It was all over between us! My heart ached for him like a terrible migraine. The tears flooded my eyes. But I couldn’t let him see me sob like a helpless baby. “I have to go,” he announced, “MEE is waiting for me…”
In the military, a commander who fails to achieve his operational objective and under whose watch a calamity occurs will face a disciplinary action that includes but not limited to a court martial. But in the corporate world, it’s a different ball game…
Whenever I look up the meaning of the words anarchy, confusion, chaos and pandemonium in my dictionary, it is always illustrated with a map of Nigeria. Everybody is in charge there. Nobody is in charge there...
It will be difficult for one book to contain the names of all the corrupt people in Nigeria, because that book could well be a multi- million page book…
So this is how it typically ends when a fatal accident happens. No plans, no readiness for death and no goodbyes to loved ones. Who would raise my children? Would they be told I went to Heaven?
For every outstanding Nigerian youth there seem to be too many nincompoops. And sadly, these are people who have dedicated years pursuing a degree or diploma in higher institutions, yet they come out and cannot tell their left from their right...
Talakawa Yar’Adua is not corrupt! He is the only Nigerian governor to publicly declare his assets before he was sworn in, in 1999 and again, before his re-inauguration in 2003…
I don’t really think that I am stronger than the rest of the girls, but I just have a knack for seeing things the way they are. If I must be foolish, I want to do so with both eyes open…
Our country as it is today is threatened by a total breakdown of law and order. There is the ever increasing rate of armed robbery, the abduction of expatriates, corruption, bickerings among our leaders…
Could there be something in government that turns all our leaders in Nigeria into monsters? Is there a controlling spirit or are they all just outright immature, not able to delay gratification?
The bitter truth, which would be too hard to shy away from, is that NEPA has worked so hard to distinguish itself as one of the most excruciating problems of the Nigerian nation, which has even terribly worsened since it took on the new name of PHCN…