No one who can rise before dawn three hundred and sixty days a year fails to make his family rich — Chinese proverb Nigeria continues to astound the world by its amazing waste of opportunities, the bare-faced graft of its leaders and the low grade output of its policy decisions. A widely referenced article by American journalist, Joel Brinkley, ... Read More »
In my national youth corps year, I got a job offer with a woman who was a magistrate but also ran a private school by the side. One day, she asked me to show up for an interview with her but when I did, it turned out to be a chat. Actually, she did the talking and I, not sure ... Read More »
No threat can stop the merger of parties to kick out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said yesterday. There is allegedly a presidential directive to stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) — the vehicle for the merger. But the ACN said the leadership of the party cannot be cowed by an executive order to ... Read More »
In the wake of the clamp down on the insurgents in Kano and other parts of the north and the President’s insistence that the sect must be confronted for who they are, the presidency is subtly sounding a note of warning that, with ethnic and religious sentiments being weaved into the fight against terror, Jonathan could as well beware of ... Read More »
Nigeria, when will this madness stop? From the local governments to the presidency, we are daily greeted with absurdities and the unusual. Or what else can we call the quest for a non-vacant seat by a failed politician and shrewd businessman? For those who don’t know, the sacking of Ondo State Government headed by Olusegun Agagu by the ... Read More »
