Opinion

To All My Fellow Nigerians – Good day and I hope this message finds you safe during this unprecedented Coronavirus pandemic. Nigerians have faced many harrowing challenges since our country’s inception, not the least of which have included the Nigerian Civil War, Boko Haram, and the high mortality rate of …

turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Before COVID-19 broke, the apprehension in Lagos surrounded the prediction that most of Year 2020 would witness heavy rains – and that they would be really, really heavy. What it automatically means is that Lagos, ever prone to flooding, would experience the “Mother of all flooding” – …

Sometimes it takes crisis to reveal gaps and discontinuities. The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, currently ravaging the world has revealed how leadership can be challenged by the unexpected and the need to innovate “ahead of the curve.” The crisis also heightens the need for followers to re-evaluate prevailing models …

I was very elated and proud when Mr. President made the speech during the 2020 annual budget submission to the National Assembly. Months ago, I wrote an article in my weekly column titled; ‘A hungry man is an angry man’. In it, I requested the office of the President or …

turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 It is common knowledge that the JOINT ADMISSIONS AND MATRICULATION BOARD (JAMB) operations have improved drastically and dramatically since Prof. Ishaq Oloyede assumed the mantle of leadership. Improvements in administration – transparency, accountability and openness – has translated into zero-level tolerance for corruption, reduced examination charges, …

turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Who ever imagined that we can all be treated as equal and same-same, as they say? Philosophers of all ages propounded the theory; wars and revolutions were made to actualize it; and the law, in fact, espouses it but, in real terms it is the views …

For twenty years running, our health sector funding has declined. In many other cases, budgets are padded and looted by lawmakers and public officials with impunity. Some states just looked away in funding health and education sectors preferring instead to be erecting white elephants. Our political elite lived in a …

There is need to revisit the issue of the fragile nature of the Nigerian economy. For sometime now, the economy has been seating on the edge with so many delicate issues begging for attention. We recollected late last year that we tried to examine, review and analyze the 2020 Nigeria …

turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Elites are powerful, very powerful; especially so the political elites otherwise also called the power elites. Philosophers, political theorists and thinkers posit that the history of all societies is the history of elite rule. Elections do not abolish elites but merely replace one set with another. …

The decision by the Dr Ahmad Lawan-led Ninth Senate to set up a 56-member Constitution Review Committee seems to have raised more questions than it answered. The Committee, headed by the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, consists of eight principal officers who are to serve as a steering …

turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Seeing the fate that last week befell the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, must thank his stars for escaping a similar treatment weeks’ ago. The suspension for six months slapped on him by the Osun State council of …

Dear Sam, I take a cue from your missive titled *“Adams or Leave?”* published in your usual column in the Nation Newspaper of 9 Monday 2020. Permit me to declare my interest here: I am a friend and an aide to Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, Governor of Ekiti State and …

There is no better way of introducing Odia Ofeimun than pointedly stressing that “Odia Ofeimun is Odia Ofeimun!” Enough said. Poet, publisher, editor, activist, polemicist, mentor, politician, columnist, factory worker, writer, dance-drama exponent, public intellectual, critic etc, Odia Ofeimun has packed uncountable lifetimes into one tumultuous lifespan. Born on March …

– A Keynote Speech By Prof. Greg I. Ibe, PHD, OFR, Enyi Abia At the Great Debate and Dialogue for National Unity organized by Igbo Leadership Development Foundation in collaboration with Gregory University Uturu, World Igbo Summit Group, Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies, New Generation Leadership Foundation at …

turnpot@atgmail.com 0705 263 1058 He who must destroy others to succeed must know that destruction awaits him at the gate of his (own) success – Nino Brown. Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, Chief Olabode George, was recently reported as saying he would contest the 2023 presidency so as to stop …

I mourned within me late last year when I read of the death of Dr Ore Falomo, late Chief M.K.O Abiola’s personal physician. That was because I had a secret to share with him I would never again be able to. But concerning this demise now, I will not keep …

ONE of the big promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari in his campaign for Nigeria’s presidency is the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project. The project entails the “engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning” of 614-kilometers gas pipeline and stations, traversing the states of Kogi, Niger, FCT, Kaduna and Kano. It is …

turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Last Saturday, February 29, 2020, activists from all walks of life gathered at the International Secretariat of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC) located at the Magodo area of Lagos to deliberate on matters of interest to the Yoruba nation. Delegates came from Venezuela, the USA, the …

  There seems to be no end to the controversy generated by the January 14, 2020 Imo State guber Supreme Court judgment. This is as a result of reliable feelers we are getting on the March 2, 2020 Imo State guber Supreme Court review. A source close to the All …

turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 The South-west security outfit code-named “Amotekun” may have survived threatened abortion, widely-expected still-birth, vicious Fulani attacks and scantily-concealed bellicosity of the Federal Government; it may appear to be well and alive, loved by the mass of Yoruba people home and abroad; and supported by other conscionable …

  turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 …and his bishoprick (office or charge) let another take – Acts 1: 20. The jury is in: A preponderant number of Nigerians want the Service chiefs dismissed from office. When we say “Service chiefs”, we mean the Chief of Army Staff; Chief of Air Staff; …

Dr. Carter G. Woodson conceived and announced Negro HistoryWeek in 1926, which later gave birth to Black History Month. Dr. Woodson believed that proper understanding of African American history would promote pride within the Black community and foster greater respect for it in the United States. Through Black History Month, …

  turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Can two walked together, except they be agreed? – Amos 3:3 Four theories swirl around Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and his regime. The first is that some years back, on one of his numerous and long-drawn trips to London for medical treatment, Buhari died and his …

turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. – John Donne. Retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was at it again recently with his nebulous arithmetic of 97% and 5%! …

Nigerians must with one voice put this critical question to the seven-member Supreme Court panel of judges that sacked Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State and planted Senator Hope Uzodinma as his replacement: Distinguished as you all are, would you have dared to pronounce this same perversity if any party …