Nigeria @63, Can We Breathe?
Akì í mú ìbọn tetere. One does not hold a gun carelessly. (Always be careful in handling dangerous matters.) What about the hope What about the promise you made to the poor How you gwan joke How you gwan vote…
Tinubu’s First Ten Days Are Proverbs
Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. — John Keats, letter to George and Georgiana Keats The first ten minutes of your morning impact the…
Shame, Recapitulation, And The Tribunal Verdict
In Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, we are told the story of Abdulfattah Jandali who ran a Mediterranean restaurant in California. He was a Syrian immigrant, balding and intelligent, with fierce eyes and round, wire-rimmed glasses. After coming to America, Jandali…
A Nigerian Brand… Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi
Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi, the designer of the Nigeria flag (Green/White/Green), takes a bow from this world. God bless his soul as he rests in peace. I believe in Nigeria. I believe in its people and the diversities that define such…
Tinubu’s Ministers Need To Minister
A friend and I were texting today about how our mornings had not started well. She had lost her keys and subsequently missed both a dentist appointment and a work meeting. I had placed an important form in a “safe…
CJID and Changing the Face of Nigerian Journalism
“If only…” These two words paired together create one of the saddest phrases in the English language. In the end, more than anything else, we regret the small chances we didn’t take, the priceless opportunities we were too busy to…
Native Doctor And Palliatives. More On Voodoo Economics
The worst part of a society manipulated by politics is to see the poor defending the rich who are responsible for their poverty. There was one man called Femi in Ibadan, 98 year old Baba Femo, he was alleged to…
That N8,000 And Our Voodoo Economics
The longest road you’re going to have to walk is from here to here. In June the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining…
My Small Journey As PTA Chairmano
Being the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) Chairman in Nigeria and of course a Nigerian school with Nigerian parents and management can be a rewarding and challenging experience. It involves serving as a bridge between parents, teachers, and the school administration…
Hullabaloo of Nigeria’s Democratic Transitions
By 1983 the army had struck and aborted the 2nd republic but here we are, the 10th Assembly will soon resume, and it’s been 24 years of a hullabaloo democracy, many are not happy but we are making some form…
Bola Ahmed Tinubu; How Will It End?
Often people ask me why I write on certain topics and issues all the time, like bashing the government, and seeing very little good in people in government and government actions and my takes on education, health and power, conflict,…
