No American president, in recent memory is hated and despised as much as President Bush. This president, according to world opinion, has been destructive and terribly bad for the world…
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This is corruption. This is theft. This is gross irresponsibility on the part of the state! Does the state not have competent legal officers to pursue the rogues who perpetrated …
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Nigerian prostitutes, I am told, are worth fifty Naira per round. That’s how cheap they are. And in the last two decades or so, it’s been easier to come by …
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We kill our best and our brightest; we kill our innovators; we kill our political gadfly; we kill those who dare to be different; we kill those who helped in …
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The Minister of Police Affairs wants us to believe no one is above the law. They want us to believe there is a level playing field in Nigeria when it …
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What is happening in the Niger Delta is the product of several decades of neglect and abandonment, of institutional and systemic corruption, of failure in leadership and of a country …
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This president should be told, for his own good and for the good of the nation, that he must change his ways…
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Shehu Shagari’s book is not what is vexing me; what is worrisome is the fact that successive state and federal government in Nigeria have grown accustomed to doling out millions …
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Love, respect and loyalty are the primary ingredients for patriotism. Nigerians are devoid of these ingredients. Loyalty to the country takes a back seat to ethnicity…
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Any wonder that we mistake mediocrity for excellence, stupidity for intelligence, and cowardice for bravery? It is a national tragedy to have shunned men like Buhari who is a patriot, …
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The chief plausible reason, as to why we do not yet have a Nigerian president of Igbo background, in my view, is simply psychological in nature…
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Chief Obafemi Awolowo had his shortcomings. He was not a saint. However, his failings and missteps were far fewer and less injurious than those of his contemporaries. Within the context …
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Why hasn't the president declared a state of emergency in Kano state, Lagos state, and in Kaduna, Benue, Kwara, and in the Niger Delta region? After all, lawlessness reigns supreme …
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I especially wonder why the Nigerian intelligence community has had so many “failures.” Why for instance, have these agencies not been able to imbed some of their members in the …
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What is the level of “federal presence” in Ijaw land? How many colleges of education, polytechnics, colleges of arts & science, roads, hospitals and clinics, bridges, highways, and the likes …
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Rumored coups, attempted coups, or successful coups have become a staple of Nigeria’s culture and political history…