March 13, 2023

Africa Must Embrace African Solutions To Her Problems

March 13, 2023 5:44 am

In the past decades, African visionaries and progressive thinkers have not stopped calling out to African nations to break free from Western prescriptions to cure their problems. Sadly, Africa continues to swallow these Western pills even to overdosing, thereby creating new problems for themselves, while the continent continues to get sicker by the day.

Without mincing words, if Africa wants to achieve prosperity and gain an identity of its own, beyond being the former colonies that depend on their ex-colonial masters for survival, the time to wake up is now.

It continues to be shocking how Africa, being the second …

Why Honourable Desmond Elliot Is An Apology For A Lawmaker

March 13, 2023 5:27 am

Desmond Elliot’s foray into the Nigerian political scene cum public life has been lesson filled. It has clearly shown that age is no antidote to stupidity and that power, fame, and association all play useful roles in making a double-edged knife. Ever since the Nollywood icon delved into politics and became a Lawmaker representing the Surulere constituency at the Lagos House of Assembly, his life has witnessed nothing but its biggest swing from glory to gore and the drift doesn’t appear to be nearing a halt anytime soon.

A few days ago, Elliot was on the screens to apologise to …

Lagos Guber And The Needless ‘No-Mans Land’ Debate

March 13, 2023 5:12 am

Over the last two decades, gubernatorial elections in Lagos State have offered ethnic chauvinists the opportunity to engage in ethnocentric gymnastics to score cheap political points. At every election curve, candidates of major political parties are forced to pick a side and engage in needless debates on whether Lagos is a ‘no man’s land’ or a land belonging to the Yorubas.

This needless debate, has, on the flip side, continued to offer Gubernatorial candidates an avenue to escape scrutiny concerning their manifesto and what they have to offer the state, which, in turn, exposes the state to ill-prepared leadership and …

Tinubu, APC And The Futile Chase For Legitimacy

March 13, 2023 4:21 am

It is one thing to brazenly steal a mandate to lead people, and it is another to acquire legitimacy to complete the heist. Just as clearly stipulated in social contract philosophies, the agreement has to exist between the ruled and their rulers for governance to happen. It is now weeks since the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu committed one of the most organised electoral heists in Africa which saw him snatching an underwhelming victory in Nigeria’s Presidential elections.

Tinubu’s triumph at the crooked elections did not come as a startling surprise to keen observers who …