When a few years ago the former Governor of Kwara State, Mohammed Lawal, died in a foreign hospital after a ‘protracted illness’, tongues started wagging as whether his death was of normal natural cause or caused by other factors chiefly human…
Nations are not exactly run like business enterprise or interest specific organizations. Yet, strategy that are employ by business/organization to ensure success and growth could be applied to government at all level to ensure overall improvement and efficiency…
Political violence has by and large been a part of the nation’s political lexicon for a very long time. In a sense, therefore, one could say that it is all part of the process, that indeed in our effort towards creating a fully functioning system of democracy, it is quite natural for us to come to terms with such realities…
Nationalism is evil!
This writer is both for and against the WikiLeaks adventure. I am in support because I am for the truth, the full disclosure against the power game of rogue states. But I am against because millions of American military lives are placed in immediate danger by these dangerous exposures…
Can any Nigerian among the many who are daily buffeted by sundry poor service providers ever walk into the office of any parliamentarian anywhere in the country and get heard and helped in any way? Do most Nigerians even know the constituency offices of their so-called representatives?
It is a popular joke that a carpenter of a developed country becomes an engineer when he comes to any project in a third world country. Those statements sum-up the effect of misusing our collective resources; money and wealth by those in authority…
Little can be achieved with the current falsehood and denial approach that most African countries are utilizing when it comes to HIV/AIDS and other issues. However, accepting failure is the first step towards being successful…
Now that greed and corruption of a few for the benefit of a few have wrought destruction of global magnitude, it is now the case that there is an onset of selective bailouts and rescues of some nations and their banks, financial institutions and their national economies…
Patriotism may indeed be the last refuge of Nigerian people. But despite that, it is never a wise thing to question a person’s integrity only because he or she does not agree with the accuser…
While Atiku may be rejoicing now for the way he scaled the Northern Political Leaders’ Forum screening, he should as well be remembering the days he narrowly escaped the PDP’s waiver magnet during the period he defected from the Action Congress…