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Some mischievous individuals think that the olive branch overtures of the Fulani political elite on the herdsmen and farmers’ clashes is a red herring, an offering to halt the ire of the South-West against the renegade herdsmen who some suggest are the advance party for a future Fulani attack. This shouldn’t be true. But what…

Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries was in the eye of a storm created by Ms Stephanie Otobo who alleged that he promised to marry her, took drinks and gifts to her family house to ask for her hand in marriage, reneged after she got pregnant and did something to make her lose the…

Eric Blair, or George Orwell if you like, predicted in his book, “Nineteen Eighty Four: A Novel,” written in 1948, but published in 1949, that a phenomenon he called “Big Brother,” will be monitoring and dictating the direction and the quality of the lives of citizens, by 1984. The world would become a dystopia, a…

The childish attempt by a conglomerate of Northern Nigerian elements to blockade the transport of foodstuffs and cattle to the South-Western region of Nigeria especially is inappropriate and in bad taste. What seems to have stemmed a retaliatory step to blockade the movement of petroleum products from the South to the North was the unsolicited…

When a man is set in his ways, it’s going to take a miracle to change his fortune. This is because Man is a creature of habits, predictable rituals that set an individual or a people apart from others. A man’s character, some say, determines his destiny. To put it in the way of the…

The arrogant Southern Nigerians, especially of the Yoruba stock, nearly got their derriere exposed when the (disingenuous) ill-wind, blown by Northern Nigeria traders, nearly blockaded transport of foodstuffs and cattle down South. For the South to truly say, Never Again, to the Northern affront, provocation, blackmail and vice grip to their gastronomic jugular, they and…

The Presidential candidate of People’s Trust in the 2019 general election, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, insists that “Despite the increasingly frustrating realities in Nigeria, a united Nigeria still remains our best bet.” He continues: “Separatist advocacies are always ever so seductive during the moment of crisis, but they never deliver good results afterwards. Ask the people of…

State governors should independently plan to grow their economies, or their citizens should compel them. They must work with the local governments, which Section 7(3) of the 1999 Constitution requires “to participate in (the) economic planning and development of (their) area(s).” And the “statutory allocation of public revenue,” which Section 8 of the Constitution requires…

Though it may be inaccurate to say that Nigeria is a failed state, signs that its economy has gone down south, despite spirited efforts to turn things around, are many and scary. Following are some of the signs, in no particular order, of the gravity or impact. Each is troubling, to say the least. For…

Just as a drug has an expiry or a sell-by date so it doesn’t kill the patients it is formulated to cure, the suffocating 1999 Constitution of Nigeria has outlived its usefulness. It is doubtful it was ever useful to anyone, except those who wrote it to meet their parochial intentions. Pastor Paul Adefarasin of…