As a lad growing in the sleepy but egalitarian Ubulu-Okiti community in Delta state, Nigeria, I was sternly warned by my father never to  celebrate or trust a man that betrays another to make me  happy as he will...
I never met Professor Halimatu Sa'adiya Idris, and I will never meet her. At least not on earth. However, I was so angry about  the reasons adduced for  her removal as Education Commissioner in Katsina State that on January 29, 2018, I...
A lot has been said and written about Africa and the continent's inextricable bind to superstitions. Anthropologists have documented cases of unyielding magical manifestations and interpretations of reality. They have extensively explained the potent role of religion and the...
When we wrote much earlier that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria's ruling party was a coalition of strange bedfellows and a one-chance special purpose vehicle to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan by all and any means possible,...
It has become a routine ritual that every month, the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) must end with fighting over shortfalls in remittance of accrued revenue into the central coffer. This year alone, we have recorded seven deadlocks in FAAC...
We woke up on Monday 30th July, 2018 to another episode of impunity in the soap opera of the Failed APC Federal Government. Impunity is now the name of the game. They are desperate to surpass all previous records...
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history,...
Senate President Bukola Saraki was never a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). His membership was in name, but not in character. Though he played a pivotal role in bringing the APC to power, his contributions were never...
Following the frenzy that has overwhelmed Benue state, the House of Assembly has been turned into a showground of monumental lawlessness. A mountain of illegalities is being built by the lawmakers in furtherance of selfish political agendas. The first...
You don't ask a toad to give you a chair. You can vividly see it's squatting
To say that Nigerians are easily excitable people is stating the very obvious and indeed our political players do not spare any effort in...
