Peter Claver Oparah

Any visitor to Nigeria, observing the raging noisy altercation about the removal of the so called subsidy on petroleum products, would be led to so many faulty assumptions which the government has brought to bear on the issue...

Nigeria is a nation run on the erratic brainwave of those that have succeeded in cornering state power. Here, the attention span of both the leaders and the led is mercifully short. No importance is attached to details...

The nation is about to engage in another worthless ritual of bestowing national honours on a select crop of its citizens, mainly drawn from the government and corporate circle...

Once again, the nation's blood pressure has been revved up by our rulers and we are being fatally told to await the unraveling of what should be the biggest increase in the price of fuel...

I don't know what was possibly on the mind of President Goodluck Jonathan as he quickly acceded to the generally criticized recommendation of the National Judicial Council to remove Justice Ayo Salami, the President of the Appeal Court...

It is difficult to weigh whether former Head of State, Sani Abacha's choice hitman, Hamza Al Mustapha, expected the huge public spat that had greeted his revelation of what happened during the earlier years of the Abdulsalami Abubakar regime, especially as they concern the deaths of his boss, Sani Abacha and the winner of the June 12 1993 election, Chief MKO Abiola...

With mouth agape, a friend of mine, on a first visit to Ghana, narrated how efficient the country works and how far behind we have been left as a nation. On another occasion, he was with a top Ghanaian player in the Nigerian private sector and the story was how perfectly efficient sectors that fumble and wobble in Nigeria work so well in Ghana...

We must remind ourselves of the following paradoxes that spew from this fuel subsidy mantra; Nigeria is the only major oil producing country that imports refined petroleum products and among the major oil producers, Nigerians pay the highest price for refined petroleum products...