In the past three years, at least eight African countries have witnessed military coup d’états. This is coming when it was thought that Africa’s democracy had come of age when we were beginning to thi...
Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi, the designer of the Nigeria flag (Green/White/Green), takes a bow from this world. God bless his soul as he rests in peace. I believe in Nigeria. I believe in its people and the di...
Nigeria has always been about influence peddling, nepotism and favourotism, with an insignificant mix of tokenism, which the authorities brandish to prove the point that merit matters. However, in the...
In an interview with journalists recently, the Elegboro of Ijebu-Jesa in the Oriade LocalGovernment Area of Osun State, Oba Moses Oluwafemi Agunsoye stated that “no one can sit onthe throne as a monar...
Desperation drives irrational thoughts and actions, even as some analysts see it as the raw material of drastic change. One thing is certain though, never underestimate the desperation of people bound...
Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has an identity crisis. Although its language and dominant culture is Yoruba, the people insist that they are not Yoruba but ‘Ilorin,’ an amorphous identity that does ...
Abba Kyari, CFR, OON! Remember him? Kyari was the Chief of Staff (CoS) to formerPresident Muhammadu Buhari. Born on September 23, 1952, he served in that prestigiousposition between August 2015 and Ap...
We have looked at various forms of government in the first part of this treatise. We ended with the posers, “Can we continue this way? Is it the fault of the system or the operators of the system? Sho...
A friend and I were texting today about how our mornings had not started well. She had lost her keys and subsequently missed both a dentist appointment and a work meeting. I had placed an essential fo...
Email: [email protected]: 08055001912 An enduring characteristic of our national politics is its fluidity. It has much to do with the endless instability in our political parties and the lack of ...
