Opinion

Sambisa Forest is one of the several forests that constitute the ungoverned space in Nigerian geography. Yet it remained a subject of no interest to both the leadership and the citizenry until the media beamed searchlight thereupon at the twilight of the Boko Haram insurgency in the country. The space so characterised in the Nigerian context is a preponderance of forest reserves that have remained quite inaccessible to the Nigerian security operatives whose reluctance to storm the space has been identified as a product of their inefficiency, sub-standard weaponry, and conspiracy. This state of the security mind lends credence to…
Someone suggested a few weeks ago that Buhari’s irrationally wild popularity in the Muslim north deserves a doctoral dissertation to explain. I disagree. It’s simply a mix of amnesia, emotions, and Muslim clerical tyranny in the north. Nigerians generally have a predilection for sentimentalizing the supposed glories of bygone days. The past is always greener than the present, and the further a memory recedes into the past the more its putative glories are celebrated and romanticized. Add that to the fact that Buhari’s first coming was short-lived. But you can actually map the genealogy of the myth of Buhari’s “Mai…
To say the war against corruption is far from over is stating the obvious. Efforts by well meaning Nigerian citizens to own their own government, fight corruption and direct energy towards real developments may have been foiled by our own constitution and politicization of war against corruption. Our own political class may have swindled the process to suit their mercantile idea of politics, political rivalry and political relevance. It is no longer tenable to measure the war against corruption based on the unquestionable good intentions of President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) to internalize and institutionalize positive change. Instructive to intimate that…
Saturday, 08 April 2017 02:39

What next for Trump and Xi? - Rana Mitter

Donald Trump’s “America first” approach to US foreign policy would seem to create an opening for China to assert itself more forcefully on the world stage. But that assumes what remains to be seen: whether China’s leaders can reinvigorate their country’s decaying socioeconomic model. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s summit at Mar-a-Lago, the US president’s gilded Florida home, is the latest chapter in a long, often turbulent, but increasingly vital history of Sino-American engagement. In the World War II era, veterans of the Chinese Nationalist government, such as the financier T.V. Soong and the wife of the Nationalist leader, Madame…
The recent racist attack against some Nigerians in India has once again opened up important conversations about xenophobia and racism in Ghandi’s country as the country strives to play more important roles in global affairs with its increasing economic prosperity. Economic affluence, like an osmotic process, attracts people from weaker areas who come in search of all forms of self-improvement. The trigger for the recent wave of Afrophobia in the country is that a boy died of suspected drug overdose in Greater Noida, a satellite town off the Indian capital. Police detained five Nigerians after the boy’s parents accused them…
General Ishaya Bamaiyi, one of the closest collaborators to the late dictator, General Sani Abacha, has often benefitted from profitable mendacity. I remember him now on the night of June 9, 1996 when he came as the head of the Federal Military Government delegation to console the family of Kudirat, the brave wife of Chief Moshood Abiola. In the morning of that day, Kudirat was driving to Lagos when her car was accosted in front of the 7up Bottling Company factory in Ikeja. She was gunned down in broad daylight. The leader of the assassination team was later to allege…
It is a sign of the times, and a tragedy that the most popular Senator in the Nigerian National Assembly at this moment is not the person who has moved the most impactful motion, not a lawmaker who has proposed a thought-provoking bill, and certainly not any Senator who has given any impressive speech debating a matter of national importance. What we get, most of the time, in place of legislative responsibility, prudence, accountability and distinction is burlesque, farce, Japanese-styled Bungaku-Bunraku enactments, a dose of medieval commedia d’ell arte and an enormous supply of Yoruba Alarinjo with a bit of…
The two are very obviously street boys. One was asked to suggest solutions to the problems of the country. His answer was that “all our leaders should be given mass burial.” Another sat on a bus and wished the whole world perished that moment so that his own suffering would end. The one who wanted mass burial for the leaders was sure that they were the sole problem of Nigeria. He did not tell how he would bury, in a mass grave, leaders who are not dead and who are not ready to die soon. The two boys are in…
I signed off rudely for two weeks without any prior notice. I am sorry. I was protesting the imperviousness of the Nigerian State and its people. The protest was triggered off by a query by one lousy fellow who accused journalists, including me, of not writing adequately about the ills of society. When I asked him to state just one societal ill that had not been adequately reported in the media, he said: “why haven’t the media reported how much that was spent on keeping President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital for 50 days?” This was before Alhaji Lai…
In this interview with Ovie Okpare, leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, speaks on the Niger Delta crisis and other national issuesQ. Many Nigerians have criticised you for investing in other countries when you could have done that in the Niger Delta.Ans: I don’t believe in Nigeria. In December 2013, I was arrested based on the allegation that I was the leader of Boko Haram. How is Nigeria faring now under the All Progressives Congress. The fact that the President holds the people in so much disdain and cannot speak with the people who are supposed to…
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