“Kowa ya dade yaga dadau”. – Hausa (Whoever lives long, will see wonders).
Them belly full, but we hungry
A hungry mob is a angry mob
A rain will fall, but the dirt it tough
A pot a cook but...
Do Election Debates Really Matter?
Since the Vice Presidential debate on December 14 2018 between the candidates of selected five political parties, there have been continuous spin not only...
Make we carry Sango swear for Nigerians
The year don finish, so dem bin tell me one tory wey carry headache.
A father in one of those highbrow secondary schools that pay...
A Vote for Parliamentary System
In case you missed it, 71 reps have tabled a bill before the house proposing the adoption of a parliamentary system of government in...
2019: Opposition versus state institutions
By the time Nigeria conducts its elections in February and March next year, it will be almost 20 years since its current experiment with...
Nigeria…far away from Yola, and not close to Daura
One does not eat "I almost" in a stew. (What one missed narrowly, one cannot enjoy at all).
Some 11 years ago, I wrote asking,...
Predicting the 2019 presidential election
As the 2019 election draws close, we should expect an array of election entrepreneurs and predictors to become ubiquitous. A few days ago, the...
Peter Obi, South East Leaders and 2019
The news that South East Governors and other major political office holders stayed away from the installation of former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar...
Iya Kabiru and Other Stories
“Iya Kabiru must be the luckiest woman in Nigeria today”
“Who is that? I don’t know anybody so-called”
“You don’t know Iya Kabiru? But you know...
An ode for the Nigerian Soldier
In other countries the armed forces are respected for their sacrifice
In my country
(Its a million lighters in the sky tonight) we never remember the...
