Opinion

The month of July is here again and with it comes some huge excitement for many Nigerians especially among the youths in the country. This excitement is not for something patriotic happening in the country. No, it is neither for a new law or legislation that would favour Nigerians and make things better for the dilapidating country. This excitement is for the entertainment abomination called Big Brother Naija or better known as BBNaija which resumed the live airing of its sixth season on the 25th of July, 2021.

Many previous editions of the international show which was culled out of …

Nigeria is one of the third-world countries that relies a lot on external aid and charity to survive. People like Bill Gates invest a chunk of their wealth to fund researches to help combat diseases in Africa. Successive Nigerian governments have continued to regard churches as charitable organisations while exempting them from paying taxes yet to the watchful eyes of the media, wealthy pastors plunder their followers and spend their spoils on self-indulgent existence. if all these happen in a country with more poor people than the population of many countries, then something is wrong and that is a fact.…

The church which promulgates Christianity is today filled with hypocrisy, greed, fraud, lies, pretensions, pedophilia, adultery, fornication, consumerism, and everything else that exemplifies the sorry state of Nigeria today. Thieves are offered the front seats in church; recognition is accorded based on the magnitude of one’s tithes and offerings; pastors now specify the exact amount of offerings they want, and members run over themselves to be the first to make the payments and ‘claim’ their blessings; the left hand is encouraged to see what the right hand gives so that the left-hand feels ‘powered up’ to out-donate the right hand; …

One of the topics that rarely makes the front burner of major discussion points in Nigeria particularly or Africa generally is the concept of organised religion. Despite its suffocating deficiencies and inadequacies, the adherents of Organised Religions have completely lost themselves in the fraudulent Abrahamic bondage which has given rise to nothing but a defective thought process, the truth of the matter is that only fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without questioning, dogmas, and doctrines ‘imposed’ upon them at childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were not properly formed enough to …

Nigeria presently is home to the highest-paid lawmakers in the world, however, when you juxtapose this humongous pay doled out to these legislators with the quality of service they offer to their constituents, it may lead you to tears provided you have a functional conscience. This set of legislators at their best offer nothing but plain ineptitude, gross underperformance, and sacrilegious looting of the common patrimony of their employers who voted them into power.

For the constituents of Owerri Federal Constituency, their situation appears compounded as they seem to have entered what many Nigerians term ‘one chance’ following the decision …

It is no news that most politicians all over the world are greedy, self-centred and power-drunk especially when they are put in a place of power. It is also a well-known fact that Nigerian politicians are leading the bandwagon of these politicians who know nothing else than being self-centred and practising cutthroat crookedness. A majority of these crooked politicians can be seen in the Southeastern part of Nigeria where greed and corruption hold sway among the political elite.

The average Igbo politician treats politics and leadership like it is a business venture, an avenue to generate capital and revenue for …

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CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS: Given that the legislature possess power to provide constituency services, an understanding of this function is instrumental in appraising constituency funds with respect to legislative oversight. While different nomenclatures of constituency funds exist across national cases (Pork Barrel in the United States, Constituency Development Fund in Zambia), a defining feature of its operation in Nigeria opens a vacuum to be filled to ensure probity in the management of the fund. One of the measures put in place by the government to facilitate development is constituency fund.

Constituency funds have evolved as a form of …

Nigeria is badly governed today because the citizenry who are supposed to hold their leaders accountable have failed in their duties; demanding gaccountability and transparency from public office holders most times is made to appear ‘criminal’ by the leaders who have been intoxicated by power. Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi, a sitting Nigerian Senator was called out recently on the imperativeness of serving the people on whose lacerated backs he has been standing to enjoy political power, rather than take the call with sobriety and a call for deeper reflection; he preferred to tow the ignoble path; the path synonymous with Nigerian …

Corruption is the single greatest obstacle preventing Nigeria from achieving her enormous potential, it is very safe to say that graft and senseless looting of public funds have now become institutionalised in Nigeria. One of the biggest participants in the present sleaze are Nigerian lawmakers who have sworn to be wicked, selfish, callous, and shameless about their quest to enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents and electorates.

The system of government Nigeria currently operates provides for three arms of government. While the legislative arm makes the law, the judiciary interprets and the executive implements and executes. Ostensibly going …

President Since the post-colonial era, impunity and astonishing acts of recklessness and gross ineptitude have, no doubt, become the trademarks of many African leaders. Although most African countries now operate democracy, however, in sharp contrast to democratic principles, most African leaders act in defiance of democratic engagements. The tragedy of the African continent is that most of her leaders, especially those who have little or nothing to offer the people, have continued to tow the ignoble path over and over again. Nigeria’s incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari has raised the bar of ineptitude, introducing new levels to sheer callousness that have …

Attention:

•International Criminal Court – ICC
•FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
•U.S. Mission Nigeria

Nigeria remains home to one of the most dreaded terrorist organisations globally known as Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati wal Jihad (People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad), also known as Boko Haram. Defeating terror groups or insurgents is never easy but it is even worse when you have a terror loving personality like President Muhammadu Buhari at the helm of affairs in Nigeria; a terrorist cannot end terrorism.

A terrorist is any person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, …

Burukutu is a Sorghum based alcoholic beverage often consumed as a traditional alternative to beer by people, with its ability to intoxicate people; the task to reveal the source of the stupidity of Nigerian politicians becomes easy, for the self-acclaimed, ‘Jagaban’, and his young replica in Kogi who is now regarded as the ‘The White Lion’, it’s important to give the brownish liquid some accolades. Indeed taking away rationality from the heads of abled-bodied men is not something every fermented alcohol can do. 

As the tenure of the inept administration or some would say ‘regime’ of President Muhammadu Buhari enters …