Black does not mean stupid
Unthinking, lacking focus and direction
Black does not mean undisciplined
Drifting, lazy, indolent
Lacking vision or self-control
Black does not mean unrestrained and wanton
Fictions, Prayers and Banners
Our flag shall be a symbol
That truth and justice reign?
Truth? Justice? Reign?
In peace…? Peace?
A banner without stain?
The stains of war, death, blood
Of graft and injustice
Nepotism, evil, inequality, inequity
Poverty and human suffering
The banner is badly stained.
Tinubu defies the odds
Tinubu has won a huge battle, but the war, Atiku Abubakar versus Bola Tinubu lies ahead.
Nigeria’s history of programmed crises
Till date Nigeria continues to reflect Britain’s sub-optimal vision for Nigeria.
When as a postgraduate student of law at the University of Lagos in the late 1980s I had to select four subjects for my LLM classes, I chose Secured Credit Transactions, Comparative Company Law and International Economic Law.
South-West in disarray
What is wrong with us? Even if it is a curse, can’t we awake from our bewitchment and deliver ourselves from captivity?
For us in what I prefer to refer to as Western Nigeria, but which is now colloquially spoken of as “South-West” Nigeria in the context of the so-called “six geo-political zones,” it seems that our case is now appearing to be like that of the biblical Job – “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me” (Job 3: 25 KJV).
Osinbajo in Remo
From the turnout and enthusiasm at the event, it does appear Remo is excited about and supportive of the prospects of an Osinbajo Presidency!
Opeyemi Agbaje: The journey to 2023
As 2021 rounds up, it is already very evident that 2022 may be almost entirely devoted to the battle to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The Buhari government is faced with troubling policy and governance challenges – a worsening security context with more-or-less a breakdown of law and order in the North-West, North-East and many parts of the North-Central as terrorists and insurrectionists