Opinion

JONATHAN, AREGBESOLA AND THE YORUBA NATION (Part 2)

Once upon a time there was an obscure little man who wrote a book that inspired the German people and lifted them up from the shame and degradation of their defeat after the First World War. That book and...

KENYA FANATICS AGAIN: NO WHERE TO RUN TO BUT AFRICA

It was only yesterday when Africans left their shores to study abroad, mostly in Europe and America but also in the Eastern and Middle-Eastern countries. Most came back well qualified as teachers, lawyers, doctors, accountants and engineers. Fast forwards,...

THE FIRE NEXT TIME … HISTORY WILL BE WRITTEN IN THE STREETS NOT AT THE POLLS

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I feel helpless not to mock or inveigh the parade of buffoonery that has become daily libations in the feverish anticipation of Nigeria’s most dreaded Political Year 2015. The political landscape is littered with dubious merchandizing efforts by terrifyingly corrupt...

KAFANCHAN AND VICIOUS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

A quick glance at my international passport was what I needed to reassure myself that Kafanchan, a rusty and sleepy town in the Southern part of Kaduna State remains my place of birth on record. Cumulatively I spent about twenty...

A PARABLE OF BRAINLESS LEADERS

There’s this apocryphal story that a friend of mine, an exiled Zimbabwean writer, told me a few years ago. It went like this. President Robert Mugabe had sent one of his ministers to represent him at an important state...

THE STATE OF THE NIGERIA NATION No.3 Vol.III

This exposition on the state of the nation is a quarterly review I have endeavoured to embark upon as a responsive citizen concerned about events as they unfold in the nation. Among the issues covered in this issue are...

CELEBRATING BAYELSA STATE AT 17

In few days time, the government and people of Bayelsa state will gather to celebrate 17 years of the existence of our beloved state. As we look into the future with hope, it also a time of a brief...

THE SMOKESCREEN NATURE OF THE 2009 ASUU-FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGREEMENT AND WHERE THE PROBLEMS OF NIGERIAN HIGHER EDUCATION ARE LOCATED – (PART THREE)

This is the continuation of part two of our Public Information on how less than 5% of Nigerians continued to corner and pocket close to 80% of her public finances on annual basis especially in areas of spurious allowances...

IBORI: VERBATIM STATEMENTS THAT CONTRADICT RIBADU’S $15M BRIBERY ALLEGATION

Details of Statements:: 1; Ribadu’s Nigerian statement: My name is Nuhu Ribadu and I am Chairman of Economic and Fiancial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria. Sometime within the month of April 2007 Mr. James Ibori, the former Governor of Delta...

MAMA NIGERIA: THE PARABLE OF A MOTHER

"You do not spit it out, and yet you do not swallow it". Addressing the 54th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Economic Summit that held in Abuja last week, president Goodluck Jonathan blamed the level of corruption in Nigeria...