And whilst we are still on the subject of misbegotten federalism in Nigeria, it is meet to remember the saying that a people perish due to their leaders’ lack of vision. And how Nigerians have been perishing in droves, particularly on the Lagos-Ibadan Express! When this road was opened to public use in 1976, to great national applause, it is curious that nobody envisaged that given rising population and a rapidly expanding economy, we would be needing at least six of such thoroughfares forming a concentric hub to Lagos by 2020. The first time yours sincerely traversed this road in…

The scientific evidence increasingly indicates that the world may soon reach a point of no return regarding climate change. So, rather than worrying almost exclusively about economic and political inequality, rich-country citizens need to start thinking about how to deal with global energy inequality before it’s too late. While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity. And more than two billion have no clean cooking facilities, forcing them to use toxic alternatives such as animal waste as their main cooking fuel. Furthermore,…

Now that the Supreme Court has nullified the election of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Emeka Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State and declared the All Progressives Congress’ Hope Uzodinma the winner of the March 9, 2019 governorship election in the state, I owe it to readers of last week’s article to insist that God has nothing to do with the “prophets” that purportedly speak in his name. No God told Rev Fr Mbaka that Uzodinma would win at the court. More likely, this was what happened: To prepare the public for the electoral magic that would propel Uzodinma from…

On Friday, January 3rd this year, a drone attack by the United States killed a prominent Iranian military commander, Qassem Soleimani, and a few others on his entourage in Iraq. Soleimani had meant different things to different people. To the Iranian authorities and those that sided with its policies and politics, Soleimani was the quintessential patriot and nationalist helping to forge a common front to confront the “enemy”, chief of which is America. So, his death was a big blow and a sad loss. To those opposed to Iran’s kind of diplomacy in the Gulf, Soleimani was the moving spirit…