Now, there is COVID-19 and hunger
In 2014, on a sunny Saturday, I was on a 20 minutes break from a first paper during a PGDE examination, and while revising for the second paper, I encountered parents of a 6 months old who didn’t want to…
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What can Buhari do differently in his second coming?
In 2015, there were much high hopes from a lot of Nigerians especially common Nigerians when Muhammadu Buhari for the first time emerged the president of Nigeria. He contested as the presidential flag bearer for the APC – a new…
What style of democracy can work for Nigeria?
Nigeria is multi in many ways. Multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-language, multi-state, multi-region, multi-culture, multi-party. And multi problems that arise from all these multis. What is worse is that it seems to generate a cycle of bad leadership that keep Nigerians in…
A Country so cruel to its Soldiers
Permit me to take a guess: if you have a son or a daughter who is interested in holding a job as a Nigerian soldier in this present Nigeria, and as a father or mother who is duly aware of…
The choice between two tested and failed men and a Third Force
On Saturday, tomorrow February 16, , Nigerians are going to polling centers across the country to cast their votes to either re-elect a sitting president Muhammudu Buhari or elect a new one – a former vice president Atiku Abubakar fronting…
It is the same old story; Boko Haram is still breathing
A key campaign promise of the APC party in their pursuit for presidential power during the electioneering period of 2015 elections was that they would wipe out completely from Nigeria the existence of Boko Haram – the terrorist group that…
The many things that can kill you in Nigeria
A line in V for Vendatta, the 2005 movie set around the themes of supremacism, neo fascism and revolutionist freedom visualizing an alternative future in the United Kingdom which I quite like says people should not be afraid of governments,…
What has really changed in Nigeria?
I suppose you know this already but let me say it still; this 2018, Nigeria as the 6th largest exporter of crude oil in the world is still generating revenue from the sales of crude oil. Last year, we earned…
Abuja is the city where children beg at night
For Mohammed Mohammadu who wants to be a Custom officer, his parents do not know whether he is alive or dead. And he seems not understand what that means. Mohammed is a nine-year-old who makes his daily living by standing…
Connected Development is changing how people live in African rural communities
To be specific, I only got to know about Connected Development, also known as CODE last quarter of 2017. And it was on Facebook I came across them – and the kind of work they do – and have been…
