What is a movement? A movement is one step ahead of motion, for there can be motion without movement but there can be no movement without motion. When people talk about structure in politics, what they try to infer is that you’ve got to have candidates contesting for all positions from the world level to the national. It includes also ownership of buildings, vehicles, and other physical objects that can be used...

President Joe Biden, on Thursday, September 1st, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia cried out to Americans for help as he analyzed events that redefined who the Americans truly are.  His action was in connection with the threat that the American people face from home from a group that he christened as the MAGA Republicans as well as the backlash from the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.  Asking for help in times...

Just one action taken by the Ninth Assembly of the legislative arm of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has made a tremendous impact in the political space of Nigeria, and this action is the passage of the new electoral law, a bill that was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari on February 25, 2022.  One of the lessons that can be learned from this action is that wherever there...

What makes human beings human and different from animals includes the ability not only to think constructively but also to adjust to situations and happenings around them with the required action necessary to bring about a change where and whenever it is desirable. Let me say admittedly that I belong to the generation that has failed our youths. Nonetheless, I believe I still have the audacity and what it takes to instruct...

The terrorists who have been on the necks of Nigerians killing both the military and the innocent civilians have threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State in a video widely circulated. In trying to make good their threats, they attacked the Presidential Guards on Monday, July 25th and killed 8 soldiers. Recall that these same terrorists attacked the Kuje prison on July 5th...

The agreement reached between Russia and Ukraine on creating a passage for Ukraine to export her grains to the rest of the world is instructive.  The agreement was reached on Friday, July 22, 2022 in Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, where the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres were in attendance as witnesses.  The implication of the agreement was the allowance granted Ukraine...

For centuries, there has been a divide between the developing and developed nations, the strong and the weak as well as the poor and the rich. Some countries had been seen as safer than the others, and to that effect, they are considered as what fits in for description as “safe havens.” With the reality on ground now in the world, there can only be safe heavens, which by implication suggests that...

Democracy without dividend is worse than autocracy, and it is a waste of both human and capital resources. The situation in Nigeria is obvious for even an insane person to perceive. There is nothing that is working for the masses. All that is left is deceit and hypocrisy of the highest order. Democracy as a system of government regardless of where it is imported from or what country is the custodian or...

It’s now a little bit more than 30 years ago when as a student at the Lagos State University (LASU), I participated in a national essay competition organized by the Forum for the Advancement of Nigeria (FAN), Philadelphia USA. The theme of the essay was Nigeria of My Dream. I won a certificate and this was published in the University’s bulletin, and that was the same year that I graduated from the...

The news of the gruesome murder of more than 100 worshippers in the town of Owo and in Ondo State of Nigeria is unprecedented going by how dastardly and barbaric the incident was. The gunmen invaded the church and shot sporadically and used explosives against the worshippers who gathered at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, to mark the Pentecost day. As heart-wrenching and devastating the incident is, reacting to this magnitude of...