Governments to come must find ways of engaging the people of Nigeria to change Nigeria. It’s a factor substitution matter. “…government must not be afraid to embark on an activist fiscal policy to create jobs, build infrastructure and develop our industrial sector, as well as continue to improve agriculture…. This means government must spend money...

Give it to Nigerians. When someone cannot measure up in other areas of life, religion becomes the last refuge. Nigerians love their religions, perhaps a little more than they love their tribes. Their nation? Who cares about that? Who even needs a nation? We are fixing to start identifying ourselves by our tribes and religion...

In the past week – and perhaps still ongoing in some quarters – we have seen the descent of South Africa into another orgy of mindless and shameless looting. Most, if not all the looters I have seen, are black people, who sort of cast a dark pall of shame on our skin. Why are...

We must think outside the box. For some reason we have been unable to think beyond OA Lawal, that ‘Government’ textbook in secondary school that defined how everything every system of government should be… theoretically. We failed to read that book in the context of history, and we treated the study of ‘government’ like a...

I was graciously invited to a political meeting recently in Abuja. I hadn’t been to such in a while and of course, my political interest in Nigeria is waning, but not my interest in Nigeria herself. In such meetings where there are quite a number of individuals with heavy political credentials in their own rights,...

(TRANSCRIBED AND ABRIDGED BY TOPE FASUA) No one can ignore a gathering force that is reshaping the future of every member of this assembly; there has been nothing like it in history. When I think of the great scientific revolutions of the past; print, the steam engine, aviation, the atomic age, I think of new...

After the rain comes the sun. And by extension, after the sun comes the rain. Economists have always believed in the boom and bust cycle, sometimes as a routine behavior of economies, but sometimes due to the external factors, such as wars, diseases, epidemics, pandemics, or on the flip side, discoveries of new medicines, new...

I listened to the paramount ruler of Somolu today as he expressed support for Sunday Igboho, very eloquently, and as he foreclosed the idea of the Yorubas continuing with the Nigerian entity. The Oba called it a war of independence (ija’gbara in Yoruba language). But he launched into deep history (especially of Lisabi and the...

I have been listening to the ongoing condemnation of Nigerian medical doctors with increasing worry. Because of the grief involved, there is usually finality, totality and fatality involved in the complaints. ALL Nigerian medical doctors are blamed, and no one remembers to speak up for the many who may be doing well and trying their...