Opinion

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air ~ Job 28:20-21. Preamble: Times come when we are faced with tough decisions that could eventually define some important details of our future in our family life, career, ministry, business, etcetera. If we get it right in such instances, we could be reaching forth to stardom, but if we get it wrong, the consequences might be catastrophic. The bottom line is that real life isn't always straight-jacketed, and we must…
In late February 2025, a group of former African heads of state and finance experts gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, to sign the Cape Town Declaration – a bold call for a comprehensive debt relief program for African nations. This initiative, led by the African Leaders Debt Relief Initiative (ALDRI), comes at a time when Africa’s economy is shackled by a debt burden that is suffocating development, forcing governments to prioritize repayments to Western and private creditors over essential services like education, healthcare, and infrastructure. The numbers are staggering. As of 2021, Africa’s external debt had skyrocketed to $824…
During an interview on Channels TV on Monday, Wole Soyinka responded to critics who have been taunting him to “say something” about the present administration. In the interview, he said, “People should stop trying to work on my timetable for me. I had not swallowed an alarm clock. I don’t see why I should put my alarm on and say: ‘One year has passed, now, I must make an assessment’ if there is nothing I feel like talking about and if I am busy elsewhere.” Following his earlier statement when he visited Bola Tinubu at Aso Rock in 2023, that…
As part of its golden jubilee, the University of Calabar is said to have held a special convocation ceremony on Saturday, 22 March, during which it handed out honours to all manners of persons. The Chancellor of the University is Aminu Ado Bayero, the deposed emir of Kano. Present at that event also were Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria’s most prolific political litigant; as well as Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, a senior Justice of the Supreme Court, who delivered the leading decision in the recent judgment of that court concerning the withholding of the federal…
As we celebrate five years of the impactful leadership of the Most Reverend Henry Chukudum Ndukuba at the helm of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), it is fitting to reflect on a remarkable tenure that has revitalized the Church and inspired countless lives across the nation and beyond. His journey to the apex of the Church began on March 20, 2020, amid the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. What could have been a moment of despair turned into an opportunity for divine intervention as he assumed office in a low-key presentation service at the Cathedral Church of the…
In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration in 1919, Frederick Lugard described Nigeria as an “anomaly…. of a country with aggregate revenue practically equal to its needs, but divided into two by an arbitrary line of latitude.” While one portion was fiscally viable, he suggested, the other “was dependent on a grant paid by the British taxpayer.” Through the Amalgamation in 1914, Lugard created a Customs Union in which extraction could be sustained by administering mechanisms of fiscal…
If you are reading this, you probably know that I am a Bola Tinubu objector. I object to the Nigerian leader not principally on account of his politics or even his policies, but because we do not know who he really is. Even what we know about who he says he is, where he has been and what he has done are full of holes from Tinubu Square to Chicago, and back. That said, I am not automatically opposed to his emergency declaration on Rivers State last week. Every leader, including fathers and husbands, overreaches or makes mistakes. Maybe this…
At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me ~ Daniel 4:36. Preamble: Seeking the face of our great God and King affectionately is always a wise thing to do, even as we respectfully dine and wine in His court (Psalms 105:4). One very special thing about this is that we may thereby attract the great honour and the excellent majesty in His…
In 1986, I was appointed Special Adviser to Nigeria’s Minister of External Affairs, Bolaji Akinyemi. When I was offered the job, my boss at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Gabriel Olusanya, advised me to reject the offer. When I decided nevertheless to accept it, he gave me a bad security clearance. He said I was too close to my West Indian wife and would not be able to keep national secrets away from her. As a result, my appointment could not be confirmed. Paradoxically, Olusanya’s wife was also a West Indian. Moreover, the wife of Akinyemi, the Foreign…
Introduction: As I stand in the seventh decade of my life, I am reminded of the profound wisdom that comes with age. Having navigated the complexities of life, including marriage, I have come to realize that there is more to existence than the daily troubles and intrigues that can engulf us. It is from this vantage point that I write to my dear nieces and friends, who are currently struggling in their marriages, urging them to elevate their perspective and seek a more transformative path. The Quagmire of Marital Turbulence: Marriage, as beautiful and sacred as it is, can sometimes…
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