Picking up the blogging baton and running again

I started this blog in the second half of Olusegun Obasanjo's third term as president. Yes, I said "third term". The first was between 1976 and 1979. In total, he was the federal head of government for 11 years, which is currently the record ... ahead of Yakubu Gowon (9 years), the late Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (almost 9 years), Goodluck Jonathan (8 years) and Ibrahim Babangida (almost 8 years). If current-President Buhari completes his 3rd term overall (his second of the Fourth Republic) in 2023, he would leapfrog Babangida, Jonathan, Tafawa Balewa and Gowon to become the second-longest occupier of the top seat in the federal cabinet.

I am obviously counting the 3 years (1957-1960) of the Balewa-led federal administration prior to de jure independence. If we assume the current President completes his term in 2023, then 6 men would have led Nigeria's federal government for almost 55 of the 66 years between 1957 and 2023. A person could write a separate volumes of books on separate topic areas related to this fact ....

.... but that isn't what this post is about.

As I was saying, I started this blog towards the end of Obasanjo's third term. There have been periods when I have consistently written essays and commentaries, and periods when the blog has sort of lain fallow and just a little forgotten.

I am going to try to start writing consistently again .... since I have time on my hands.

As I've said from the beginning, I do not support any Nigerian (or foreign) politicians. You could say I am somewhat hostile to all of them. From the start in the 1950s, Nigeria's politics has never really been fit for purpose. Possibly the greatest problem with political discussion and political action in Nigeria is the belief that all debates, discussions, agreements and resolutions must take place within the still-existing framework of the politics we've practiced (under civilians and soldiers alike) since the 1950s. Then there are the thick, and thickly-problematic layers of danger and difficulty presented by African continental politics and global geopolitics, two paradigms designed and intended from the start to be functionally and consistently harmful to African (and hence Nigerian) strategic interests.

As always, there is a lot to talk about.