By Ayo Akinfe
Across Nigeria today, insecurity is a booming industry in which private armies of robbers, kidnappers, terrorists, hoodlums, etc, have taken over the country. So lucrative is this trade that it is the fastest growing sector of the economy
One thing I find particularly frightening is the ethnic dimension of this...
Ayo Akinfe
I am surprised that despite the hundreds of thousands of clergymen and millions of churches and mosques littered across Nigeria, nobody has been able to see the parallels between our current situation and the case of Cain and Abel. We should be analysing this interesting biblical myth and use it as a template to find...
FORMER senate president Senator Pius Anyim has declared that he will run for Nigeria's presidency in 2023 whether his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) zones the position to the southeast geo-political zone or not.
Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a gentleman's agreement that the presidency will...
Ayo Akinfe
We are into Black History Month but alas, what does it stand for? Surely the whole idea is to bring about equity and justice for the black man woman
When you look at our history and seen how we have been canon fodder for the rest of humanity, I can only shudder. Slavery, colonialism, raw material plunder, export...
Ayo Akinfe
In life, very little happens without precedence. What we are seeing in the UK today is a classic case of xenophobic fears coming back to bite a people in the behind. As ever, the chickens always come home to roost
Brexit was nothing but hatred for one’s fellow man disguised as “The right to self determination.”...
FULANI socio-cultural association Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has slammed Katsina State's Governor Aminu Masari calling him a drunkard for suggesting that most bandits operating in Nigeria are of Fulani ethnic stock.
Of late, Nigeria has been reeling from chronic insecurity with Fulani herdsmen, kidnappers, bandits and...
Today is May 9 and on this day in 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender ending World War Two. Can President Buhari please start work on the signing of a comprehensive peace agree on May 9 2022 that will include the following:
Ayo Akinfe
Boko Haram and all its splinter groups laying down their arms
The Miyetti Allah...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) By 2023 we will elect a president who will stop this division of Nigerians along ethnic lines. President Buhari is unique even by Fulani standards as neither presidents Shagari or Yar’Adua were this nepotistic
(2) By 2025, Boko Haram would have been eliminated as what is currently lacking is the political will to...
NIGERIA'S man opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the dismissal of communications minister Sheikh Isa Pantami over statements he made in the past in support of extremist Islamic groups.
Over recent weeks, Sheikh Pantami has come under fire after it emerged that he was on the Federal Bureau of...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As we try to figure a way around Nigeria’s current debacle, can we please learn from history and get to understand that sometimes people suggest treatments to a problem that are 10 times worse than the original ailment
(2) Africa was easily colonised and cantonized by the European powers because she was...
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