Helicopter crashes and the carriage of hope
It was yet another sad day in the history of the country as several prominent Nigerians lost their lives in an ill-fated helicopter crash few days ago. This writer join…
Memo to Doyin Okupe: What is President Jonathan Hiding (2)
After the first part of this piece appeared last week, I received a couple of emails accusing me of several wrongdoings, from “disgracefully cherry-picking your press statement” to “being an…
Education: The Bulwark of Freedom
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave-Lord Chancellor Baron Henry Peter. Freedom would be meaningless, if existent at all,…
Nigeria’s Worsening Corruption Complex-What A country!
Few days ago, Transparency International came out with a damning report to the effect that Nigeria is the 35th most corrupt country on earth. This was coming on the heels…
Race for PDP BoT Chair: Between moderation and desperation
Since after the November 30, 2012 meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which was adjourned to January 8, 2013, for the purpose of picking…
A Fool And His Money
The other day, a friend narrated a story, which I found stranger than fiction; the story related to the travails of a family who lost a successful and illustrious breadwinner,…
Found: The Missing Transformation Plan
Last week I finally laid my eyes on the Transformation Agenda plan of the Goodluck Jonathan government. I thank my Nigerian compatriot who dredged it up for me. This document…
Memo to Doyin Okupe: What is President Jonathan Hiding?
I refer to your press conference of Thursday, December 6, 2012, in which you tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to do a cleanup of President Jonathan’s anti-corruption credentials. You would agree that…
Kidnapping a nation
The octogenarian mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped right from inside their palace last week. Of course it had to happen in Delta State, the home of…
Gang Jonathan and the looting of Nigeria
The official rape of Nigeria, unbeknownst to all her citizens commenced officially when President Goodluck Jonathan took over as Acting President in the twilight of Umar Yar’adua’s sickly Presidency. That…