Recently, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released its rating of what it considered ‘good governance’ in African countries with indexes based on security, legislation, transparency and corruption, human rights, poverty and health, sustainable, economic and human development…
It is said that if you close your eyes because you do not want to see evil, that good would also pass by unnoticed by you…
Ever since Mr. Timipre Sylva became the governor, and Mr. Goodluck became the Vice President, both men have managed to find ways to cause themselves, and the people of Bayelsa, pain and grief…
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We thought that all hell was going to break loose again when the election tribunal in Anambra state upturned the purported ‘victory’ of one of Olusegun Obasanjo’s godsons, Andy Uba in favour of the incumbent, Peter Obi…
It was always going to end in tears. I mean the eventual displacement of Mallam Ribadu from the EFCC. There was a certain sense of inevitability about his removal from office…
The time has come for Nigerians to begin to express a good measure of pessimism concerning those who put themselves up for public office. And that is because the Nigerian leadership project is like one that has been hijacked by a virus introduced into the political space…
Anyone reading this piece should consider himself privileged. Why? This is because it means that you can not only read but can also afford to buy a newspaper or browse the Internet…
Nobody, seeing Oyetunji, well-built and dressed in a T-shirt and jeans could imagine that he had managed to carry on without an organ that served as both his urinary tool and an index of his manhood…
After reading Udongo Itiaita, one comes off with the impression that this is a radical departure from the run-of-the-mill treaties that prescribe paternalistic, holier-than-thou admonitions on how to stay free from getting infected with HIV…
In a state of animated shock, I stared at my surroundings. I was in a hospital ward, So I had recovered from the anesthesia. I remembered being wheeled into the operating room…