For those who do not know, “Mefy” is the alias of Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who completed his first term of five years in 2019 and was re-appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari for another term of five years. Ten years is a long time in a high profile position that is the cynosure if …

Even as I struggle amidst deep pains, sorrow and tribulations to scribble an elergy for departed activist, public intellectual, erudite scholar, accomplished journalist and professor of Political Science, Ayodele Samuel Olukotun, I’m nudged into some hallucination whether this brilliant and highly resourceful scholar, who was a regular face at many high profile conferences is really gone. Don’t blame me. Some …

Israel. The Christian Holy Land. There is no place in the world like it. A pilgrimage there is one of the greatest privilege every Chritian will ever experience. It is a journey of a lifetime and never-to-be-forgotten experience. Pilgrim must have waited for a rare opportunity to visit the Holy Land and walk where Jesus had walked. In short, setting …

This life is full of mishaps; its paths are never smooth and straight. On the contrary, they are paved with landmines and stumbling blocks that often trip even the very careful, and when that happens, the fall is usually painful, sometimes existentially cataclysmic. Where I come from, there is a proverb that, loosely transliterated, says that the grasscutter told her …

We have the Governments of Zamfara, Kogi, Kaduna States and the Supreme Court to thank for arresting the drift to anarchy in our country as a result of the poorly implemented and ill-timed new Naira and cashless policies of the Central Bank pf Nigeria (CBN) that have grounded socio-economic activities in the country. While the interim injunction of the Supreme …

Going by the current shenanigans around the corridors of Nigerian politics, it is obvious that some unseen hands are shaking the nation’s political jar. The black ants and the fire ants are at war. The jostling for power over who takes the No 1 seat in Aso Rock Villa after the crisis-ridden tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari is at a …

As we count down to the presidential election scheduled for 25 February, it will no longer serve any purpose for anyone to doubt whether President Muhammadu Buhari is standing with the All Progressives Congress (APC) standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The matter was settled in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, last Saturday when President Buhari declared emphatically that Asiwaju …

The amount of queueing Nigerians have been subjected to in the last couple of weeks is unprecedented. It is equally unbecoming. It’s almost like the country had gone back four decades. Fights have broken out in queues at bank facilities, filling stations, the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Local Government Council offices across the country. There …

Poet Laureate, Prof. Niyi Osundare’s latest intervention best captures the mood of the moment. Aptly touted “Incompetence weds corruption”, the first and the last statements fascinate me most. The first says: Pepeiye nigba ti oo m’owe/Ki lo be lu’odo se? Translated, “it is a pointed question to the Duck, wondering why, when it knew it could not swim, it still …

In a market that is becoming increasingly crowded by app browsers and consumers, TikTok is determined to make the most of its unique position as the most popular social media app among users of Gen-Z. With over 80 million registered users, it is a powerful force to be reckoned with. This comes as no surprise, as the platform has consistently …