For residents of some Lekki Phase 1 streets, it is sorrow all the way as the roads become impassable…
Because it’s in our statute book, the various state and local governments use the quota system in their various appointments. Merit, experience and hard work do not matter if quota system is in use, especially when it comes to appointments…
The whole scenario called Nigeria presents one with a nightmare, a long one without any discernable way forward. Sometimes the ‘project’ Nigeria, apologies to Prof Dora Akunyili, is comparable to a long nightmare…
So much for the naysayers of all complexions and complexities – within and without of Africa – who at the onset of majority rule in South Africa, predicted with prophetic certainty that that nation was doomed…
It pops up in the media regularly. A hydra headed monster which has posed serious threat to man’s survival. Generally referred to as food and energy crisis, one wonders whether there is no more land to grow food…
In the wake of a spate of collapsed building in Lagos in recent times, Nigerians have resorted to using foreign builders mostly from the West African sub-region…
The criminalization of politics has inevitably led to the politicization of crime. Of course, electoral politics is not the sole reason for the criminalization of politics…
If there was anytime that Nigeria was truly good or great, it was in the vainglorious 70s, sometimes snidely referred to as the ‘oil-boom’ years. Those who experienced it describe it in superlatives and in platitudinous terms…
When my cousin’s wife with her one-week due pregnancy developed some complications and was rushed to hospital, it was not the doctor that discharged her, it was her pastor. He prayed and asked if she had faith. Who would not answer yes? Like Jesus, he said pack up your mat and go. She too is died…
Christian religious leaders in Bauchi who were in the thick of the action when the mayhem of February 22 lasted insist that the riots are the handiwork of terrorists in military uniform bent on perpetrating an agenda to unleash terror and to Islamize Nigeria…
I am thinking that we should re-name the Lagos – Benin expressway ‘The Devil’s Highway’ due to the state of the road and incessant armed robbery attacks on the road…