What is genocide? How many people do you need to kill before you qualify as genocidal? How many millions do you need to steal from your people before it becomes “impermissible in International Law”? Do you have to transfer the whole budgetary vote to your private accounts in London before it becomes “impermissible”?
Dr. Bukola Saraki was elected the Executive Governor of Kwara State in 2003. He replaced his father’s former political godson, Mohammed Lawal. The later had fallen out with Bukola’s father, and therefore, had to be shown the door…
In Nigeria today we have the Nigeria Police, FRSC, EFCC, ICPC, Office of Public Prosecution, FIIB, SSS, DMI, NIA, DIA etc. all different agencies that investigate, prosecute and even arrest citizens all over the country without being answerable to anyone. It is high time all these agencies are consolidated into a unified system…
They have figured it out that it is better to safely divide up Akure at a time the preeminent Amanyanabo and owner of Akure, the Deji’s throne is vacant, and the Regent and the Akure Council of Chiefs don’t see eye-to-eye…
Sometime ago, the president of Nigeria launched a pet project, which by now is long forgotten and dead. It is dead because even the person who initiated it probably used it as a popularity stunt and never actually believed in it himself. He called the project; “I see Hope”.
“The House was leased from 1999 until 2004, when I completed payment for the house. I bought it from a Sokoto businessman who lived in that house for about thirty years.”
It would appear that Nigerians have come to expect their public officials to engage in corruption, profligacy and all kinds of public immorality. While we have been applauded for bringing these acts of corruption to light, some of our readers are tiring from these stories…
After about ten years of attending Nigeria’s National Independence Day Parades in New York City, this year’s October 1st 2005 festivities were outstandingly the best yet!
Lawlessness is the most effective ingredient for breeding ravenous monsters for any nation. In the same vein, it will take a real miracle, which is very rare in Nigeria, to stop a president who is unchecked by any laws, and unrestrained by any Assembly, from quickly transforming into a free, all-devouring lion let loose in the open…
Alamieyeseigha dug the hole he currently finds himself in. The perception, whether real or not, is that he misappropriated funds. That he abused his power. That he engaged in all manner of illegalities to the detriment of the well being of the Ijaw nation. The Diaspora Ijaws are even taken aback by his supposed excesses and gluttony…
October holds memorable significance in my diary. It’s of course time of year to reflect on the state of our national journey since independence, which many of us still regard with great patriotic zeal despite the fact that the elapsing 45 years of unparalleled khakistocracy has condemned Nigerians to seeming perpetual purposelessness…