The Man GEJ is as confused as any Nigerian; knowing what is best to do in order to emancipate Nigerians from a high level of moral, economic, political and socio-cultural decadence…
In less than three days, precisely on Saturday, April 2, Nigerians will, again, troop to the polls to elect new leaders for the various legislative and executive positions at both the state and federal levels, in what some cynical political observers refer to as another democratic ritual…
There are many thought provoking scenes in the book. There is his visit to the 100 million dollar Mai Deribe mansion in Maiduguri with its Italian marble floors, Gold Room and mechanized doormats and his encounter with Ahmed Sani, the Sharia law proponent Governor of Zamfara State who admits that his wealth was acquired improperly as a central bank official under Abacha…
One can in all honesty say the government’s fight against corruption ended with the death of Umar Yar’Adua. Jonathan’s government should start fighting embezzlement of public funds…
The Igbo have come out to state their support for Jonathan. The apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has officially endorsed Jonathan. They don’t have much option anyway. The other candidates have not endeared themselves to the Igbo…
I have long nursed a profound disquiet about the prospects and direction of Nigeria, but two recent encounters have crystallized for me the particular shape and depth of the country’s malaise…
Granted Prof Akinwale became a professor at a relatively young age. Granted he became the Dean of studies at a young age but with these lapses of thought so far, I am still waiting for justifications of such precocity…
Until the African Union sets up a mega information organ, misinformation, disinformation and lies, must continue to be the way information about African affairs will be dealt with by the Western media…
Recently, a close ally of Ibori and Uduaghan made some confessions. And this is one who we thought did not only share with the duo the underpinning crude dynamics that created all the rot Ibori and Uduaghan gave Delta, but was co-operator of the machine that drove all that to most damning level…
A Nigerian jurisprudence has not taken root to deal with our wrong social values, the entrenched negative ethos, the disparity in the wage structure and the revenue allocation system, these hinder the positive operation of the rule of law…
Regrettably, African leaders of today are still backward and blind to the economic misfire of the West and their Asian Marauders. Old age has eaten deep into the emancipatory consciousness of these leaders, and they have been crippled by the unreasonable aid of the West, through IMF and their Imperialist collaborators…
