The stone that the builders rejected
Recently, the Nigerian press was awash with a deluge of criticisms about Pentecostal ministers buying jets and living in affluence. Beautiful! This is the same Pentecostal movement that started as…
Waivers for the rich, Hard labour for the poor
The primary underlying principle of a social contract in a modern democratic dispensation is that of equality of all persons. Instructively, the wider the social inequity, the greater also will…
Discipline, Obasanjo and the PDP
The patriarchal counseling of the former President, Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo to members of the Peoples Democratic Party on the issue of discipline within the party was widely reported in…
Joy comes in the morning
Today our nation stands at a crossroad and it is left for us to decide which path we choose to take. Do we take the path of despair and dishonour…
A Governor, Three Ministers and their Burden
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, created a media firestorm last week when he proposed that the civil service be cut by half.…
Nigeria without Electoral commissions
The Nigerian constitution makes provision for national and state “independent” electoral commissions to organize, undertake, and supervise all elections under their specified jurisdictions, and to compile and maintain a register…
Should government sack 50% of civil servants?
At the Second Annual Capital Market Retreat in Warri, the CBN Governor, Lamido Sanusi, made a strong case against the current dedication of about 70 per cent of national income…
Will the Nigerian woman ever stand up?
Four times in the past 10 years, I have challenged the Nigerian woman to rise and shine. In: “Whatever Happened to the Nigerian Woman? (New Age, April 2003), I said:…
What About Us?
I am not going to bore you with statistics about how the Nigerian public officers and civil servants take more than 70 per cent of Nigeria’s revenues every year; probably,…
The Fuel Subsidy Conundrum (Part 2)
I ended the first part of this piece last week by asking on whose side President Jonathan was on the fuel subsidy debacle: the Nigerian masses or his oil-marketers friends?…