Nigeria: New Golden Age?
Nigeria: New Golden Age? President Bola Ahmed Tinubu wants to return Nigeria to its Golden Age of former times. We would all love that, except...
Yankius: Stingy & Generous Politics
Yankius: Stingy & Generous Politics Penny Wise: O Yank! How come we don’t hear from you anymore? Don’t you have a candidate you support? I...
Economic Sectors – Not Complementary
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ASUU Demands Are So Simple
ASUU Demands Are So Simple How can a sapiocidal (killers of the most intelligent) government have credibility? The industrial action of the ASUU of 2022...
Pauperising Professors: Pay Them!
Pauperising Professors: Pay Them! What is the Adamu Adamu Syndrome? National disgrace is something the Buhari government neither understands nor cares about. The world is...
Does National Security Expire?
Does National Security Expire? The Anarchy The anarchy brewing in Nigeria is near complete. Noting the security problem in Nigeria is dire is not news....
Nigeria Youth Storm Rebellion
Nigeria Youth Storm Rebellion Abuja 8 a.m. The Assistant Inspector General of Police assures six senators in confidence, “It won’t happen, it won’t happen, Wallahi!”...
Are Vice Chancellors to Blame?
Are Vice Chancellors to Blame? The ASUU Strike of 2022 is raising important questions and responses we must not dodge. Market reforms now demand Vice...
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6 The Final Target “Nigeria needs its public research universities and teaching hospitals despite the plans of the...
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5 The Second Target “The neglect of a child is abuse; a nation’s neglect of its youth is...
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4 The First Target The continuing romance of the Government of Nigeria (GON) with globalisation is ever demanding...
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 3
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 3 The Unexpected “Often your most visible adversary is the least dangerous.” The Nigerian youth as an unintended...
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 2
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 2 The Provocation The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and their colleagues Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) are...
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 1
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 1 The What? “Revolution is believed in only after it has been accomplished.” – Book of Changes, Hexagram...
Papiration And Bad Nigerian Politicians
Papiration and Bad Nigerian Politicians Papire is a practice several politicians and their clients in Nigeria embrace to achieve and hold on to power for...
Being A White Businessman in Nigeria: Part 2
Being A White Businessman in Nigeria: Part 2 An further view of White privilege among the power elite and bureaucrats in Nigeria. National Pride appears to...
Being A White Businessman In Nigeria
Being A White Businessman In Nigeria An introductory view of White privilege as it happens in the corridors of power in Abuja, Nigeria and elsewhere...
Where is Nigeria’s Great Middle-Class in 2021?
Where is Nigeria’s Thriving Middle-Class in 2021? The Youth Want to Know. A truism of economies is they thrive when they have a large stable...
The New Economy After Covid
The New Economy After Covid: If you are in the lower and middle income brackets. As we approach the uncertain aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Illiterates Did Not Win Buhari Elections
Illiterates Did Not Win Buhari Elections Why should ignorance and illiteracy always take the blame for the failings of the weak democracy in Nigeria? It...
Yankius: Arsenal F.C. & Fainting Thief
Yankius on Arsenal F.C. and the Fainting Thief Riverine Remedy: Yankius, you self, you cannot even ask after me if I don’t call you. Na...
Cycling Education and Strong Institutions
Cycling Education and Strong Institutions Formal education is one of the most overrated things in human development people on the African continent can gain. Maybe...
An Unusual Conservative Perception of Covid
An Unusual Conservative Perception of Covid Ideology can be such a blinding and narrow-minded state of mind, individual or collective. Accurate history informs us that...
The Leadership of Rotten Parts
The Leadership of Rotten Parts The magic of Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has come from his citizens. But nothing of significance he has done as leader...
The Perception of Development: Nigerian-Style
The Perception of Development: Nigerian-Style One of the most interesting but intractable things about development in Nigeria is the pervasive perception of both what it...
Corruption is the New Meaning of Life
Corruption is the New Meaning of Life: It Is Here to Guide Us Corruption shows its face unobstructed in most forms of social organisation in...
Fulani Herdsmen & The British Legacy of Guilt
Fulani Herdsmen & the British Legacy of Guilt “Guilt by community association” (GBCA) is back in Nigeria in fresh form in 2018. Not by the...
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership 2
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership 2: Questions & Answers. “Federalism” and “restructuring” and related terms are all political jargon. It means they are not so easy...
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership “Restructuring”; its meaning is debatable, and for many, it is about oil, resource control. Surprisingly, many see resource control as the...
Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents
Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents. How else do you measure it? There are many able Nigerian analysts, commentators, pundits, academics and journalists who have rightfully...
