Female Suicide Bombers
Like most people, I believe in God. But I am not what you would call a religious person. In fact, I regard religion a major contributor to the world’s problems.…
Editorial: 2015 and INEC’s Political Storm Warning
Against the background of a series of electoral failures since 1999, the indictment by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Attahiru Jega, that politicians, security agencies and other stakeholders…
Fraudulent construction of 2nd Niger Bridge – Another 419 on the Igbo nation
The construction of 2nd Niger Bridge through a Public Private Partnership involving Julius Berger -NSIA Consortium and tolling the Igbo people for 25 years thereafter is another 419 on the…
Victims of Devaluation
Regrettably, in spite of the earlier assurance to maintain Naira exchange rate stability in his inaugural address, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele’s policy summersault with Naira devaluation shortly afterwards, has…
Editorial: Obasanjo’s Book and Contempt of Court
Although the Judiciary never ceases to amuse Nigerians with its controversial positions on important national issues, the decision by Justice Valentine Ashi of the Abuja High Court to hold former…
A Crooked State Of Emergency
Well, I used to think that only the All Progressives Congress (APC) is exploiting and cynically looking to profit from the Boko Haram impasse. I mean, just a few days…
Editorial: 2015 and Nigeria’s Dog-eat-Dog Politicians
No other event perhaps, dramatizes the growing contradictions of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic better, than the theatre of political absurdity which the nation has become, in the countdown to the 2015…
2015 Election: The Charade Called Primaries
The primaries of the political parties which produced candidates for the 2015 elections have ended. But still, Nigeria is the poorer for it. As it was in 1999, so it…
The Black Flag of Terror and the Barbarians of Our Time
Thirty-six innocent ”non-muslim” souls were slaughtered in cold blood in Kenya on 2nd December by Al Shabab. Amongst them were defenceless women and children. The same thing happened in Kano,…
Editorial: Oyo Governor and his Cinderella daughter
Sensational media reports that, Abiola Kola-Daisy, daughter of Oyo state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, wore a dress that cost a whopping three million naira ($16,900) to attend the British Fashion Awards…