(Maestro with a Thousand Masks) I The last time we met Our laughter rang through the concert hallThe evening was young, with you readying up For a long expected show Your crowd was large and young and old But their ageless longingRode the crest of the wind as you Swung and swayed in your purple moments You sighted me from a distance Ploughed through the foldTo meet me in the threshold of Of a wide and busy door. A warm embrace, then our customary question: “When shall we have the collabo?”*A cryptic code over thirty years old Born when Songs…

On 27 February, Nigeria’s National Judicial Institute (NJI) in Abuja opened a continuing education course for judges. The opening featured an address by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, who invited the participants to eschew “unethical conduct that could expose the judiciary to ridicule.” Beneath his text, it seemed as if the Chief Justice desired to warn the participants to stay away from interfering with a brief that he has chosen to make entirely his own. Under his watch, judicial appointments in Nigeria have become corruptly farcical. The fortnight before this address, it emerged that the CJN’s daughter-in-law,…

Last week, we read how the signs are not looking good for a nation like ours that wants to be reckoned with internationally. We concluded by asking the federal government to look at ways to reduce the cost of governance and the unimaginable take-home pay of political leaders and redirect the excess towards production. And we emphasised that we must become a productive nation that eats, drives and wears what it produces. We also exhorted anyone genuinely interested in the welfare of workers, and of Nigerians, to proffer solutions that would boost our economy and strengthen our currency and not…

It's obvious that Ignorance competes with corruption in our arrested development since all major presidential candidates and the intelligentsia supported subsidies removal and floating the Naira that have turned out to be an economic disaster, because they overlooked the fact that every advanced industrialized economy was built on and continue to be stimulated with production and consumption subsidies. This reaffirms my November 22, 2022 article "2023: Neocolonial administrators or Economic revolutionaries” that the political class were just neocolonial administrators that couldn't uplift the masses from poverty. The coloniality of knowledge sources mentally enslaves and robs them of knowledge of how…