I attended a meeting recently at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Bwari, Abuja: the post-2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination review meeting chaired by the JAMB registrar, Professor Ish-aq Oloyede. Participants included Professor Oloyede and his technical team, field officers and other staff, all the Chief External Examiners who supervised the 2017 UTME, across Nigeria, mostly Vice-Chancellors of universities, and provosts/rectors of polytechnics and colleges of education, in addition to major stakeholders from civil society. The JAMB Registrar presented a detailed report on the conduct of the 2017 UTME, matters arising were identified and the meeting…

United Kingdom might yet have another general election within six months and most probably another overlapping referendum to finally clear-up this Brexit mess. That is the latitude & extent of political events that could cloud election results that are not very definitive of intentions, or leave an uncomfortable cliffhanger in real time. The problem most politicians face is lack of political will to correctly interpret voter intentions and deliver as expected. Ignoring electoral verdicts either by commission or omission is akin to arrogance of power. The first Brexit vote delivered an unambiguous verdict to leave the European Union. Rather than…

On Tuesday 13th of June, 2017, the great patriot and nation builder, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, turned 75 years old. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari, his former boss and military superior who joined the army years before General Abubakar did says he is 74. If I talk they will say I am a wailer! In any case, we have a President who told us last October 1st that (and I am using his exact words), “Investors from all over the world are falling over themselves to come and do business in Nigeria.” This is despite the fact that under Buhari, foreign investment…

So, a young man was given access to a microphone, on a radio station and then he started spreading a hate message which has resonated with a number of his fellow ethnic group. It makes you wonder, did the Igbo people have hate in their heart all along? Or was this young man responsible for digging deep into the consciousness of the Igbo people and unearthing deep rooted hate for their fellow human being which has been lying dormant there waiting for a special calling? In these times, many have refused to use their minds, their brains, their thinking faculty…