“Nigerians can overcome current economic difficulties with prayers” – Bukola Saraki during an interview with State House correspondents on Friday 9th September. Away from that quote, we must rule out two possible scenarios in relationship with his above statement. Doing […]
Whether or not a militant group called “Lagoon Avengers” might spring anytime soon owing to discovery of oil in Lagos remain debatable. Nothing political scientists predict about political dynamics goes unhappen, especially in third world societies. Dead like Claude Ake, […]
Can we hope that with a reduction of about 17 billion naira from 6.077 trillion naira initially tendered, the passage of N6.060tn, being budget for 2016 will improve the lives of Nigerians under the Buhari presidency? In all sense of […]
After key looters in past immediate government run to safe havens, say, UK, USA, UAE and European countries to mention a few: Clouds are gathering for President Muhammadu Buhari to finally hit the ground running on his anti-corruption crusade. Lately, […]
It is not the intention of this columnist to attack personalities nor any institution. Rather, he was inspired to write this as a result of defense made by compatriot Nigerians that Bukola Saraki, who doubles as Senate President and Chairman […]
In a long anticipated move, President Muhammadu Buhari made another six appointments on August 27, 2015 in what reaffirms the perception that southerners are shortchanged. What informed outcry owes to heterogeneous diversity of the Nigerian state and the need to […]
For Nigeria to extinguish insurgency up north and headlong combat Boko Haram whose recent wave of attacks has become the bloodiest executed by any rebel groups across Africa- a similar trend likened to ISIL atrocities in Middle East, security experts […]
If indeed Kaduna state first citizen, Nasir El Rufai possess 90 billion in his account and owns 40 houses, it calls for one to be intellectually provoked if this promised Change is realisable. Alas, his style of governance: first on […]
World over, the most corrupt institutions are; political party, police and the judiciary. Within the Nigerian context, the legislature, an arm of government saddled with law making is gradually overtaking the latter. Little wonder why contemporary political analysts dubbed it […]
APC lost in both National legislative chambers not because it did not strategize properly, it failed owing to surreptitious alliance between a faction of the party’s national bigwigs pursuing personal ambition. In politics, even a blood brother can act the […]
Days countdown to the fall of rulership by PDP, a party which steers the wheel of affairs in Nigeria since the rebirth of democracy in 1999. I watch with glee the shift to limbo, if not extinction of that once […]
In the course of my engagement with a long serving civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture pre- election sometimes February 2015. An ardent believer in Ghandism {The Truth}, a Marxist, Christian to the core, call him Deeper Church member […]
