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Osinbajo, Bakare wrong on Nigerian unity
UNTIL the coalition of northern youth groups addressed the press and announced they were giving the Igbo living in the North a three-month ultimatum to quit the region, most Nigerians had become quite...
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Biafra and Nigeria’s identity crisis
IF there are Nigerians who can define their country’s national identity, that is, who Nigerians are as a people, they are a very rare breed. As indicated in this place last week, without that...
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Obasanjo and lessons not learnt
FORMER president Olusegun Obasanjo was characteristically blunt and scathing last Tuesday when he tried to justify the retirement of military officers who were described in 1999, when he assumed...
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Osinbajo, senate and the Magu snafu
IT is not often clear where to draw the line when a speaker gives an unprepared speech or interjection on behalf of someone else. The disavowal by former Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole of union...
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APC must resolve impasse to avoid disaster
IT isn’t an impasse in the true sense of the word, but the inability of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency to resolve the Ibrahim Magu confirmation crisis is bound to have adverse impact on the ruling All...
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PDP’s second chance
BEFORE the Supreme Court gave judgement in favour of the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday morning, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) thought it still had the...
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Nigeria must brace up for far worse oil troubles
WHETHER they like it or not, Nigerians will have to determine whether to restructure or break up. Visionless and typically unserious about the future, they get bogged down in definitional...
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Obasanjo’s puzzling homilies
FORMER president Olusegun Obasanjo is so full of contradictions that it is sometimes pointless subjecting his world views and statements to analysis. The analyst will always be at a loss where to begin...
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Buhari’s handlers manage presidency poorly
THE Muhammadu Buhari presidency obviously finds it difficult to learn from experience. Early this year, it took a number of trips by some Nigerian leaders to see the president in London to douse...
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Nnamdi Kanu as unlikely hero
SOME newspapers estimated the crowd that welcomed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, into Ebonyi State last week to be about 100,000 strong. Media establishments in Nigeria lack...
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Age and presidency: Barking up the wrong tree
BY the time the constitutional amendment process moves to the 36 states, many of the alterations already passed by both chambers of the National Assembly could still come to grief. Thirty-three...
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Promoting self-determination campaigns by default
DESPITE Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s protestation to the contrary, and the continuing lambast of the sometimes disruptive activities of self-determination groups by many Nigerians, the meeting last...
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Pro- and anti-Buhari demonstrators lather Abuja
ABUJA, the federal capital, has been entertained for some days with a pirouette of protests and fanciful police footwork over the quandary the ailing but apparently convalescing President Buhari has...
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From hate speech to hate song. What next? Hate poetry?
HATE speech, the new buzzword in Nigeria, is of course an overarching term that embraces speech, songs, poetry and even body language, and much more. Given the rate Nigerians are provoking one another...
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Fed Govt/ASUU: a tinkering that knows no end
IN February when the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, inaugurated a 16-man team headed by Wale Babalakin to renegotiate the 2009 agreement the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) reached...
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Buhari’s controversial speech
It was not compulsory for President Muhammadu Buhari to address the nation on his return from 103 days of receiving medical attention in the United Kingdom. After his first trip in January that lasted...
View ArticleReading the signs of the times
GIVEN The tumultuous events of the past few years, it is strange that Nigerians do not recognise the tumult as a sort of handwriting on the wall. The Northeast is still embroiled in the Boko Haram...
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Championing restructuring
IN his broadcast two Mondays ago, President Muhammadu Buhari suggested to self-determination agitators that both the National Assembly and National Council of State were the “legitimate and appropriate...
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2019: Atiku fires first shot
IF anyone expects ex-president Atiku Abubakar to be agitated by the furious reactions to the broadside he fired on the Muhammadu Buhari presidency last week, or by the hasty and indiscreet statements...
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The Yoruba, regionalism and future of Nigeria
IN a move certain to inspire the Southeast and South-South on how to peacefully pursue self-determination within a united Nigeria, prominent leaders and governors of the Southwest met in Ibadan last...
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