I’m made to understand there’s a joke amongst the Northerners in Nigeria. The wealthy men would usually build mosques on their premises. In most cases, most of the wealth comes from the commonwealth. They tend to see their riches as their own share of the national cake. The joke comes from the erection of the…

Faithful Christians are observing the Ash Wednesday today. It marks the beginning of the Lenten Season. After forty days of fasting, it will be Easter! However, in the Nigerian situation, are people not already fasting? Indeed, they’ve been fasting materially and spiritually. For the Christians, it hasn’t been funny. It could be said of them…

I still see the Buhari of 1984/85. However, there’s no doubting the fact that he is the Hercules that has tried to clean the Augean stable of our national mess. In fact, it is an understatement to say that the mess stinks to the heavens with a very unpleasant odour However, one thing keeps troubling…

Photo credit: African Development I was a great fan of the round leather game, soccer, in my youth. I actually loved those guys who could dribble their ways into goal. Some of them were Haruna Ilerika, Adokie Amiesimaka, Siji Lagunju, Scoro as Murtala Onigbanjo was known, Segun Odegbami, Rasidi Yekini and so on. Since I…