Essays

The fever that is raging in Nigeria today is “wikileaks”. Yet as entertaining as these secret communications are the truth is that if you believe everything that you read in Julian Assange’s “leaks” then you will believe anything. I say this based on my own personal experiences. So far I have been fingered twice by […]

According to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. David Cameron, Nigeria is ”a dream waiting to happen”. How very gracious and kind of him it is to remind us of this but I cannot help believing that it was said tongue in cheek. It is rather like a wicked parent telling an abused

Yesterday’s killings in Norway are just unbelievable and horrific. 84 members of the Labour Youth Movement were shot to death in cold blood by a lone gunman on an island retreat and 7 people were killed by a bomb in Oslo. The perpetrator of both attacks is a right-wing 32 year-old christian fundamentalist conservative by

Let me make it abundantly clear right from the outset that I am not a supporter of Osama Bin Laden and I believe that he was a well-qualified candidate for the hottest part of hell. I despised the man and all that he stood for and I am one of those that are firmly of

All those exciteable, naive and impressionable people that came on my wall crucifying Dominique Strauss-Khan a few weeks ago should bury their heads in shame. The young west African chambermaid that alleged that he raped, sodomised and forced her to perform fellatio (oral sex) on him, according to the New York Times, apparantly has links

“Got home I couldn’t sleep and was on my phone debating as usual on Nigeria with Chief Femi Fani-Kayode who had long gone to bed insisting on his one man crusade of having hot leveraged discussions with the likes of Nasir El-Rufai of the progressive north possibly forgetting the entrenched emir factor who can be

It is no longer news that 150 distinguished leaders and elders from the northern region of Nigeria met last week and insisted that power must be zoned back to the north by next year and warned President Goodluck Jonathan and any other southern aspirant that may be interested in running for the Presidency not to

FROM FAVOUR AFOLABI TO CHIEF FEMI FANI-KAYODE. “I believe we can build the “PDP setting of the future,” today, the PDP remains the only truly represented party in every nook and cranny of Nigeria; we MUST build such a platform of like minded Nigerians to help in providing the kind of developmental leadership that we

“…We can’t keep feeding the philosphy of two Nigeria’s and expect to make progress. Consider this-how can you make progress with your brother when he is pulling in one direction and you the opposite direction? If the old guard have chosen that destiny for themselves, the youth ought to chart a new course. You shouldn’t

“AU leaders had an agreement that facilitated peace in Liberia. It’s shameful how Obasanjo threw Charles Taylor under the bus after pressure from the Europeans and America (not a signatory to the so-called UN court). For four years Iraq went through a wave of brutal ethnic cleansing, I don’t see the UN Court going after