A joke on WhatsApp last week was about the abuse and insults heaped on Muhammadu Buhari, attacking him for everything wrong with the country but failing to answer an important question: who do you have that is better?
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I am however honoured and delighted to be able to share a few words about this great and profoundly good man who is not only one of the founding fathers of our nation but also a great patriot and nationalist and an outstanding elder statesman.
Guru Maharaj Ji, born Mohammed Ajirobatan Ibrahim, no doubt, is a household name and a Nigerian spiritual leader. He was born in Oyo State, resides in Ibadan and declared himself to be a “Living Perfect Master”, while some of his followers call him “Black Jesus”.
The past 58 years have offered great experiences, despite the odds of life and the unique circumstances of our country Nigeria. OUK has written his name in the sands of time. Remaining resilient, benevolent, and unequivocally relevant to his generation and the upcoming generation.
According to those who believe in this school of thought, a polygamist is not a man that marries more than one wife, but any man that has a wife at home and keeps a Mistress or Mistresses outside his matrimonial home. Among the Yoruba, polygamy is however not seen as anything bad, going by the agricultural advantage it brings to farmer-husbands who in the past years used their wives and children to cultivate their farms instead of hiring labourers.
Buhari, while attending Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster, instead of telling the world and those present that Nigerian youth have a lot of yet-to-be identified and untapped potentials, but some of them are handicapped because the environment is not conducive for them to realise their God giving talents, however shocked the world that most youths in his country prefer to do nothing because they feel Nigeria is an oil-rich nation.
My little research about the security apparatuses brought me to the Nigerian Intelligence Agency Director General’s appointment. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar is one of the most ridiculous appointments, perhaps, in the history of appointments in Nigeria, considering we are dealing with security here at this crucial time of insecurity, especially terrorism related cases, in our nation’s history.
According to Statista, a global statistics company, there are approximately 76.2 million Nigerian internet users as of 2017, an increase of nearly 50 per cent from the 2013 figure of 51.8 million. This presents a huge opportunity for growth in ICT as internet is the backbone on which Information Technology is built.
The girl’s father, a friend of Baruwa’s, had sent her to the lecturer for help to gain admission. Baruwa apparently had other plans: he allegedly seized the poor girl, overpowered her and raped her in his office.
I later developed it to a full length opinion article for a few online publications. This is a sequel to the earlier article. Now that President Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians that he would seek another term in office in the 2019 general elections, I make a new argument for him.
Ever since he lost the governorship election in Abia State to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Otti has found it increasingly difficult to adjust properly and regain composure. Apparently distempered, disoriented and divorced from polite communication, Otti has resorted to abusive and “gutter” language in characterizing Ngwa leaders.
About four years ago when over 200 Chibouk girls were forcefully abducted by the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group, Vanguard and one or two other newspapers had on their front pages posers and counters reminding the authorities every day about the plight of the unfortunate innocent girls. The posers have since stopped or may have been asked to be stopped by those who felt embarrassed on daily basis by this reminder.
This 35th annual Aminu Kano Memorial symposium and its theme: “Democratic Governance and the Imperatives of Party Ideology and Supremacy,” are indeed timely.
His Lordship Justice Binta Nyako at the Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory last Friday gave an…
The National Assembly is a dissembling institution. That assembly has the greatest collection of corrupt, unpatriotic, selfish, cantankerous, arrogant, deceitful, scheming, money-minded and unrepentant set of revisionists you could imagine in our crude form of public politicking
People must be reminded that corruption hurts the poor disproportionately due to diverting funds intend for development, undermining a government’s ability to provide basic services, feeding inequality and injustice and discouraging foreign investment and aid
In Nigeria, we call anybody who stands on a pulpit a man of God. Mechanic-turned pastor. Taylor-turned pastor. Bus driver-turned pastor. Musician-turned pastor. Olosho-turned pastor. Teacher-turned pastor. Barber-turned pastor
There is no question in my mind that Welby is Buhari’s new-found bride. As I said in an earlier contribution, it is clear to me that this “same-sex-marriage-loving” and confused English Archbishop deserves to be hung, drawn, quartered and burnt at the stake!
While millions are like Romeos beholding their Juliets, others on the flip-side, however, are like King Leah at his worst. It was as if they got blows to the solar plexus. Ouch! And they are wailing, kicking and screaming
This scenario is reminiscence of what happened in 1962 when America nearly went to war with Russia for placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. The stakes were high then and they’re high now. And somebody needs to back down.