The Anambra State Law clamping down on pretences of supposed ‘money ritual’, be it as oke-ite, ọgwụ-ego or aja-mmili by a dibịa, onye-oke-ọgwụ, eze-nwanyi, aka-na-asa-ụchụ, prophet, pastor etc, is in my respectful view constitutionally valid in the interest of public safety, public order, public morality and for the purpose of protecting the rights and freedom…
BY Chief Femi Adagunodo “No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country. However powerful a man may be, it is hard for him to make his contemporaries share feelings and ideas which run counter to the general run of their hopes and desires. ” – Alexis De Tocqueville,Democracy in…
Great leaders are disruptive, but the good ones play by the rules. Great leaders break existing rules and set new ones. Leaders move from being good to becoming great when they depart from the norm to chart a new path. Leaders are primarily called to do one of two things; either lead their organization, state…
Lagos during the holiday season is a whole different beast. It’s no longer the Lagos I knew as a journalist pounding the streets, covering the intrigues of politics, and navigating the city’s chaos. Now? Lagos has become a financial black hole, where every meal, ride, and nap demands a pocket as deep as the wells…
In my piece of last week, I made a tangential reference to the place of African magic in modern matters. It was in the discussion of the calamity that befell Nigeria a few days to Christmas. Ibadan, the capital city of the Yoruba, had taken a sizeable chunk of the tragedy. Thirty five persons, the…
Questions are the bedrock of understanding, and even the Bible admonishes us: “Ask, and it shall be given to you.” It is in this spirit of inquiry that I write this article. On Sunday, December 21, 2024, I had the privilege of visiting Ilogbo Ekiti in Ido-Osi Local Government Area. My mission was to gauge…
When you declare in a public interview that your ultimate goal and mission is the destruction of Nigeria, you have set yourself up for failure in the mind of many people who believe like you do that that the situation is Nigeria is pretty bad, but that incremental change is what Nigeria needs not destruction….
I was quite ecstatic about Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous slaying of the Goliath of the British establishment and emerging as the head of the Conservative Party and is now leader of the Opposition. I felt disappointed by the rather lukewarm reception of this great news especially in Nigeria and Africa. I drafted this opinion piece and…
It started with the indefatigable Areoye Oyebola, author, philosopher, activist and ace columnist and unrivalled investigative journalist of the golden era of the Daily Times. Or we may roll the tape back a little and call wordsmith Tony Momoh to confirm whether he cried at birth before Omo Oye or not, since these pen gurus…
PROTOCOLS It is such an honour and a privilege to have been asked to give this 80th birthday lecture in celebration of a most distinguished Nigerian, a progressive public intellectual, an elder statesman and a major subaltern in the struggle to return Nigeria to a genuinely democratic and restructured nation – father, teacher, activist, diplomat,…
