Another Christmas: James Ibori and the “Invisible Man”
Christmas is here! This time last year many politicians from Delta State were queuing up in London, England to see ex-Governor and Gubernatocrat, Chief James Onanefe Ibori. They were far…
2015
The Blood of Nnamdi Kanu: Exit From Nigeria
The Blood of Nnamdi Kanu When people speak of the blood of Nnamdi Kanu, there is no intent to place it beside the blood of Jesus — that would be…
Dasuki’s Warning to Buhari : Anti-Corruption Miss Road
Col Sambo Dasuki has sent a strong warning to President Muhammad Buhari; and the encoded message is “back off! or we both will share the same prison cell”. The recent…
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition!
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition! In the arena of corruption, especially at the grand level where billions of dollars are stolen as a rule of thumb, secrecy and cover-ups…
Gagging Social Media: Nigeria
Gagging Social Media: Nigeria Ouch! The Nigerian Legislative Houses will through a least beneficial and developmentally obtuse act of legislation, the “Act to Prohibit Frivolous Petitions and Other Related Matters”…
Sambo Scandal & the “Owners of Nigeria”
Sambo Scandal & the “Owners of Nigeria” The “Sambo Scandal” (concerning one Col Sambo Dasuki) is just another story when compared to the full scale of looting in Nigeria; it’s…
Fuel Hoarding and Governance Failure
The GON is getting very tough at the “tail end” of the oil sector by punishing retailers of petroleum fuel for “hoarding” like they have “weak oil bunkerers”. Meanwhile, the…
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 7 – The Legality
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 7 – The Legality Surprisingly, University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) are respectable in the eyes of many. Why? because of their status of being…
Warri Pipeline Disaster: Negligence and Rumours
It has been a week now since the news of the explosion of an oil pipeline line in Warri occurred. The explosion happened just behind the 3 Battalion Army Barracks,…
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering? 2
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering? To say that the Government of Nigeria (GON) handles issues of the military of nature with either weak short-term “quick fixes” or opportunities for…
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering?
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering? The Government of Nigeria (GON) has sought to undertake a very unusual method of stopping or deterring “oil bunkering” in the Niger Delta; the…
Is the TSA a Panacea to Corruption?
Is the TSA a Panacea to Corruption? Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a diehard neoliberal, adopted the Treasury Single Account (TSA). This was when she was Minister of Finance under the presidency of…
Nigeria in Pieces: the Crushing of the Defenceless
Fela once called them vagabonds in power, VIPs. It now seems they are cowards in government, CIGs – Guynes One really has to consider the resounding cowardice of Nigerian leaders…
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 6 – The Selection
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 6 – The Selection If you live in a home with illustrious parents with lots of affluence and you have brothers, think. There is…
Nigeria in Pieces: Biafra & Kanu
Nigeria in Pieces: Biafra & Kanu The arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Biafran secessionist movement, was a grave miscalculation by the Government of Nigeria (GON). In 2015, I…
Nigeria in Pieces
When Sir James Goldsmith in his book, The Trap, predicted in the mid-1990s that the nation called Nigeria will disintegrate in a similar manner to how Yugoslavia did, many Nigerian…
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 5 – Selfish Genes
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 5 – Selfish Genes If you have read Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria, parts 1, 2, 3 and 4, you will not need any…
“Everybody Wants Change but Nobody Wants to Change”?
Accepting failed leadership as a good thing is surprisingly very well-accommodated in Nigeria. “Excuses” are the most valued tools in the hands of Nigerian leaders, their clients and their supporters.…
Devalued Naira or Devalued Republic?
