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In plain language, Obasanjo's moral standing is beginning to be dented. And, to consider that this is the same man, who came from prison to praise and from praise to presidency, one wonders what is going awry...
Tafa Balogun was accused of corruption and of extorting some government functionaries. Whatever became of those allegations? What happened to the vice president after being accused of illegally amassing real estate in his home state?
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court verdict to free Amina Lawal, the chest thumping began and personalities and groups claimed her acquittal was a victory for themselves and their ideology. But does anyone care about what Amina Lawal had to say about her acquittal?
No one is going to rescue us from our burden. No one is going to free us. We know what to do to get out of the mess we are in, and have been for well over 20 years. We Nigerians know exactly what to do...
Over the years, Nigerian political parties and parliaments have sometimes proved to be the most discredited institutions, with low levels of trust from the electorates...
In the past one hundred and six days, Africans all over the continent, those who could afford cable tv subscriptions or a television set for those who caught the programme courtesy local television stations, were turned to voyeurs...
My people are still suffering, corrupt ex-governors and other politicians are still roaming the streets and still dictating the tunes, current politicians are still embroiled in the mesh of corruption...
The United Nations, international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC) must know that Nigeria is in the midst of genocide in the proportions of Rwanda in 1994...
For heavens sake, let's stop this nonsense! Insulting our president will not make our nation better or greater, or make us look great in the eyes of the world; but instead, it will make us look like juveniles and vagabonds...
Political will includes both a will to exercise self restraint and willingness to take politically risky decisions. Leaders are important for their value as role model. Especially in hero-worshiping cultures like Nigeria’s...
In a constitutional democracy, accountability is owed to the electorate by all persons in government but Nigerians have had their voices caged for so long now...
Since every other measure to exorcise the spectre of election rigging from our body-politic seems to have failed, our hope now lies entirely on the judiciary. Our indefatigable judges have to give an unambiguous signal that electoral crimes would be punished commensurately...
The stories of municipal or private woes that have led to the worst financial crisis in decades in the West which led to rising debts, failing states like Greece and Iceland mirror the tale of woes that trailed the influx of Western consultants and loan peddlers in newly independent Africa in the 70s and 80s...
To achieve peace in Jos, all stakeholders must be brought on board, not just a handful of political dumb-nuts. Bringing all stakeholders together must be done without any concession to ethnic, religious, political and economic affiliation...
That Nigeria as a nation is partner to predatory multi-national corporations with Head-quarters in the US is a fact we can here stipulate. That these US corporations have had lopsided agreements greased by bribery and corruption of Nigerian government officials...
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