Saying Nigerian politics is interesting is an understatement of the year. Yes, daddy!Thank you, daddy!! Those are the new mantras! I guess they’ll solve the multifaceted problems confronting the nation. In a country where our well-known religious fervency has reached the level of indoctrination, is it any surprise that a presidential candidate, rather than seeking…
I hear some lazy Nigerians have gone to town lampooning the Nigerian president for going to the UK on health grounds. Some Nigerians who are based in London even went as far as going to demonstrate at Abuja House, the Nigerian consulate in the UK! What’s the matter with us? Nigerians should have known that…
At times like this when we see people who have turned something that could have been embarrassing into an act of strength or courage we should sound the cymbals in their praise. I wouldn’t know where a blackmailer got the Waka Queen, Salawa Abeni’s nude photographs from. The fact is that the person contacted her…
Why is it that only a few Nigerian statesmen are getting it right? I just watched the API-organized ‘The Rush to Canada’ by Nigerians. The most pathetic thing was when one Dr Bassey, who represented Abike Dabiri, implied that if people in the northwest of Nigeria were not running away from the country – rather…
Isn’t it funny the way some so-called royal bloods choose to desecrate the very stool on which they are sitting. But then, the fault is hardly theirs. It’s the fault of what we have chosen to become. That the Oluwo of Iwo has decided to become an emir is no longer news. The fact that,…
Nigeria is a reporter’s delight, any day. Of course, the reading public will normally enjoy the news made by newsmakers. They will even debate and argue on some of the news. Like the goofs! Chief Obafemi Awolowo was tried for treasonable felony in the first republic. The trial judge was a Yoruba man like the…
For the avoidance of any doubt about the topic, in as much as I believe Nigeria could exist as a (con)federal entity, I believe we still exist as a collection of glorified nations. Those who have that belief would hardly be surprised by the goings on in Nigeria. To make matters worse, the colonial military…
