Columns culled from The Punch Newspaper website
Where there is absence of governance, or the impact of government is not felt, you have a situation that political theorists describe as a state of anarchy and insecurity, as currently obtains in most of Nigeria. Nigeria is fast becoming a space where governance is missing, especially in the aspect of security, which is Job…
The Chairman of defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who reportedly collapsed in the court of Justice Okon Abang the other day, provides a good reason for the gang of Nigerian governors to resist the temptation of dipping their sticky fingers into the pension funds of poor Nigerian workers. Maina was recently arrested in…
The Christmas and New Year holidays are here again and Nigerians must go through the motion one way or the other. These are the realities of a pedantic world that runs in a certain way, regardless of the state of everyone, as life happens to all. If Nigerians will find it in their hearts to…
A Yoruba folktale tells of the wily tortoise serenading the elephant with the song, “A ó m’erin j’oba,” meaning, we shall make a king out of the elephant, after which the elephant was eventually lured into a ditch! Could Pastor Tunde Bakare, Serving Overseer of The Citadel Global Community Church, Oregun Road, formerly known as…
In his eponymous drama, “Julius Caesar,” playwright William Shakespeare, the bard of Stratford-on-Avon, put it in the mouth of diviner Artemidorus to warn protagonist Julius Caesar that “Security gives way to conspiracy. Julius Caesar didn’t heed the warning and fell to the daggers of his treacherous associates. In Nigeria, under the watch of the President,…
The storming of the US Capitol by a rowdy gang of irreverent domestic terrorists, comprising The Proud Boys, QANON, the Confederate fringe, the Kú Klux Klan, and other ragamuffins, is not the exact equivalent of the 1789 storming of The Bastille in Paris, led by a band of public intellectuals, the Jacobins. The MAGA, or…
Someone, alarmed by the unthinking directive of the Nigeria Communications Commission requesting Nigerians to immediately obtain the National Identification Number from the lethargic National Identity Management Commission and link it to the Subscriber Identification Module of their mobile telephones in just two weeks, sent in this text message: “Dear Lekan… I will like to draw…
If you agree with scientists who say nature abhors vacuum, you will appreciate the emergence of Sunday “Igboho” Adeyemo in the cause of halting the assault, raping, maiming, kidnapping and killing of indigenes of South-West Nigeria by elements believed to be of Fulani extraction. Those who wondered how Iba Gani Adams became a candidate, and was installed…
To reduce future debt servicing bill, the Federal Government got the Central Bank of Nigeria to crash interest payable on Treasury Bills, then raised Value Added Tax from five per cent, to 7.5, per cent, to raise its revenue profile. But strangely, the same cash-starved Federal Government is shaving duties on imported cars from 35,…
No one should scare Nigerians with the expectation that the world’s migration from use of fossil fuel will plunge the Nigerian people into a desperate low. Only government revenue will be adversely affected. When CEO Ben van Beurden, threatens that international oil company, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, may exit Nigeria’s oil sector, only public servants…