The major fact to note is that the dethronement of Sanusi is political. Sanusi was appointed Emir of Kano just before the former governor of Kano Rabiu Kwankwaso left office in 2015. Sanusi, a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has shown to be a man of his own whims, an independent actor with a capacity for self-criticism. Certainly, after his tenure as CBN governor, where he was forced by the former president,...
The Wuhan Coronavirus has become a worldwide epidemic. The European country of Italy has been the most ravaged by the virus, in Europe. Already, over 360 people have died of the infection in Italy. Only on Sunday alone, a total of 133 people died of the virus infection in Italy. Although, there are about 7,000 infections in Italy alone, so far. In the United Kingdom, there are about 67 new cases of coronavirus infection,...
Nigeria’s effort to rapidly identify and contain the spread of the index case of COVID-19 may have been successful – with no new case as at March 2 – but as the disease spreads to over fifty countries, the global economy is panicking and some experts say this is not looking good for many countries, including Nigeria. It is a typical case of ‘when China sneezes, global business catches a cold.’ The wake of coronavirus...
Successful presidential candidates are mythmakers. They don’t just tell a story. They tell a story that helps people make meaning out of the current moment; that divides people into heroes and villains; that names a central challenge and explains why they are the perfect person to meet it. In 2016 Donald Trump told a successful myth: The coastal elites are greedy, stupid people who have mismanaged the country, undermined our values and changed the face...
Brothers and sisters, I can tell you that our country is so deep in the shithole (no apologies to President Trump) that it requires drastic measures to pull her out. We all know Nigeria is a beautiful country with abundant natural and human resources, the most populous Black nation on planet Earth. Before I indulge in the time-honored tradition of open letter writing, I must pay my deep respects and obeisance to several eminent Nigerians...
A few days ago my daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease. In our time of need, my husband and I wanted to rely on our family for support but that option was suddenly ripped away from us. And it’s all because we are Nigerian. Last Friday, the Trump administration expanded its 2017 travel ban — which restricted immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries — to include six more countries, including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation....
Every once in a long while a single act of conscience can repair the nation’s soul. In the dark days of Joe McCarthy’s terror, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine spoke out against her fellow Republican when nobody else would. During Watergate, Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee uttered the immortal words — of a president from his own party — “What did the president know and when did he know it?” Now Sen. Mitt Romney...
There cannot be silence anywhere dog is made to feast on leopard’s tail. There was a civil war in Nigeria during which Chinua Achebe wrote ‘How the Leopard got its claws.’ It is a story of dog usurping the kingship of leopard because dog is blessed with teeth and claws while leopard lacked both. It is also a story of setbacks and comebacks; of leopard recreating himself – teeth, claws and more – and reclaiming...
The coalition of Northern Youths group under the auspices of the Arewa Youth Assembly recently urged their kinsmen to be “magnanimous enough” and give the southern part of the country, especially the South-South geopolitical zone, the chance to produce the President of Nigeria in 2023. The group spoke through its leader, Mohammed Danlami at a press conference held at the Arewa House, Kaduna. He remarked that in addition to shifting the 2023 presidency to the...
A full and timely investigation into the death of the Nnewi Catholic priest must be conducted. On November 16, 2019, Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Edmund Amobi Nwagbala, the parish priest of St. Peter’s Claver Catholic Church, Nnewichi, Nnewi, Anambra State, died. Today, almost two month later, we don’t know the exact cause of his death or any real details of that fateful morning and the controversies surrounding his mysterious death and the Nnewi Catholic Diocese’s...