“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope
“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope There is an insightful article for those interested in governance by Taiwo Makinde titled Problems of Policy Implementation in...
Gowon & Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture 2
Gowon & Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture 2 I reject the claim the article titled Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture, which I wrote is guilty of...
Gowon and Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture
Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture Access to drugs policies have been most responsible for either a rise or decline in the demography of...
The Portrait of a Nigerian Druggie Youth
The Portrait of a Nigerian Druggie Youth Inspect the photograph. In the photograph, you can see the portrait of a young teenager in a blue...
Sapele’s Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic
Sapele’s Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic: It is alarming. One must wonder what happened to a once genial and hope-filled town called Sapele. It was a...
Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves
Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves President Buhari, like many past Nigerian heads of state, is living proof of why slavery flourished along the...
Did Wole Soyinka Blame the Nigerian Youth?
Did Wole Soyinka Blame the Nigerian Youth? Recently, Wole Soyinka, wrote a speech or article titled “Where Did We Go Wrong?” It mentions a list...
Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot
Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot It is very brazen political lying to equate the refund of stolen funds to the state with political success or successful...
Nigeria Decivilising
Nigeria Decivilising The complete metamorphosis of the butterfly is a thoroughly adequate analogy for civilisation: the gradual progression from egg to slug to pupa to...
Nigeria Needs a Fearsome Electorate
Nigeria Needs a Fearsome Electorate Nigerians have, with habitual ease, allowed corrupt leaders and kakistocrats to enter positions of power and govern them. Either through...
Nigeria Needs Serious Politicians
Nigeria Needs Serious Politicians A photograph of Hon Evance Ivwurie, Delta State legislator, appeared on Facebook a couple of years ago that uncannily emitted a...
Uber License: A Nigerian Interest
The Uber License: A Nigerian Interest In the UK and the USA, the spectre of Nigerians achieving academic excellence in institutions of higher learning everywhere...
Is the Expected Revolution in Nigeria Possible?
Is the Expected Revolution in Nigeria Possible? Many talking points in Nigeria and diaspora focus ever more on the undeniable necessity for a ‘proper revolution’...
The Crisis of Leadership: Part 2
The Crisis of Leadership: Part 2...
Corruption Is Now Spiritual: Nigeria
Corruption Is Now Spiritual: Nigeria Anti-corruption is not a simple task to handle and it is not always straightforward. There are practical exhaustive steps to...
When I Last Saw Simon Hughes
When I Last Saw Simon Hughes Thursday, two weeks ago I had just come out of hospital after a two-week stay there. As a resident...
Nigerian Colonies: Niger Delta and Bornu
Nigerian Colonies: Niger Delta and Bornu As much as many may try, it is not possible to make sense of the current political realities of...
Why Evans the Kidnapper is King in Nigeria
Why Evans the Kidnapper is King in Nigeria A “billionaire” kidnapper, Evans, is now the new icon shining in the dull skies of Nigeria. One...
Banning History In Nigerian Schools
..Banning History In Nigerian Schools One may wonder who within the Nigerian Ministry of Education orchestrated the removal of the History [of West Africa] as...
How Democracy Fails Nigeria
How Democracy Fails Nigeria There has been too much optimism in what Nigerians widely tout as the ‘dividends of democracy’, i.e. the benign and enabling...
The Crisis of Leadership
The Crisis of Leadership – The Case of Nigeria Excerpt of a talk ‘The Crisis of Leadership – The Case of Nigeria’ given by...
Reflections on the May Elections
Reflections on the May Elections: The Relevance of Voters? Never underestimate the wisdom of the old saying, “what Britain needs is another good war”. Peace,...
Fulani Herdsmen in Abraka: Savagery Without Response?
Fulani Herdsmen in Abraka: Savagery Without Response? It is unfortunate that the ethnic group that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, belongs to is a...
“Coconut Head” Corruption
“Coconut Head” Corruption “There is no good name for a terrible disease” – Urhobo proverb. “The solution to Africa’s problems lie solely in Africa” – George...
Aso Rock Suspensions
Aso Rock Suspensions and the Game of WHOT When the suspensions of the Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir David Lawal, and the Director-General of...
Why Stage-Manage Cash Seizures?
Why Stage-Manage Cash Seizures? The current sensation in Nigeria is the mysterious discoveries and seizures of large sums of money (mostly foreign currency) found at...
Is Nigeria to Kill Another Environmentalist?
Is Nigeria to Kill Another Environmentalist? In this article, the context of the Government of Nigeria (GON) and its agencies killing a truth-seeking environmentalist are...
