticleDisturbing thoughts on Nigeria
What do I think of the latest huff and puff by some folk of the Niger Delta region threatening that “there will be no peace” in Nigeria if Goodluck Jonathan does not get a second term in 2015? It is...
View ArticleWith some friends who needs enemies!
The title is a common aphorism in Nigeria and the fact of its commonplace itself is a reflection of the general state of distrust in our society where “dog eats dog”, siblings betray siblings, and true...
View ArticleDemonic demonising
Nigerians all over the world, especially those in England, were in understandable frenzy during the week after the British media, true to type, made a song of the “Nigerian descent” of the two young...
View ArticleAmerica’s snubbing of Nigeria
As I read our own Ayo Olukotun (PUNCH columnist)’s column of last Friday with the above title, I chuckled. In it Ayo, a political science professor, was lamenting Nigeria’s exclusion from America’s...
View ArticleIs Osun truly at the onset of a revolution?
There’s been a flurry of activity in the State of Osun (you call a person or place how it chooses to be called, jo) in the last few weeks to invite the attention of Nigerians everywhere and raise the...
View ArticleThere’s only one party in Nigeria, and it’s not PDP
The struggle for power in Nigeria has long degenerated into a gang thing – the struggle to control the resources of the country largely for the benefit of the gang leaders and the patronage to their...
View ArticleI’m one with Jonathan on Boko Haram
If there was going to be any iota of sympathy or allowance left for the terrorist group going by the name Boko Haram, or whatever, they lost it with me and I hope for any other right thinking person on...
View ArticleThe Patience we need
“Something tells me, that woman will be the downfall of not only her man but our land, if care is not taken.” “Patience, young man, patience. You need patience. Your agitation is rash, presumptuous and...
View ArticleThe crude politics of underdevelopment
Nigeria is a peculiar country. Peculiar and sad. The more one looks at the country, her political structure and her leadership, the more convinced one gets that we are not a particularly serious...
View ArticleThe tacky business of domestic ‘deportation’
It is news that has left a bad taste in the mouth since it broke about a week ago. Whichever way it is looked upon and no matter the honey-coating state government officials or agents have tried to...
View ArticleSome sobering thoughts for us
Random musings they are, playing around my mind today for no particular reason. How many humans ever lived since “the creation” or since Homo sapiens evolved? And then: have all of whatever figure is...
View ArticleMemories of childhood
Dear Afam, I don’t know where you are, Afam, I don’t even know if you are alive or not since about 50 years ago we last saw. That was before the Nigerian Civil War (or the Biafra War) broke. Ever since...
View ArticleAPC manifesto: The hangman’s noose?
I have not seen, talk less read, the 31-page manifesto of the All Progressives Congress (APC) launched with expected pomp during the past week and so my opinion is based on excerpts published in...
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