I see IBB as a man with a lot of self respect. I suppose most Nigerians do too especially when we consider the fact that ‘little children’ like Nasir El-Rufai …
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Nigerians were angry that Cecilia Ibru got off as light as she did. Over the past few months, she was vigorously pursued by the EFCC on allegations of abuse of …
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My parents did not teach me to be arrogant, neither did my teachers. Arrogance is something you could pick up along the road of life, and sometimes too when you …
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On my way to the office, a bit close to the Yar’Adua centre, I notice that the ground shook after a thunderous blast – twice. I looked up in the …
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Nigerian leaders and big men dying on us is no news. In the days of the second republic, many governors affected by the Muhammadu Buhari putsch lost their lives just …
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I do agree that football certainly has a unifying character. However, this lasts only 90 minutes and football has not emulsified us. We have spent billions of naira on football …
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The man who became the Nigerian coach was a successful failure. Quite unlike Shuaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerback could not qualify his country, Sweden, for the World Cup. He and his …
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A group of Nigerians is losing sleep over the speculations that Goodluck Jonathan may run for president next year. This group is jittery that if Goodluck Jonathan eventually decides to …
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As far as I am concerned, anybody can be corrupt whether you are a journalist or not. Everybody, even the Pope or Obama, has a price. Whether you are a …
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Just after the president died, those who took one cheap shot or the other at him and at his family are the very ones now praising him to heaven and …
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For years since independence, the North has always insisted on controlling the police, the army, the petroleum that they do not produce and even produce the president. Where this whole …
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The sad reality of our common existence on a common platform makes it imperative to use the right terms, if only so that everyone really understands what is happening. That …
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At this ‘critical’ period of our life as a nation, those whom chance thrust on us as leaders should have no need of the former templates of religion or our …
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When a person of Gaddafi’s pedigree begins to suggest that we must jettison the federal character principle and allow merit and achievement to be the templates for our march forward, …
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What is rampant in Nigeria today are major cases reminiscent of the kind of ethnic cleansing that took place in Burundi, the Sudan and in Kosovo. Usually disguised as tribal …
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One thing I know is that if we were in the same condition and have wives who truly loved us, wives or daughters whom we have given love, wealth and …