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...
…the local governments and states are unable to self-sustain not because the federal government is taking too much from us all (and indeed they are), but because rather than all of us being responsible to our commonwealth, and building this, we are more interested in eating till we drop, while locked in competition with each...
I have just undertaken a pit-stop visit of three state capitals and passed through several villages in the South East of Nigeria (at least the ones en route). It wasn’t planned as it was just a working visit for two days. But I landed in Enugu State, presented a paper in Awka, Anambra State, and...
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...
Nigeria is certainly not the most diverse country in the world, neither is it the most populated. By toeing the line of disintegration and talking it down, we are only confirming our own incompetence and inability to think long-term or self-govern. We are justifying racists who say we aren’t. I recently wrote about Nigeria’s wasteful...
Inspector General Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, I support your work; but beyond your Head Quarters, your men have become hardened criminals. Many work hand in glove with kidnappers; others kidnap themselves. This is not how a country should be. Please find a way and shake up the entire Lagos command. This is beyond the pale. On...
On the 29th of March 2017 I woke up at 4am Nigerian time in Accra, Ghana and started to get ready for my return to Nigeria. I had to take a flight from Lagos to Kaduna and then by road to Abuja. Upon getting to the dreaded Murtala Muhammad Airport, I found out I had...
I intend to report what I told the audience at the Young Achievers Summit at Oriental Hotel Lagos held on Saturday the 29th of July, 2017. But first some preambles. The YAS is organized by ‘my man before’, Victor Owkuadi, who has abandoned us smaller mortals to Abuja, for a more forthcoming Lagos where things...
Not only are those who have not studied the areas they built flooded houses tending towards dinosaur-ship, so seems our ship of state. Mind you, learning at the same pace as the environment changes doesn’t help either. You must be ahead of the curve to be safe! For now, we are not safe. Well, I...
About a month ago I was at Ahmadu Bello University. And I got a shock. I had been to a number of universities across the length and breadth of Nigeria in the last couple of years. I enjoy interacting with these young students because they remind me of my time in school three decades ago....
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