The half-hearted Constitutional Review train that deceitful members of the Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives took round the nation was a hoodwink after all. And Senator Oluremi “Madam” Tinubu, who couldn’t contain a mild interruption by her aggrieved constituents, caused a stir at the sitting of the Senate Committee public hearing in Lagos. Her…
There is a caveat to the discourse of this column today. As the Yoruba would say, whomsoever the mud that is splashed hits should please forgive. Splashed mud, as you know, is a loose cannon. Those who may be concerned should take a long term view of the problem and, for the love of humanity,…
As an Ex-May like the founder and CEO of Fourscore Heights Limited, Femi Osibona, one can attest to the high ethical drills put into pupils of Mayflower Junior School, the primary school, and Mayflower School, the secondary school, founded by Dr Tai Solarin, a man of muscular ethical standards. Dr. Solarin was the Chairman of…
Still on the argument that the 1999 Constitution should have been “annulled” immediately a civilian government succeeded the military that had enjoyed a long run imposing its command-and-control winner-takes-all culture on Nigeria’s polity. At a recent “Conversation by Media Industry Groups on Inclusion in the Electoral and Political Process” hosted by the Dr Akin Akingbulu-led…
Lagos is not just the place of the “indecency, lies and immoral acts of a typically rustic, countryside lady who went to Lagos and became sophisticated” as chronicled in Niyi Oniororo’s novel, Lagos Is A Wicked Place, the stuff of Onitsha Market Literature that Chinua Achebe described as “chronicles of social problems of a somewhat mixed-up, but…
It’s not too apparent that Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is aware that “igboro o r’erin” – the street is not smiling. That is how the “s’oro s’oke” generation, who conducted the highly successful #EndSARS protest of October 2020 and its equally successful one year anniversary in October 2021, will put it. Aides, like Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed,…
Those who do not know that man is merely coping with nature may not have realised that COVID-19 variants are becoming a force majeure, or abdication of obligations, that makes ineffectual the vaccines, the promise of immunity, formulated against COVID-19, the pandemic that is ravaging the world. And indeed some realists (and insurance brokers), who may…
Those who counsel Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, appear to have failed to appreciate the all-time wisdom of the first principle, whereby you deal with issues from the most foundational, to the next, and the next ad infinitum. Though the Yoruba approach it from the opposite end, by saying you should sort many trees that…
There are conflicting reports of an escape by Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III of Sokoto, who left the Nigeria Army (to ascend the throne of Shehu Uthman dan Fodio), as a Brigadier-General, through a window to avoid a horde of bandits who invaded a mosque. America’s General Douglas MacArthur once suggested that old soldiers never die,…
Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is stewing in a bind that he created. Out of N3.2 trillion of the old currency in circulation, he withdrew N2 trillion and pumped in a mere N300 billion in return. Now, there is about N1.5 trillion mix of old and new notes for Nigerians…