An overview of elections in Nigeria since 1999 when democracy was restored to the country would readily reveal that winning elections through the ballot box has been herculean. From rancorous…
Is Olusegun Obasanjo a Nigerian or an African statesman? This is something that matters to him. To truly be either, he has to have inspired hope for the future of…
Not too long ago, I went with two gentlemen, one an estate agent and the other an associate, to formally meet the owner of an apartment we were considering using…
In the past one week, those who think they own Nigeria, and their cohorts, have been making magisterial pronouncements on the state of the nation. What they couldn’t get through…
It couldn’t get worse. Like many family feuds, offence festered as quickly as affection grew. In this case, though, there was some hope that the feuding parties had too much…
In 1985, a deceptive military administration held power. Its leader, General Ibrahim Babangida, took Nigeria through an economic excursion that delivered unbridled hardship, causing violent protests and other reactions that…
I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have…
It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak to a national emergency, but the circumstances are starkly dissimilar.…
Ask an average Nigerian patient, and he would tell you his country probably has one of the most dysfunctional health systems in the world. Lacking health facilities, any success recorded…
To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include a world faced with…