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    They Give No Hoot of Who Done It

    It is an understatement that corruption has reached a crisis point in Nigeria. The people have seen camels pass through the eye of the needle in this country. It is hopeless when people realize that injustice pervades the realm that should be the final arbiter. They say the law is an ass. There is no […] More

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    Supreme Court Vs People’s Court

    Why was Nyesom Wike testifying live on television as if possessed? That was the poser from a close friend, Mr. Pius Babalola, after watching that unedifying episode at which the Rivers State Governor told the story of his victory, holding nothing back. Wike seems to be a man of truth who did not want to […] More

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    Deluge Knocking at the Door

    Who is to blame for Lagos returning to a dirty megalopolis? There are roads in Lagos State that care has forgotten for more than two decades. February announces the arrival of the wet season in southern Nigeria though now dry in Lagos. Someone said jokingly that God had a reason for creating the type of […] More

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    The Imperatives of Change

    I beg to disagree with His Eminence on a certain matter of common interest but to agree with labour and manufacturers on the change so desired for our recovery to be a reality. We are looking forward to having once again conditions of our not-too-distant past when every Nigerian had something that positively engaged them. […] More

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    The Kids Are Not Growing

    The character of any nation is the sum of its leadership quality. Leadership is not necessarily one person. But there must be an arrowhead whose virtues or vices, as the case may be, pull people of like minds to the core of its being. I was not surprised to see the names reeled out by […] More

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    Buhari, Dream Even of Impossible

    “The young shall grow” is the name of one of those transport companies with buses ever present on Nigerian roads. And the old will die. It is simple syllogism that there is nothing permanent on earth, except the air we breathe. As hard as ‘man’ tries to conserve nature, it is tampered with, even in […] More

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    SAP: Largade Must Apologise

    They could not have been our new friends from Washington. Did Christine Largade, the mortician, come with a bell to conduct Nigeria’s final economic funeral rite? What hog wash was she uttering when the Breton Wood syndicate, in most of the last 29 years, supervised the destruction of what took our nationalists tears, sweat and […] More

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    Yawning Credibility Gap in Media

    President Muhammadu Buhari spoke frankly to Nigeria without frills and embellishment. It took one back memory lane and invoked the images of men like Obalemi Awolowo, Nwafor Orizu, Humphrey Omo-Osagie, Adegoke Adelabu, Aminu Kano, Michael Okpara and Murtala Muhammed in public life. Like personages just mentioned, Buhari did not make empty promises. He was down-to-earth […] More

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    The People’s Charter

      They want a magician as their leader. But Houdini is no more to pull tricks out of the bag for them. President Muhammadu Buhari is no magician and does not feast on illusions. He believes in the real world that takes form from natural order. The inimitable Samuel Ogbemudia once asked whether six months […] More

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    Need for New Agenda

    One reminisces events of the dying 2015 with mixed feelings. To recollect the many odious happenings of the year is to push President Muhammadu Buhari to race hell-for-leather to mete severe justice to those who have degraded Nigeria so badly with unimaginable brigandage. Their names are: Theft, larceny, stealing, looting, pillaging and accessory to those […] More

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    The Last of the Mohicans Passeth

    To say the world is in turmoil is an understatement. But these do not portend the end of time yet. It was the poor leadership of one man at the head of a global power that stoked the fire of hate that has spread beyond its original zone to every place imaginable. Click here to […] More

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    Privatisation’s Swan Song

    One tires of the insipid froth in defence of a crooked plot gone awry, specifically the Nigerian privatisation fiasco. The foreign marketers of the product have since quietly stopped the barn-storming crusade from Washington, but not the insecure middlemen in Nigeria, who are still waddling in their tomfoolery. I exposed long ago that the World […] More

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