I filed a petition with the Federal Capital Territory Police Command seeking redress for an injustice I suffered. The petition, dated March 23, 2021, detailed a case of unlawful confiscation of my properties and a criminal breach of trust The suspect had deceptively confiscated my Honda Accord car, a...
OPINION
I have read a series of responses to Chimamanda’s odious epistle to her master, President Joe Biden, the President of the United States. Given her professional orientation, she has now tried to make fiction of the 2023 Nigerian election with a view to making some cool wads to support...
Studies have shown that Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with almost 52% of its population in urban areas. This is because most of the country’s population is migrating to the cities. After all, the city is considered a place where you can get a better life...
Ramadan is a month synonymous with fasting in the Muslim world. In Islam, fasting is the practice of abstaining from food, drink, smoking, and sexual activity between dawn and nightfall. At present, the world over, adult Muslims of sound mental and physical health are observing it, being the fourth of...
In most human societies, visible phenomena are oftentimes credited or associated with the causes of other events. Then, the analysis will take off from there. But, most often, there are other unknown forces or factors that are not easily discernible but are sometimes the real causes, or, responsible for...
My focus is to investigate Nigeria as a Topology and as a System. As a Topology, I focus on how best to structure Nigeria in a way that could facilitate harmony among its subnationalities and preserve certain “good” properties, identities, or cultures that are universally associated with the country;...
Of all the cards that I carry around with me, none is a political party membership card. I have never and do not belong to any political party in Nigeria. Nor have I ever belonged to one or aspired to belong to any. My attitude to political party membership...
I listened to Senator Jarigbe Agom, of Cross River North a couple of days ago on the Arise TV Morning Show, where he opined that competence and capacity should dictate who becomes the Senate President, and not the region. He added that the Senate should go for the best...
The race for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly has reached its defining moments. Zones and other political interests in the country have been making their cases. However, concerned Nigerians need to weigh in and point to the greater need for experience and competence as very crucial factors...
By BATURE SAMSON – With barely two months to the proclamation of the 10th National Assembly, many contenders have emerged for the presiding positions in both chambers of the apex parliament. In the senate, at least seven lawmakers have indicated intention to contest for the position of Senate President,...
Not wanting to be left out of what shape, color, texture, content, and context should dominate in the the10th National Assembly, perhaps in his capacity as a prominent political elite and a former principal officer of the National Assembly to boot, the former senator from Cross River State Mr....
Like every new invention which comes with opportunities and challenges, the passage by the National Assembly and signing into law of the Petroleum Industry Bill into law about two years ago, by the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government, after about 17years of protracted back and forth debates, was...
“Gambling may be an exciting and enjoyable hobby, but it can turn into an addiction if you don’t know when to quit. Learn to see the warning symptoms.”> Introduction Gambling is one of the many pastimes people can engage in. However, it all started as a fun-filled side attraction...
No true freedom fighter can obfuscate voices of freedom and democracy and still claim to be one. Professor Wole Soyinka has pitched his tent with the oppressors and enemies of the people. If he has not, he must recant and retrace his steps, and that way regain perspective and...
Whenever a section of the society wants to embark on something new, it’ll first fly a kite. To sane minds, flying a kite is like testing the waters. If the society is gullible enough to ‘collectivise, objectify, even sacralise’ it, then, it becomes the norm. Unfortunately, societal norms tend...
Nigerian universities are dying. Schools are slowly and steadily becoming hotbeds of superstition and unreason. Irrational beliefs, scorched earth mindsets, and stone age ideas are taking over the campuses. The intellectual climate is moribund, a disconnect from the 21st-century zeitgeist. The culture of critical examination of issues is dying...
PREAMBLE First, let me seize this opportunity to congratulate Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his well-deserved victory in an unarguably about the most keenly contested presidential election in Nigeria’s history. For me personally, I feel fulfilled in that the incipient seed of this outcome was sown by my humble...
Judas Iscariot was the Apostle who betrayed and sold Jesus Christ to his enemies. The apparent reason for the betrayal was in exchange for 30 silver coins. During their Last Super, Jesus identified Judas as the disciple to betray him. The chief priests and scribes were already looking for...
Maiduguri, the capital and the largest city of Borno State, was founded in 1907 as a military outpost by the British colonial authority. It consists of two cities – Yerwa to the west and Old Maiduguri to the east. While Yerwa was founded in 1907 by Sheikh Abubakar Garbai...
The period between a general election and the swearing in of a successor administration ought to be filled with excited anticipation. It is usually a time of pleasant speculations on the new faces that will soon grace television screens and newspaper front pages. For the masses in a polity...