Kukah’s unfortunate defence of Obasanjo’s abysmal misrule should provide a window for the examination of his strange, embarrassing support and defence for Gana. His eager, uncritical romance with politics, and friendship with political figures like Obasanjo and Gana, have done untold damage to the sterling ideals he so jealously espoused…
“This talks about teaching…you didn’t say anything about teaching – did you tell the High Commission in London that you were going to be teaching in Canada? And upstairs you said you were a journalist, then a doctor and now you’re teaching?”
“This talks about teaching…you didn’t say anything about teaching – did you tell the High Commission in London that you were going to be teaching in Canada? And upstairs you said you were a journalist, then a doctor and now you’re teaching?”
Have you ever been to Ekiti State? If you have, you will understand the depth of my consternation. Ekiti State is one of the poorest in the Federation. Other than a relatively higher percentage of Western education enjoyed by its people, the State has virtually nothing else going for it...
A cursory look at the map of Africa will reveal a continent broken up into weak nation-states that can barely sustain themselves. In reality, very few African countries are actually viable by themselves without a measure of foreign aid and consequently intervention…
It is wrong for the government not to be involved in the commercial sex business when it is so obvious that it is the most singular business turning the economic wheel at night. If government is taxing liquor and cigarette sellers, why not tax sex sellers?
Why do we then refer to Nigeria as a democracy? We know for instance that Nigerian elections are never free and fair, that the peoples’ rights are regularly abridged, and that the press and the judiciary are not independent and free to function within the dictates of the constitution, and that it is strenuous entering and exiting the political system…
Pat Utomi and others like him must stop their grandiose dreams of changing Nigeria from the top and consider more realistic ways of impacting concrete changes in their societies…
Certain aspects of the western culture are good and may be copied. Nevertheless, it is shocking to see some Africans abandon, in whole scale, their Africanness…
“I flog a lot. I have canes. If husband and wife mess up by having misunderstanding, I have to settle them. But the person that is at fault, I must flog. If the person refuses to be flogged, I will send him out of the church”. – Rev. King
I wish to congratulate Ngozi Okonjo Iweala for her service to the nation and for her resignation. When young people mention the good that is happening to Nigeria, they include her…