My people have a saying, “when you flog a child with the right hand (and it cries), you embrace him with the left (to console and comfort him)”. If you fail to do the first (when a child errs), you are an irresponsible father or parent and should you fail also in the second, you are a wicked and thoughtless …

It’s another edition of the World Anti-Corruption Day.  This hardly means anything in the official circles in government in the country with otherwise infallible elements crashing serially. It’s like we never knew what we perceived.  President Muhammadu Buhari has worsened this with the unprecedented self-indulgence in tortuous and contemptuous indifference to some incidents of corruption perpetrated by government functionaries of …

The current economic and sociopolitical environment in which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) possesses certain monopolistic, statutory powers in the creation and management of national currency and foreign reserves is characteristically pained, complicated and stressed. For instance, on the macroeconomic front, there is the unprecedented presence of virulent stagflation (the concurrent existence of unemployment and inflation) following import restrictions …

He contested the gubernatorial election of 9th January 1999 on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to be governor of the north eastern state of Adamawa and won handsomely. His closest rival was a seasoned politician, Bala Takaya, of what was then known as the All Peoples’ Party (APP). The party would subsequently tinker with its name to …

Dear Chairman It was about this time eight years ago, wasn’t it? I’m talking of course of when you took what was perhaps the most audacious, some may even say, most controversial political decision of your career at the time to run for the Presidency. You had talked and written about what was possible for over 20 years. Now, it …

When the new Osun State governor, the dancing-Senator now turned dancing-governor, Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke announced that the state Government House and property, including items such as vehicles, had been looted, I was not surprised. Pictures of how the Deputy Governor’s and other staff quarters were stripped to the bone later surfaced to confirm the allegation. Condemnable as this act …

Since Monday 3rd June 2019, Queen Elizabeth Iluyomade has been crying and praying to wake up from her nightmare. A call she received on her phone that evening shattered her peace as the caller broke the news of an okada accident in Ile Zik, near Ikeja, that took the life of her only daughter Modupe, married to Oluwaseun Olomo, 41, residing …

The media is not helping matters. Listen to radio stations across the land all you get is doom about the nation and calumny against candidates for office. The more doom they announce or allow on their airwaves the more audience they get and the more money they make. For them, it is all about cash. It’s not a surprise after …

There is a poignant expression in the Scriptures on the pervasive nature of depression: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing”? The New International Version of the Bible substituted the word “nations” for the “heathen”. With insights from semiotics and the guide by Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye, there is great wisdom in accessing core concepts …

Signs that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu will run a  government by proxy if elected, emerged at his outing at Chatham House, London on Monday. Tinubu, who has made a tradition of avoiding public speaking events in the run-up to the February 2023 elections, jettisoned the Arise Television‘s Townhall Meeting, organised for the …