One proof that oil crime pays in Nigeria is the Federal Government’s award of N4 billion per month of oil pipelines security to Government “Tompolo” Ekpemupolo, a former Nigerian commander of the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (and the chief priest of the Egbesu deity, Niger Delta god of war). It’s…
Last week, the Nigerian Bar Association held its 62nd Annual Convention titled, “Bold Transitions,” and brought presidential candidates of some political parties to unveil the path they might be taking Nigeria if they became President of Nigeria in 2023. Both former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, respective presidential candidates…
Some argue that the Risorgimento — just a big word for the revival — of the political energy of Nigerian youths is coming on the heels of two separate movements whose dreams were cut short by Nigeria’s ancien regime politicians. The first is the spontaneous #EndSARS, the highly profound youth protest against police brutality. In September 2020, its…
You know too well that the Naira is weaker than it was when President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015. It looks as if he came, like nearly all his predecessors in the Fourth Republic, to oversee the depreciation of the Naira. How else do you explain that the Naira crashed from the official rate…
Today, a state burial is being held for Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday, September 8, 2022, after more than 70 years as monarch of the United Kingdom. She reigned longer than her great-grandmother Queen Victoria who ruled for 63 years and a few months. The only European monarch that reigned longer than Queen…
Whenever you see an American President standing between the podium bearing the Seal of the President of America and the flag that bears the motto of the United States of America besides the star-spangled banner—the flag of America—you cannot but marvel at the majesty. The motto, “E Pluribus Unum” or “One from many,” proposed by…
Colonizers Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, and neo-imperialist America, did harm to the economies of Nigeria and other peripheral economies of the world. Michael Hudson admitted as much. He touted the truth about the cause of the perennial poverty of the peripheral economies, relative to the metropolitan economies of North America, Western Europe and…
These days, many Nigerian youths (and oldies) are emigrating to North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Pacific (that include Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other counties in droves). It’s called “Japa” these days. Those who practically invade the consular offices of foreign embassies are the tame ones. Many others go on extremely dangerous…
For some inexplicable reasons, those who fear restructuring think it ends at power decentralization and fiscal federalism, the whittling down of the powers of the Federal Government that they have captured for personal and ethnic advantage. They have probably never thought, for instance, of liberalization of bank funding of mass housing, so that many more…
It’s certainly too late to do anything about the choice and character of those who will fly the flags of Nigeria’s political parties—at the presidential, governorship and legislative levels—in the 2023 general elections whose electioneering campaigns will officially kick off today. This is because the party primaries, which were dollarised in the main by politicians…