In actuality, all of our democratic leaders have been recruited and put into office by tribal and political warlords. Jonathan is the latest stooge occupying our national centre stage…
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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 …
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Our younger brother’s wife was bleeding, losing a lot of blood, laid out on a bed at the National Hospital, Abuja. She had just delivered a baby, their second in …
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Nigerians! We are very good at our usual copy, copy. We can’t wait to follow, follow. We love honour and adulation but we are never prepared to put in the …
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It is a poorly kept secret that, in the Jonathan household, the Mrs, Patience, is the one who wears the pants. She rules the roost. She is the one in …
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Thankfully, things are a lot calmer; let us look again at the re-christening of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) a bit more dispassionately. President Jonathan, in a recent broadcast, directed …
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Nigeria is never in short supply of enablers. They are scattered all over the nation, but most of them reside in the southern part of the country. A disproportionate number …
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From the manger of made-in-Nigeria Sharia came news a couple of weeks ago that some elites in that State have written a petition to the House of Assembly to protest …
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I used to think that American pastors were fakest of the fakes until I happened on Nigerians with the explosion of their ‘prosperity’ churches which are driven by hunger, hopelessness, …
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Delta state is in the sewer all by itself. It has been tied up like a stunned cow with one Emmanuel Uduaghan benightedly pinning her neck to the ground in …
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My friend was lamenting what he was convinced was the striking facial resemblance between him and a Boko Haram miscreant who also happens to come from the same State, Borno…
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As an outsider, I do not know when the subsidy began but my own understanding of the issue takes off from the Babangida/Abacha regimes. I think things took a decidedly …
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It is becoming increasingly and unbearably painful to read now on a regular basis, the bombings taking place in Nigeria and the attendant wanton and unnecessary loss of life. It …
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I guess for most folks, the first hint of President Jonathan’s Murtallabian tendency was the utterly inept manner he allowed the last presidential election to be unnecessarily and gauchely rigged …
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Recently I was in Nigeria. Right about the middle of my stay, my younger brother on his way to work one early morning was accosted by three smartly-dressed men of …
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As a founding member of NADECO, Tinubu was forced into exile in 1994, only to return to the country after Abacha kicked the bucket in mid 1998. Like the rest …