I celebrate you,a living legend and uncommon African icon, Chief (Dr) Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Obasanjo ( OBJ), on your 87th birthday, which took place on March 5,2024.On paper, you are 87,having been bornbon on March 5,1937. But, you have maintained…
INTRODUCTION Error is becoming a norm in Nigeria. It has become our tradition. We have become a country of oddities; a country of one error per minute! We have become unshockable. Sadly, we spend the bulk of our time discussing…
INTRODUCTION In the last episode, we looked at how insecurity in Nigeria is endangered by a prostrate supine government. We then proffered some panaceas including true fiscal federalism. Today, we shall continue the Nigerian panacea vide true fiscal federalism after…
INTRODUCTION Error is becoming a norm in Nigeria. It has become our tradition. We have become a country of oddities; a country of one error per minute! We have become unshockable. Sadly, we spend the bulk of our time discussing…
AMID the current economic hardship, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mike Ozekhome, has warned that the naira may exchange for N4000 against the United States, US, dollar before the end of 2024. Ozekhome explained that there was nothing on…
NIGERIA NATION, THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (Part 1) THE PAST FROM LORD LUGARD TO BALEWA Nigeria as a nation became one in a visible entity in the year 1914 when Lord Fredrick Lugard amalgamated the Southern and Northern protectorates…
INTRODUCTION The last instalment of this series started off with the spectacular failure of former President Muhammadu Buhari, and moved on to lament about the disappearance of our societal values; continued with how Nigeria has borrowed her future, pays for…
INTRODUCTION In the last part of this treatise, we examined the weakness of transformational leadership after which we delved into transactional leadership and then moved on to the traits of good leadership. In today’s episode, we shall continue with our…
INTRODUCTION WE commenced our discussion of this topic with a poser on Nigeria: An artificial creation. This is followed by the segment on ‘independence’. We then attempted a diagnosis of our situation, followed by the segment sub titled: “A funny…
INTRODUCTION THE answer to this question “is this the Nigeria of our dreams”, is as obvious as it is disturbing. Sixty years after independence, it is to Nigeria’s eternal shame that she has failed woefully in applicable indices, on all…
