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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Martins Oloja I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The word of life above captures all that I was saying last week on “BuhariWatch: a period of consequences”.I […]
Nigeria police. PHOTO: GOOGLE<br /> The recurrent issue of federalism within the contextual discussion of restructuring has become a metaphor for curious failure of state actors to do the right thing about nation building at the right time. The issues that shape and even trigger discussions on the issue of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari. PHOTO/TWITTER/APCnigeria It is difficult to live in our country without being confused. Things are getting messier when they should be getting clearer. President Muhammadu Buhari captured our imagination in 2015 as a man totally intolerant of corruption or at least practices that give the country a bad […]
[FILE PHOTO] Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s rather perplexing insistence that administrative restructuring is not the solution to Nigeria’s politico-economic problems, does suggest that the academic-turned-politician is a poor student of history. (I state this with a high sense of responsibility). Otherwise, the ex-officio chairman of […]
Students in a classroom. At the mention of the word ‘literacy’, what comes to mind is the ability to read and write. Literacy, however, is a broader concept that encompasses more than just the acts of reading and writing but includes grammar, spelling, numeracy and much more. Literacy simply put, […]
Unemployment is one of the major issues affecting Nigeria’s economy and its society. The rate of unemployment has increased during the last few years due to the fallout from the economic challenges. Out of a total active labour force of 85.08 million people in Nigeria, about 16 million people were […]
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari / AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGAN Sir: There were allegations of corruption leveled against the military regime led by Generals Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ), Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (the elder brother of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua) and Theophilus Danjuma, but it fulfilled the promise of the assassinated General Murtala […]
Former Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida Vice President Yemi Osinbajo last Sunday took a swipe at past governments in Nigeria accusing them of draining huge funds with little or no investment in infrastructure. Specifically, he accused the IBB/Abacha administration, the Obasanjo/Yar’ Adua governments and the Jonathan administration of this […]
Mambilla power plant project abandoned for over 33 years One of the high points of the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Presidency was the debt forgiveness. After years of negotiation and complex diplomacy, Obasanjo and his economic team were able to get for Nigeria a historic debt forgiveness of 36 billion dollars. […]
[FILE PHOTO] INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had, as far back as when Professor Attahiru Jega was in the saddle as national chairman, formulated a body of rules or regulations that would guide and ensure the credibility of the conduct of primary elections by […]
[FILE]President @MBuhari at the State House meeting with the APC Governors Forum, led by Forum Chairman, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State #AsoVillaTodayPhoto: Twitter/NGRPresident The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the method to adopt for its party primaries shows that nothing has changed in the way […]
President Muhammadu Buhari The other day, the Presidency announced, with gusto, that President Muhammadu Buhari had signed Executive Order 6 into law. I was miffed. Executive Order 6 means there have been five earlier Executive Orders! Executive Order 6 whose short title, “Preservation of Suspicious Assets Connected with Corruption and […]
The beauty of the Nigerian space is its conduciveness—excuse the unfortunate and unintended pun—to throw up eternal “words on marble” everyone can relate to, and on deeper rumination, hold so much truth in their simplicity, awkwardness or even abstractness. These coinages have become everything it means to be Nigerian because […]
