Is it not in our character as a people to kill one another in the name of politics? Is smuggling of narcotics and other outlawed drugs not in our character? Is it not in our character to defraud ourselves and other foreigners?
This is not so much a memoir but a rollicking history lesson told by Falola with all his might. If I was a dictator I would decree that every African must buy this book and read it. This boy soldier offered us a long peep into the rich dark corridor of a patriarchy…
Progressive-minded Nigerians realize that opportunism violates human dignity. Their ideological position is that the welfare of the nation is more important than individual acquisitiveness and personal aggrandizement…
I think that the moment we move away from discussing our social, economic and political issues and get into attacking personalities, that we will no longer be any different from those we have so conveniently blamed for our problems in Nigeria…
It is now a badge of honor to rain invectives at a man from whose palm they once ate and drank, a man on whose floor they once slept, a man whose behind they once kissed. How ironic that they all now make Orji Uzor Kalu look like a gallant soldier…
It is common these days to find a politician or civil servant who goes to church or the mosque everyday to pray to God or Allah, yet when they get to the office on Monday morning, all that is in their heads is how to misappropriate or embezzle money…
Image matters in everything, our appearance matters. Foreigners will make up their mind on Nigeria through those representing us outside our shore. We must make do with our first eleven…
Our Heavenly Father desires a much more intimate relationship with us His children. He longs for us to follow His footsteps and obey His instructions without having to raise objections or arguments that attempt to attack the veracity of His Word…
I don’t know whether Nigeria has reached the stage where everyone will not be satisfied until each of us becomes literally a local government; so that I can trot to Abuja to go and collect my allocation…
When the history of the Nigerian nation is recorded for the benefit of posterity, I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Chief Gani Fawehinmi will receive a positive and honourable mention in such chronicles…
Within the African continent, contagions of the intellect, mass hysterias and crippling urban legends are common. In one country after another, there are confounding tales of everything…