Politics

The big issue is that our politicians shut themselves in from the people, once elected or selected. Many commentators felt it was an odd thing to do to ‘stoop so low’. Yet Nigeria is where such one-on-one interaction is most desirable. The effect of such interaction is to give hope and confidence to the people...

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...