March 2023

Why The Commonwealth Must Reinvent Or Perish

Why The Commonwealth Must Reinvent Or Perish

March 20, 2023 5:42 am

‘You cannot do the same thing and expect a different result’ Common as it sounds, this is the best advice to hand down to the Commonwealth because the association is fast becoming a fading shadow, a receding echo that was expected to be a vibrant sound, and an association that acts like an empty vessel, making only noise.

Let’s take a walk back to 1949 when former British colonies thought it was necessary to belong to an association where they could work together for their development and mutual benefits.

These countries became known as the Commonwealth countries; a voluntary association …

Oba Rilwan Akiolu and Seyi Tinubu

Oba Rilwan Akiolu: The Embodiment Of Bigotry In Politics

March 20, 2023 12:21 am

In a country as diverse as Nigeria, with over 250 ethnic groups and a population of over 200 million, it is crucial for leaders to foster unity and promote tolerance (National Population Commission, 2019). Unfortunately, Rilwan Babatunde Osuolale Aremu Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, has become a symbol of division and bigotry, particularly in the political landscape. His recent actions and words reveal an insidious pattern of endorsing and perpetuating prejudice against Ndigbo and other non-Yoruba ethnic groups in Lagos. This article examines the Oba’s role in the 2023 presidential and gubernatorial elections, referencing incidents and statements that exemplify his …

Diseases Africa Needs To Fully Return To Organic Farming

Diseases: Africa Needs To Fully Return To Organic Farming

March 16, 2023 5:56 am

The world over, Organic farming has been embraced as a better and healthier alternative to conventional farming, and there are many reasons for this widespread acceptance. First, organic agriculture has been proven to be the healthier and more ecologically friendly option. Free of the use of mineral fertilisers and synthetic pesticides, the products of organic farming are healthier and cleaner, as well as free of diseases and damaging side effects. The soil is also better off for it because all of the poisonous substances we have been putting into the soil in the name of modern farming have been hurting …

Why You Shouldn't Miss Apsley and NYLH's Orientation Event

Why You Shouldn’t Miss Apsley and NYLH’s Orientation Event

March 16, 2023 5:53 am

In every society or place, education has been proven to be the premise of progress. Without knowledge, action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. It is heartwarming to note that the much-talked-about orientation event is finally here and it won’t be nice not to remind the public about its importance and why they shouldn’t consider missing it for any reason.

Many analysts have rated the orientation program which is currently being put together by the New York Learning Hub and Apsley Business School as a game-changer and from the level of preparation that has gone into it, it …

Imo On Ajaero: Uzodinma's Delusion Is Beyond Redemption

Imo On Ajaero: Uzodinma’s Delusion Is Beyond Redemption

March 16, 2023 5:41 am

Nigeria has become the theatre of the absurd in recent times. It has become a bizarre place where governments at all levels have enthroned themselves as Lords and masters over their citizens who they consider slaves who must abide by their dictates or perish. At the subnational levels where Governors exist, the situation is a very regrettable one as these Governors who are in charge of their respective states have made it a duty to control everyone and everything without any form of limitations.

It is no longer news that apart from official State matters as clearly stated in the …

Africa Must Embrace African Solutions To Her Problems

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

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

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

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 …

'Fake Professor' Scandal Before You Crucify Onyeka Nwelue

‘Fake Professor’ Scandal: Before You Crucify Onyeka Nwelue

March 9, 2023 3:57 am

One thing humans have failed to learn is that there’s no gain in the fast-growing culture of cancellation and condemnation. It is sad that the nature of humans has now become one that gloats at the failings of others. As the saying goes, misery loves company, but the truth is, your misery won’t get better just because you pulled someone down into the depths of despair.

Celebrating the misfortune of others, mocking people in their state of despair, and luxuriating in the failures of fellow human beings is both toxic and worrisome, and in no way what is expected from …

Under The Fulani

Is Nigeria Perpetually Under The Fulani Oligarchy? 2

March 9, 2023 3:45 am

The one thing that is worse than being a slave is being a slave that loves his chains. For many decades, southern Nigerians have often through their actions and inactions, shown that they love their chains and don’t seem interested in welcoming any idea that bears some semblance of genuine freedom.

Despite the carefully-orchestrated scenarios created in recent times by the Fulani Oligarchy in Nigeria, the truth remains that to date, they still own Nigeria and are not prepared to give up an inch of their stronghold on the country for any reason.

The Lugardian contraption and geographical expression called …

Senatorial Loss Governor Ikpeazu's Defeat

Senatorial Loss: Governor Ikpeazu’s Defeat, Well-Deserved

March 9, 2023 3:37 am

Despite its widely acclaimed failures, the just concluded 2023 general elections in Nigeria will not go down in the history books for only negatives. One of the positives of the elections is the upheaval and dismantling of evil structures belonging to several criminals in the Nigerian political space. For a vast majority of right-thinking Nigerians, the 2023 election will certainly be hailed for retiring the likes of Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu to political oblivion.

Many Nigerian political actors have not come to the full realisation that power is actually a responsibility, therefore an individual vested with any form of …

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