Buhari’s Endgame
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…
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…
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…
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…
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” posits management thinker, Peter Drucker. And that was one of the reasons that got the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to embark on a…
For close two decades now, successive Nigerian governments have been trying to remove the subsidy paid on the use of petrol by citizens. None has been able to muster the…
The strife is o’er, the battle done. But it was by no means easy. It took so much: tact, diplomacy, guts, deft footworks, prayers, yes, prayers, and so many other…