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As a Septuagenarian, I cannot but feel concerned for the way our great nation, Nigeria is going. In my first decades on earth which were spent in Nigeria, I saw Nigeria as a country that I was extremely proud of as my motherland. Few months before I graduated from the University of Lagos in 1972,…
I saw a video clip of a group of young Yoruba elites canvassing the creation of Oduduwa Republic. The spokesman claimed that they are not even interested in restructuring;, that it is late in the day, but the outright creation of Oduduwa Republic. Carrying placards, they insist they are fed up with Nigeria and that…
The current entanglement surrounding the suspension of a popular online platform, Twitter, seemed to have revealed what opposition politics in Nigeria is all about. It is rather regrettable that the well-being of citizens does not matter to most opponents of the government. Almost everything is about personalities and self-aggrandisement. The country’s brand of opposition politics…
The President asked a question: Can they say that I have not been governing according to the Constitution? In the practice of law, lawyers are always delighted when such an open question is asked, because it is an opportunity to take up the gauntlet that has been thrown and score damning points in a case,…
On 6 June 2021, the leader of the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group confirmed the death of Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. ISWAP said that it carried out Shekau’s elimination on the direct orders of the group’s leaders in the Middle East. In the last 12 years, Shekau, on several occasions, has…
Twitter deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet where he said he was going to treat Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand”. Buhari said this after receiving security reports from the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on the series of recent attacks on its facilities nationwide. President Buhari followed it up in a…
Undoubtedly, every right-thinking Nigerian should be concerned about the state of our nation, a country we love so much known as Nigeria. Long before now, the country has been foremost attraction within and beyond the shores of Africa. It has been a nation so well respected because of the quality and quantity of our contents…
There are many who binge on elite conspiracies which are just mere grand designs to pollute the waters for personal advantage. This is one of the reasons why talks about how the Igbo have been mindlessly marginalised in Nigeria have always saturated the media space. For decades, many people, including the media have perpetuated wrong…
The assassination of a former Special Adviser on political matters to President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak has continued to generate reactions in a development that has hitherto remained controversial. Gulak was said to have been attacked and shot dead in a Toyota Camry cab taking him and two others to Sam Mbakwe Airport to catch…
For a long time, the call to give Lagos State a special status has been championed by different people within and outside the state. Although it has been unsuccessful so far, it did not stop Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu from renewing the call as he demanded state police, fiscal federalism, and a special economic status for…
