One of the shortest routes to a debilitating health condition, depression and sudden death is loneliness. The condition is exacerbated if the sufferer, in their 50s upward, live asexual for too long due to psychological and emotional aloofness propelled by feelings of forlornity. Unfortunately, not a few of such withdrawn, reclusive and introverted melancholic have ended their lives on sad note of suicide and sudden death as a result. We are social beings, wired and configured to socialize. Self ostracization is antithetical to communal lifestyle and interactive existential living. The spiraling figure of older adults who conditioned themselves to loneliness…

There is nothing better than due process and the rule of law for the stability of society. They are better than charism and even spartan lifestyle. Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is now officially the most corrupt in the history of modern Nigeria. This is the administration of a man who built all his reputation on anti-corruption. What happened? You will get the answer if you consider the story of the current Accountant General of the Federal, Ahmed Idris. At the early months of the Buhari administration, I was still the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).…

The late Sani Abacha, who was Nigeria’s Head of State from 1993 till 1998, did something that I will always respect him for. He ordered the execution of a small group of religious bigots and fanatics who orchestrated the beheading of a Christian trader from Benue state by the name of Gideon Akaluka, in Kano for allegedly "desecrating the Koran". The conspirators and orchestrators were 9 in number. A few days after Abacha gave his orders 8 of them were apprehended and summarily executed and only one managed to escape after which he was hidden away. Abacha thought that all…

Peace pleas directed at the Kremlin must be extended to Washington: its ‘mission creep’ tendencies and hostility towards Beijing – whose influence with Moscow might have made all the difference – threaten to extinguish hopes of a near-term diplomatic solution in Europe It’s just possible that a favourable diplomatic wind is forming that could alter the trajectory of the storm of war raging over Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe. Pushing this war out to sea might help clear the gathering clouds of world economic collapse. It could energise the humanitarian obligation to get Ukraine back on its feet and…