It’s no longer a secret that the president of Nigeria, Mr Muhammad Buhari apologised to Nigerians and particularly the family of late Chief MKO Abiola for stealing the presidency, for detaining people unjustly and for murdering people. When I heard the news, my mind flashed back to over forty years ago. I was then a…
Nigerians love holidays. If there’s something, at least out of nothing the Nigerian government succeeds in, it’s massaging the bruised ego of Nigerians by supplying them with enough holidays to last till eternity. Or how else can we describe having June 12 as a democracy day in a country(?) with so many proofs of undemocratic…
So Buhari could go and commission a railway service in Lagos? He’s probably too old to remember he cancelled the metro-line project embarked upon by Alhaji Lateef Jakande when he toppled the Shagari government in 1984.The project handlers were said to have gone to court and it was alleged that the Lagos state government had…
The first eight verses of Genesis 11 tell the story of the Tower of Babel. It is about the Babylonians who wanted to build a tower to reach heaven. Their primary reason was to avoidbeing scattered across the face of the earth. However, God felt that if they had succeeded in building the tower, nothing…
Today is the anniversary of the great denial. Yes! MKO Abiola won an election which has been described as the best election so far in Nigeria. But Nigerians were denied the fruits of that election. Abiola himself was to die in a military gulag while presiding, not over Nigeria, but his cell. We’ve never had…
I hope the news I’m hearing of the Yoruba response to the herder menace is false! It’s no news that herders are already a menace in southern Nigeria. They commit trespasses, kill, rape, murder, kidnap and generally do not obey any law of decency. And, they are indirectly enjoying the support of the federal government…
So, a cultural festival has succeeded in becoming the trending topic. Not for the ostentation but for the lack of it as far as a professor reprimanding a lady for not dressing properly is concerned. Oh yes, the professor of education planning and policy told the lady point blank that she was indecently dressed. The…
