Buhari should know that being slow and steady is analogue…. one needs to be smart as well. Abimbola Adelakun, columnist with The Punch Newspaper commenting on the President’s style of governance. You should go to [every nook and cranny] of Bayelsa State to sell this good product. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former governor of Bayelsa State, urging…
It Is Official: Ooni Is Dead!
It is now official: The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse the second has joined his ancestors. The Ife Traditional Council, which has been in denial in the past three weeks, when the death of the monarch was first rumoured, has stated that the Oba is no more. The Council made this known today,…
Corruption War Takes Off
There are clear indications that the war on corruption has started in earnest in the country. Two major factors that point to this development are the induction of a panel on war on corruption and the announcement Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari that his administration has started collating facts leading to the identification of officials…
Corruption War: EFCC’s Theatrics
Justice Mustapher Akanbi, first chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, is passionate about ending corruption in Nigeria. When Tajudeen Suleiman, senior associate editor, reached out to the man on whose integrity the ICPC was built last week, he was out of the country. He went to take some rest.…
Short and Sharp
Must everything that is indecent be politics? Ayo Akande, a chieftain of APC, Lagos State, querying a statement from the leadership of the National Assembly. If they think it is a game of Ludo, we will say it is a serious business. Bola Tinubu, APC chieftain, assuring that President Buhari’s action may appear slow,…
Subsidy: Damn Stupid
There was one statistics we could not lay our hands on before going to press last week: the percentage of fuel stations in the country that are regularly dispensing premium motor spirit, pms. But one thing that was apparent is the growing sense of despondency that greets the mention of subsidy, due to the cost…
Let’s Give Buhari Time to Plan
By CHINAZO-BERTRAND OKEOMAH Nigerians are a very impatient lot. We act like the proverbial tortoise cast into a pit for some time. But one day his captors came to release him; whereupon he began to cry, asking them to make haste because he was choking to death from the smell of faeces. Did we not…
Let’s Give Buhari Time to Plan
By CHINAZO-BERTRAND OKEOMAH Nigerians are a very impatient lot. We act like the proverbial tortoise cast into a pit for some time. But one day his captors came to release him; whereupon he began to cry, asking them to make haste because he was choking to death from the smell of faeces. Did we not…
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