Nigeria is still in its “supposed” anti-corruption mode from a governance perspective, but the current state of the economy is not going to permit its success no matter how hard…
The Government Has Jumped Up ‘Biafra’
The Government Has Jumped Up ‘Biafra’ The arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the voice behind Radio Biafra, has turned him into an international cause célèbre. Suddenly, world leaders, global NGOs, and…
Unionised Cultists: Okada Riders Rule with Impunity
Trade unions are purely or originally organisations that were created and existed to protect the rights of workers especially from the exploitation and insensitivity of the owners of capital, their…
Native Politics: Okija Shrine and Ngige
Native Politics: Okija Shrine and Ngige A familiar political face in Nigeria is gubernatocrat Chris Ngige. He is now a minister in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Ngige is…
Youth Leader Murders: The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption
While Nigeria was being firmly gripped by the ostensible “showbiz” of anti-corruption promoted by the new Nigerian government before and after the 2015 elections, many crimes were largely kept out…
Native Politics: Thieves and Treasures
Native Politics: Thieves and Treasures At the heart of Nigerian politics and the thinking something drives it. It is the pervasive ‘nativity’ that we cannot ignore or dismiss. Musing about…
Another Deadline, Another Dead End: Boko Haram’s Turn
Nigeria has had many deadlines foist upon its public through its chiefs governmental agencies as a show of commitment or as a precursor to a privatisation. Deadlines have been set…
Why “Anti-Corruption” is a Great Election Gimmick in Nigeria
Nigeria since independence in 1960 has had six democratically elected executives, the most recent being Muhammadu Buhari. The country has also had seven military heads of state; six by way…
Buhari: Prince of Thieves
Buhari: Prince of Thieves President Buhari has searched and decided. The Department of State Services (DSS) has done its screening and clearing of candidates. Furthermore, and the Nigerian Senate has…
The North–South West Election Alliance in Tatters
The South West has now been, rightfully or wrongfully, disaffected by President Muhammadu Buhari and his “Northern Bloc”. The unholy alliance between the North and the South West fostered for…
Suicide Rising: The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption
Anti-corruption is raging in Nigeria and governance as predicted is blind siding countless worthy and real issues for governance. Anti-corruption is not an excuse whatsoever for a nation or government…
Yankius on Deziani’s Whereabouts
Pepper Rest: I see Deziani for Ikoyi this afternoon with Lukman Rilwanu. As eh, Deziani na fine woman O! The charges against her na true? Yankius: Na Lekki I see…
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 4 – The Deviation
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 4 – The Deviation University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) started as idealistic brotherhoods with the reverie of changing some aspects of society. Most founding…
When Proper Democratic Process Fails Us: The Saraki Crisis
The “Saraki crisis” is making Nigerians and some foreign spectators of the three arms of government to rethink their understanding of the design and processes of democracy in the real-world,…
Will Bombing Big Thieves Do the Trick?
Will Bombing Big Thieves Do the Trick? Nations cannot bomb crimes out of existence as the Government of Nigeria seems to think and practice. When purely criminal or illegal activities…
Yankius on Saraki’s Buying of Prayers
Yankius on Saraki’s Buying of Prayers Pepper Rest: Any guy when wan cut sore for him body, I go cut sore for him body. Any guy when wan pull teeth,…
Privatise the Government of Nigeria!
Privatise the Government of Nigeria (GON)! It is amazing to hear that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s refineries are to be sold. Why? Because of inefficiency and under-performance problems if…
Yankius: APC Gubernatorial Primaries
Yankius: APC Gubernatorial Primaries Pepper Rest: Yankius you no greet me this morning? We dey quarrel? Yankius: I was thinking about something serious. Pepper Rest:And what might that be? Yankius:…
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria Development in Nigeria is a narrow focus on brick, mortar and tarmac constructions with imported technology gadgets thrown in. The masses appreciate and brag about…
The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption: What We May Not See
Nigeria appears to be definitively on track for major national and state anti-corruption initiatives; where the track will lead to nobody knows. The time and climate for disinterested and rigorous…
Gubernatocracy in Nigeria is Taking Big Blows
It is the case that 15% (i.e. 16 out 109) of all senators are ex-governors. This is part of Nigeria’s gubernatocracy. Gubernatocracy, the rule of Nigeria at federal level by…
Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists
Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists: A documentary on corruption in Nigerian journalism. Narrated and produced by Nic Muirhead; featuring journalists, Nicholas Ibekwe and Kadaria Ahmed; political economist, Grimot Nane; and Special…
The Important Lesson from #FasholaGate: Faceless, Nameless and Objectless
Usually, corruption scandals in Nigeria are typically “nameless” and “faceless” after the fact. The best’ name and face’ a member of public or even a prosecutor usually gets are that…
Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption
Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption The word and context of “empowerment” has come to take on in interestingly corrupt or perverse meaning of its own in everyday Nigerian parlance. Unlike its…
Buhari’s House and the “Pacts” that Hold It Together
President Muhammadu Buhari has a political “house” he heads and it is the recently emerged All Progressives Congress (APC). New houses either collapse or withstand whatever the elements throw at…
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation Many members of the public want to understand the thinking that perpetuates University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in Nigeria for…
When My People Personalise the Truth
When My People Personalise the Truth Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed…
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail Nigeria’s failing as a nation is not the work of God. Nigerian political economist Claude Ake, with conviction, said there was never any design…
Is APC the House of Refuge for the Corrupt?
