Category: Dragnet

The pain of a Redeemer-figure! He was the first patriot who saw the interplay of state and religion politics and wept for his people. It was not the conspiracy of the power hawks, but the ridicule of his primary beneficiaries that pained him most. We are lucky Jesus died for us; but we are guilty because He died in our Read more

25.03.2018 You can tell of a collapsed nation when a government becomes so proud of a hastily prepared and rehearsed script like Dapchi debut. However, one looks at it, it has made Nigeria dirtier. If Nigeria finally decays, greater part of the autopsy must read the APC while the PDP takes the remainder. From whatever projectile one views Nigeria, one Read more

So much has been said and written on the Fulani herdsmen; but nothing has been achieved. Every day, we wake up to the news of bloodshed caused by ever advancing bloodsucking migrants of Futa Djallon. Nigerian dailies already have templates where reporters only make few changes in location and number of casualties before breaking the news of the latest attack. Read more

Hardly do countries centralize their police; but hardly do countries parade large number of desperadoes as leaders like Nigeria does. Part of the ongoing discussion on Nigeria question is the clamour for state police owing to security challenges facing the country, from Fulani herdsmen attack, militancy, cultism, robbery, to kidnapping. In the fourth republic, Bola Tinubu at the height of Read more

In “Let the Funeral Begin”, I explained how Friedrich Nietzsche, poetically predicted the wind of disbelief that would change Europe. A mad man, he said, lit a lantern at noon and went into the public market looking for God: “Where is God?” Mocked by the townspeople in escalating series of exchanges, he finally threw the lantern to the ground. It Read more

How did it happen? El Rufai called proponents of restructuring opportunists and job seekers; but he suddenly chaired the APC Committee on Constitutional Reform that recommended restructuring. Suddenly, Muhammadu Buhari has given approval for six new railway projects notable among which is new standard gauge rail from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri passing through Enugu, Lafia, Makurdi, Gombe, with branches to Read more