Politics

Halt!! Don’t run away with the headline. It is cast as such deliberately. I am not against independent candidature as an expansion of our political space and a deepening of gravitas in that same space, if that is what it amounts to eventually. Anything that will lead to our politics actually developing the people and...

A very important issue came up at the maiden edition of a Unity Talk organised at Canaan Plaza, Lekki, by a group called Centre for Unity Advancement and Peace Development (CUAPD), led by George Ezeugo, on May 1, 2017. It was the occassion for discourse around a very important topic – the unity of Nigeria...

I choose to view Governor Yari’s statement that God is punishing his people for their sins – especially of fornication – by killing hordes of them (including children), with cerebrospinal meningitis, a little differently. I actually support him. 50% of the way. I support his admonition against fornication – and perhaps adultery and total moral...

One day I posted on my Facebook wall a commitment that we had in the budding political party that I lead, that if we are elected into central government in Nigeria, we shall not be buying any new car in the first two years at least. A number of people agreed and hailed the initiative,...

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 A CALL TO A NEW GENERATION 3 RENEWAL, RENAISSANCE, RESPECT 3 ABUNDANT NIGERIA 4 RUNNING GOVERNMENT AS A VIABLE ENTERPRISE 5 OUR YOUTH – NIGERIA’S GREATEST RESOURCE 5 WOMEN – OUR MOST PRODUCTIVE PARTNERS 6 DIASPORA (VOTING) 6 CIVIL/PUBLIC SERVICE 7 UNITY, ETHICS PEACE AND JUSTICE 8 TRANSPARENCY 8 DIVERSIFICATION/RESOURCE...

Should I, or shouldn’t I be shocked, reading from my ‘brother’ Simbo Olorunfemi, who made me the subject of his article published on the 22nd of December, 2016. Due to a bold and unprecedented step I took, to stop sitting around complaining, and to join the political fray and rally Nigerians around a cause, I...

I spent October 1 in the air, but on landing I was regaled everywhere I turned with the groundbreaking speech of ex-Governor Peter Obi. I also discovered upon searching the internet, that he had given almost the same talk on at least one other occasion – in another church. The fact that this one went...

“If your vision is one year, cultivate flowers… if it is ten, cultivate trees, but if your vision is eternity, cultivate people.” – Chinese adage I recall using this adage to commence an article many years ago. At that time, I was writing to Mallam Nasir El Rufai, who was then FCT Minister. I believed his...

As a former General in the Nigerian Army – one who attended the US Army War College alongside a number of local and foreign elite training programmes – President Muhammadu Buhari must be a strategist, right? But the strategy he has adopted for delivering on the economy now that he is a civilian president must...

My hope was that immediately after the new government came, they would ask for people who want to volunteer – work for free or next to nothing. The enthusiasm then was that high. I knew many people who supported the ‪#‎CHANGE who would have done that at the drop of a hat. Let us think...