Not too long ago, Nigeria was at par with South Korea, Malaysia and other far east nations that were developing at the same pace with Nigeria in the sixties. Today, the distance has been greatly widened…
In a country with over two hundred and fifty thousand paid policemen, thirty thousand custom agents, fifteen thousand immigration officers, eighty thousand military personnel, and nearly fifty thousand men and women in the law enforcement circles, a common criminal called Governor Alamieyeseigha just strolled in unannounced into the jubilating arms of a despicable and decadent society!
One can understand some black women wearing wigs for the same reasons that some white women do; because they are losing or have lost their hair. One can even make allowances for wigs being worn for the occasional change of look. But how to explain young women with full heads of hair who will never be seen dead with their natural hair?
Corrupt friends of President Obasanjo are untouched while his enemies are hounded by the EFCC. The thinking in British Government circles is that Pres. Obasanjo is using the agency to silence his critics and that the British Government is being used to settle political scores…
If anything is to be learnt from Alamieyesegha’s brazen escape from London and the bravado with which he has reportedly “resumed” his “authority as governor” of Bayelsa state, it is simply that the provision in Nigeria’s constitution of 1999 regarding immunity is now long overdue for amendment or complete repeal…
Nigeria is a very dangerous place, and we are a dangerous people. The same categories of people that are campaigning for the continuation of the Obasanjo administration are the same ‘yes men’ of yesterday. They were the first propagators of the five leprous hands that turned Nigeria to a banana state…
I have taken time to examine the various tributes paid to late Stella Obasanjo by several characters that have over the years over-tasked the public space with their uninspiring presence…
Alamieyeseigha did not get to where he is without help and encouragement. He was helped and encouraged by the deafening silence of some Ijaw leaders who also participated in the governor’s gluttonous ways; they colluded with the governor in betraying the hope and trust of the citizens…
Nigerians need to actively engage and participate in making public and private institutions in Nigeria serve all Nigerians for our common good…
I am still hoping that Agagu and his Deputy would allow wiser counsel to prevail, and not assume that once they have finally given Akure a new Deji, theirs and our problems have been solved for good. It has only been swept under the carpet…
It is debated in intellectual circles that the current group of leaders has also failed to start. If that is true, could we not start again? If you were given great land mass, lots of sunshine lots of disparate people groups, plenty of mineral resources to work with, what would you do?