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is the political party which the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari leads. President Buhari was elected by a popular vote…
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 2 – The Extortion
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 2 – The Extortion University campus grown fraternities (UCGFs) recently have, as a rule and mode of evolution, taken their preaching about government “badness”…
Oil and Gas Free Zone in Nigeria: What is it all About?
It was recently announced in July 2015 that Brass in Bayelsa State, Nigeria has been designated as an “Oil and Gas Free Zone” by the federal government. It was shocking…
Michal Lyons: An Angel We Will Never Forget
How could I or any of the people who had the privilege of knowing (Prof) Michal Lyons ever forgot her for the wonderful and inspiring person and personality she truly…
Probe: Nigerian Electric Power
Probe: Nigerian Electric Power Will the Probe of the Nigerian Electric Power Sector from 1999 to 2015 Succeed? The Senate probe into the management or mismanagement of the Nigerian Electric…
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria – The Claims
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria – The Claims There are many “university campus grown fraternities” (UCGFs) in Nigeria today, some old and some new, but they all claim to be…
Monkey Tail, a Date-Rape Drug in Nigeria
Monkey Tail, a Date-Rape Drug in Nigeria “Monkey Tail,” is an unlikely-sounding moniker. It is a drink made of ogogoro (local gin) left to brew in igbo (marijuana leaves, stems,…
Constant Electricity in Nigeria?
Constant Electricity in Nigeria is Very Risky Business There is a lot of chit-chat that one of the ”ministerless” wonders of the Buhari administration’s electricity supply to Nigerians across the…
Niger Delta Clean-Up for Profiteers?
Niger Delta Clean-Up for Profiteers? It has been announced by the Buhari Administration that the heinous cumulative oil pollution in the Niger Delta will be cleaned-up; this is very good…
Nuclear Power in Nigeria? Another Crazy ‘Pole Vault’
Nuclear Power in Nigeria? Another Crazy ‘Pole Vault’ For many years the Government of Nigeria seems to be managed by a class of “capability pole vaulters”. Government officials tend ‘pole…
Response: Culture is Not Costume
Response: Culture is Not Costume: Why Non-Africans Should Not Wear African Clothing http://www.mycoloures.com/2014/10/culture-is-not-costume-why-non-africans.html?m=1 Nneka Okona’s piece on the “wrongful appropriation” of female African dress is an interesting, challenging and well-written…
Nigeria After the 2015 Elections
Change: Nigeria After the 2015 Elections by Grimot Nane -Two Lectures – Master of Ceremony – Jide Lanlehin; at the Feast of Barracuda held by the National Association of Seadogs,…
The Ontology of the African VII: Play and Wound
If a leader or intellectual is not articulating the values and necessities of robust human pride to his people, he or she is a dangerous traitor unworthy of the position…
Oba Akiolu and King Zwelithini
Oba Akiolu and King Zwelithini: Different Persons, Different Subjects I am shocked crapious that certain people are making strong and equivalent comparisons between Oba Akiolu and King of Zululand for…
Violence in Mandelaland: Why?
Violence in Mandelaland: Why? ‘Mandelaland’, the land of Nelson Mandela, a Xhosa, is the Republic of South Africa. Mandeland is very far from being Mandela-like in any conception whatsoever. The…
Orubebe is Not Mad!
.Orubebe is Not Mad! If one wants to explain why former Minister of the Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) behave the way he did at…
Are Leaders or Followers to Blame for Corruption?
