Month: January 2024

In life, there are three people you must navigate carefully with; your family, your friends, and your classmates- these set of persons hold the ace to your triumph and defeat. Whatever you do, consider these people carefully. I will tell you why! All your aspirations are tied to this set of people, as such, it beholds you to be tactical in matters that relate with them. These persons know your growth process, as such, they feel very entitled to whatever you become. We have seen families truncate the rise of…

Arguably, the height of insecurity in Nigeria, begs for high level solutions. Meanwhile, this insecurity, according to some analysts, can be traced to recent increase in proliferation of arms in the country, and huge poverty problems resulting from failure of the Nigerian state’s economic and development policies. Successive governments since the birth of this present democracy in 1999 had only succeeded in sustaining the widening gap between the poor and the rich.   For instance, our reference essentially, speaks to the volume of manifestations and purveyors of insecurity as occasioned…

Nigeria is a country of one week, one issue; but insecurity, spreading over the nation like a cancer in a diseased body, remains constant. However, in some ways, a nation’s behaviour tends to reflect that of its leader’s character. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, is that kind of person, especially during the home run in the last presidential election. One week he was fighting off pretenders to the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket and the next he was fighting for his “health”. Throughout the campaign, he was either fighting…

Section 25 of the Nigerian Constitution is explicit on the differences between citizens and settlers. But then, there’s a saying in Ijesaland: _‘Gbogbo ìjèsà ni omo Owá, sùgbón bí alé bá lé, àwon omo Owá mo ara won.’_ Translated literally, it means _‘Kings have many children but, when the chips are down, each king knows his real children.’_ To put it succinctly therefore, when it comes to nativity, no settler in Lagos can claim to be an Igbo and a Lagosian at the same time. Not only that, while an…