I was just informed a few minutes ago of the withdrawal of the appointment offered me as the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan. I had hitherto enjoyed every of the diatribes provoked by the appointment. I was told it was the most discussed issue in Nigeria […]
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Chief Patrick Ideh, 92 years Old former member, House of Representatives has said Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, who he described as his junior brother was being economical with the truth when he claimed recently that, “by the unwritten power zoning arrangement in the state, Delta North Senatorial District Should complete its two terms of eight […]
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You know I am a leader in the South West and at the National convention, I was elected as the leader of the Yoruba delegation. So, I am central to the Yoruba position. The Yoruba position is my position and it is the same position I canvassed in my book, ‘The way forward for Nigeria’ […]
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What does restructuring mean to you as a leader of the South-South geopolitical zone?======== Restructuring really is nothing but a re-introduction of true federalism, which was practised in the First Republic (1964-1966) when there was devolution of powers to the regions. There were three regions then: we had the Eastern Region, Western Region and the […]
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Your Excellency Sir, The attention of Igbo Ekunie Initiative, a coalition of professionals in Nigeria and the Diasporahas been drawn to an open letter written by so-called Arewa youths. As is typical of the “Sharia North” and their arrogance, bullying and internal colonialist (born to rule) attitude, the letter was filled with hate, lies, baseless […]
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Secret American diplomatic dispatches, spread over 21,000 pages, provide previously unknown information about the Nigerian Civil War Early in the morning of 1 July 1967, Nigeria’s young head of state, Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was feeling uneasy in his office at the Supreme Headquarters, Dodan Barracks in Lagos. The unease was a result of his being […]
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Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant. It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or […]
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop making provocative statements that distract and discourage Nigerians from facing task of fixing the economy and building Nigeria into a strong and virile nation. Reacting to a statement credited to Obasanjo, where the former president said his generation had failed the nation, […]
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Besides, it is not difficult to forecast that the work of government in Nigeria under a unitary constitution is bound to become unduly complex, inextricably tangled, extremely unwieldy and wasteful, and productive of disunity and discontent amongst the people. Unless we have veritable supermen at the helm of affairs, the administrative machinery would eventually disintegrate […]
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I was in a male-dominated gathering and as it is with men, the conversation was about politics and one man said and I paraphrase: “Why are the Niger Delta Avengers blowing up pipelines and the people from that area claiming that the oil belongs to their region. They have forgotten that there was a time […]
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