.Are Leaders or Followers to Blame for Corruption? Grimot Nane Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Studies Corruption is unsatisfactorily defined as the “misuse of public office for private gain”…
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread In everyday Nigerian parlance, the word “combination”, regarding food, connotes meals that comprise unlikely combinations of food items. Meals are combinatorial products. chips…
Nigeria’s “Tale of Two Election Day Silences”
There was considerable peace and “silence” during the 2015 Nigerian general elections yesterday. It was good news that apart from the “I am above the law” behaviour of some senior…
A Clueless Precedent By Nnimmo Bassey
When friends meet after a long while the questions that roll off after the handshakes, and maybe hugs, are often the standard “how have you been?” The pleasantries could continue…
Thieving: Incumbency in Elections
Thieving: Incumbency in Elections One would wonder why the power of incumbency of presidents and governors in Nigeria,elsewhere in Africa and other places in the world is well-near indomitable at…
Nigeria: Globalisation Democracy and the Possibility of a Coup d’etat
The United State of America is the chief exporter of “globalisation democracy” that has seen nations around the globe both encouraged and bullied into taking on two incompatible dictates of…
Buhari Will Be Dead in Six Months’ Time
Buhari Will Be Dead in Six Months’ Time Muhammadu Buhari, a presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2015 General Elections, is reported to be terminally ill with cancer and complications of…
Kneel Down Democracy
Kneel Down Democracy In the above photo we can see kneeling before the First Lady of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Ekaette Akpabio, the usually imposing State Commissioner for Works, Don…
Did the First Lady Reveal A Violence in Democracy?
“Anywhere you hear someone talking about change, stone that person” (three times in succession) – Patience Jonathan; Nigeria’s First Lady in her 2015 Election Campaign The word “stone” is a…
Postponement of Elections: Achebe
Postponement of Elections: Achebe Chinua Achebe was ostracised by the Western academy for his truthful but hard to swallow comments on two European intellectual sacred cows, Joseph Conrad and Albert…
How Does “Fuck” Relate To “Christ”?
How Does “Fuck” Relate To “Christ”? Common to social media, we are witnessing a tidal wave of swear words as ‘acceptable’ reactions. Reactions of disbelief, anger, disappointment or shock at…
Nigeria’s Big Thieves and Small Thieves
Nigeria’s Big Thieves and Small Thieves. “We hang the petty thieves & appoint the great ones to public office” – Aesop. Was Aesop not discussing Nigeria? #UniPortFour – 11 Oct…
President Jonathan’s Boko Haram Excuse Is Inadequate
When President Goodluck Jonathan claimed he had “underestimated” the Boko Haram insurgency it was the latest in a long series of things he should not have said, another public relations…
Owners of Nigeria Technostructure
Owners of Nigeria Technostructure In Nigeria there exists a non-market non-governmental extortionist technostructure that is nameless but for the purpose of convenience we shall call it the ONT (i.e. the…
Nigeria Tested by Choice: Buhari or Jonathan or No One?
The 2015 elections in Nigeria are about Muhammadu Buhari of APC and Goodluck Jonathan of PDP. Those who are not voting will be voting for ‘no one’. Voting for ‘no…
Bishop Kukah Also Embraces Semi-Primitivity
Bishop Kukah Also Embraces Semi-Primitivity Bishop Matthew Kukah has a lot to say about Nigeria and often has very interesting things to say. In an interview he makes an attempt…
Election2015: Eternal Baby Syndrome
Election2015: Eternal Baby Syndrome In the course of researching corruption and misgovernance in Nigeria it is not too hard to observe public servants and politicians. These persons of very high…
Fraternities and the Tolerance of Psychopaths
Fraternities and the Tolerance of Psychopaths The Nigerian university campus grown fraternity (UCGF) tended to start well but end up acquiring a good number of psychopaths. Most members of these…
Jazz Greats I Met: Clifford Jarvis
Jazz Greats I Met: Clifford Jarvis It was an autumn evening in 1996 when I visited the up and coming French jazz bassist, Collard Romain at his flat in Camberwell,…
Sanusi: Last Man Standing
Sanusi: Last Man Standing in Soludo’s Great Debate The recent bombshell released in the media by Charles Soludo is on his evaluation of the 2015 general elections. And the future…
Utomi’s Baffling Take on Soludo’s Bombshell
Utomi’s Baffling Take on Soludo’s Bombshell. Charles Soludo released his bombshell on the future of the political economy and state of Nigeria beyond the 2015 elections. It was a about…
The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy
The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy A stirring confession of a man’s anguish and recovery from the problem of male impotence just before he turned age forty using African herbs.
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