Criticisms and condemnation by people and the FG has trailed the recent declaration by UNICEF that our nation is among the countries with the worst women mortality rates (2nd) with one woman dying in every ten who tries to give birth. Maybe you do not know, that means we are second after war-torn Congo, a [...]

Right before millions as President Obama took the stage to take the oath, I saw the anticipation in the eyes of the Americans, CNN showed not just pictures but the passion of the people, not just for the president, but also for the nation, not only the nation but for the belief that we can [...]

As we continue to negotiate the journey towards the rebuilding of our nation, there are questions we need to begin to ask ourselves. Truth, the message that the nation is in dire need of a radical transformation is no more a selling point. Gone are the days when people who can talk about the problems [...]

I could not hide the wonder on my face when I saw the pictures of the transformation of the Oshodi metropolis of Lagos State. Interestingly, I had previously gone there to take a picture for a book I was writing on Nigeria. Comparing the two pictures now, I could not imagine that the Oshodi where [...]

Happy New Year. As we left church and I drove towards home yesterday, I thought about why it would be a happy new year, if there is not a happy new you (me). The timing of the New Year was perfect for a call for a new system of thought. If you have been affected [...]

My weekend and movement into this week has been explosive. I wrote this in an hotel room close to VGC where I was meeting a few of the best minds among the emerging new generation of leaders in Nigeria. We were there to fashion out how Nigeria will, can and must be the best place [...]

Having worked for a while with NAFDAC as an intern, I had waited patiently till after her inauguration to name her as my December role model of the month. I had hoped silently that she will deal with the situation in the health sector, a ministry that has not had a minister in over eight [...]

It was not an easy thing to bring back this enigma from the dead, meanwhile He ain’t dead. Some people just have refused to remain dead given the way they impacted the earth like a mighty colossus. His historic speech given 45 years ago on the 28th of August 1963 was made alive as Barrack [...]

If you have been visiting closely and have not seen a new post, it is because I’ve had to cope with poor connection for a few days. But then, this post comes in timely as the New Year is exactly 30 days away. 30 days more and the once new year just graduates into another [...]

This astute cop could not be hidden from limelight even after being sentenced to compulsory containment at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos, Plateau State for a mandatory one-year course. If not for Dora’s promotion to being a minister, he would still have made my list as a role [...]

For the very first time in History, the american elections gripped the world like a vice. Even the Nigerian elections did not carry the same fear and exitement among peoples. People could no longer distinguish between people who had the right to vote or not… Today, 200 years after the abolition of slave trade and [...]

In my search for Nigerian Role models, she appears to be the first woman on my growing list. Having spoken to her once, and listened to her three times with the last being at the Platform, I count her worthy to grace my blog pages. She really spoke my mind at the platform by pointedly [...]