An embarrassing comparison is doing the rounds on social media: Ukraine, with a mere 600,000 square kilometres of land, is 2 percent of Africa’s landmass of 30 million square kilometres. Its 40 million population is 3 percent of Africa’s 1.3 billion people. Yet, most shamefully, Africa, with big giant Nigeria, is waiting on Ukraine, whose…
Two things prevented the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), from putting his assent to the Electora Act Amendment Bill that came from the National Assembly. The booby-traps of electronic transmission of election results and direct primaries that could take the process of choosing candidates for elective offices further to the grassroots. The former checkmates…
Now to playing Nostradamus, formally known as Michel de Nostredame, French astrologer, physician and seer, who was born in 1503 and died in 1566. In 1555 he wrote a book, Les Prophéties or The Prophecies, a compilation of 942 poetic quatrains or stanzas of four lines to predict the future. Unlike predictions of Nostradamus, based on…
When a team of journalists from Arise News Television asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), why Nigeria would fund a railway line — complete with rail tracks, coaches, engines and personnel — from Kano to Maradi in the Niger Republic, he explained that he had first cousins in the Niger Republic. Apart from laying to…
Finally, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Senator and former Governor of Lagos State, informed Nigerians that he has told the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that he’ll run for President of Nigeria on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2023. This is Tinubu’s first step to cashing in his political IOUs from…
Please pardon what seems to be an attempt to go back in time to the two most disgraceful events that occurred in Magodo Estate in the closing days of 2021. It’s a necessary audit. Nigerians—and their governments—must expect that the two hullabaloos that occurred in Magodo Estate in Lagos State need a second look, the…
Candidates with the intention to cheat during examinations have almost diverted the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board from its primary assignment of administering the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination into an agency of supersleuths as it constantly seeks ways to foil candidates’ attempts at examination malpractices. But at a recent parley with members of the Nigerian…
If you didn’t see video footage of the Arabian Night wedding of Yusuf ibn Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and the lavish 63rd birthday of Dr Ahmed Lawan, President of the Nigerian Senate, you won’t appreciate the level of hedonistic degeneracy of Nigerian politicians. Let no one begrudge Yusuf Buhari and his bride, Princess Zahra,…
The other day, a friend argued that yours truly, who regularly quotes Nigeria’s Constitution, should initiate and lead a Society for the Study of Nigeria’s Constitution. The society, with members from all estates of the Nigerian realm, should constantly interrogate the Constitution to draw attention to its inadequacies. Many state actors, especially in the executive…
Now that presidential aspirants are crawling out of the political wood works, the media has to raise the issue of political restructuring of Nigeria. Nigerians who want restructuring, and those who do not, deserve to know the position of the aspirants before they emerge as presidential candidates. The media and the electorate cannot allow the…