How Leadership Fails Nigeria
How Leadership Fails Nigeria Hope for good governance and good leadership in Nigeria seems to be an increasingly distant confidence. What happens if the leadership...
The Nigerian “Diaspora Paradox”
The Nigerian “Diaspora Paradox” One of the most challenging experiences a Nigerian [or other African nationals] in Diaspora will ever face is encountered within the...
Dr Joe Abah: Two Experts, Two Bureaucrats
Dr Joe Abah: Two Experts, Two Bureaucrats Dr Joe Abah, is the Director General of Bureau of Public Service Reforms and academic. In very casual...
Southern Kaduna Genocide: Surprise?
Southern Kaduna Genocide: Surprise? Southern Kaduna Massacres are the stuff Nigeria is made of. Before anyone dismisses such a claim, we have to examine the...
2017: “Saint Buhari” and More Economic Stagnation
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong...
Ibori: Innocence By Tribalism
Ibori: Innocence By Tribalism When I read the article titled ‘The Welcome Party for Ibori’ by Simon Kolawole, it was thought-provoking journalism considering the context of Delta...
Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning
Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning The man, Wole Soyinka is forgiving and commuting personally designed punitive sanctions once again. And in the most “magnanimous”...
Can Buhari Still Change Nigeria?
An interview of Grimot Nane on the immediate political future of Nigeria by freelancer Opey Sonto, September 15th 2016. SHOW MORE...
Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was A Pyrate, So What?
Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was A Pyrate, So What? There are few people on record who have been more critical of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in...
Hunger Is No Blessing
Hunger Is No Blessing While most Nigerians are adept at hiding and ignoring their nation’s hunger and poverty, the past year has not permitted the...
Can Buhari Win The Oil War?
Can Buhari Win The Oil War? The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) may not be a praiseworthy entity to many but their emergence and defiance have provided...
Fantastic Nigeria: Amaju Pinnick and the Olympic Football Saga
So many Nigerians (particularly those from Delta State) I have come across in the UK very recently appear to be the alter ego of Amaju...
Give Nigeria Back Its Stolen Funds in UK
A keynote lecture presented at Green Economics Institute 11th Annual Conference at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, England on the 29th of July 2016. The...
Nigerian Pretexts: Nuclear Power
Nigerian Pretexts: Nuclear Power Anytime you hear that a new great ‘developmental project’ is being planned and undertaken by the Government of Nigeria (GON), it...
Oshiomhole: Swiss Account Socialism
Oshiomhole: Swiss Account Socialism When the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari announced an increase in fuel price, it was steep. From N87 to N145 litre...
Thank Buhari – Hiding Corruption List
Thank Buhari – Hiding Corruption List Even though President Muhammadu Buhari was riding on a high crest of fame and popularity during the Anticorruption Summit...
Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation
Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation This article starts and concludes with the following sentence. “Governance and corruption are about social organisation on a scale that...
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria?
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria? Corruption occurs in every nation and at all levels in systemic and non-systemic forms. To compare corruption in Nigeria...
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? 2
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? 2 How will the Northerners and other Nigerians react to a political outcome like “The 17 Southern Governors Decide Fulani...
Blood Will Flow In the Streets
Blood Will Flow In the Streets “Empowerment” has a strange meaning in the Nigerian context. It is “the sharing of money” by politicians to clients,...
Nigeria: Loans For Unsolicited Proposals
Nigeria: Loans For Unsolicited Proposals How can a so-called modern nation be perennially managed since Independence by way of “unsolicited proposals”? President Muhammadu Buhari came...
Who Has Ever Seen The Nigerian Declaration of Independence?
Who Has Ever Seen The Nigerian Declaration of Independence? It may surprise most Nigerians that there are disturbing questions over who has ever seen and...
Senators Make Corruption Easier
Senators Make Corruption Easier Corruption is essentially a phenomenon that is highly secretive mostly because its perpetrators seek to avoid the consequences of detection, prosecution...
Loans Will Not Save Nigeria
Loans Will Not Save Nigeria: The Hidden Costs of Borrowing President Muhammadu Buhari won many die-hard supporters purely because he refused to play the game...
There Is No Fuel Scarcity Cartel in Nigeria
While there is a clearly identifiable oil production and exploration (E & P) ‘cartel’ constituted of mostly multinational corporations (with local clients) in the upstream...
Fuel Scarcity and Other Curses
If it is true that countries can be ‘cursed’, Nigeria’s most prominent curse will be constantly having “Good Leaders Surrounded By Strictly Evil Men”. It...