In Ike Oguine’s A Squatter’s Tale, we see what happens when what passes for free enterprise is layered on a rickety structure of governance. The result is capitalism of the worst sort, of a swarm of locusts engaged in self immolation – a relentless march of self destruction ravaging and raping the heart and soul of a once proud people…
My country and our men and women have a passion for football. Even the kids. And that is why I sometimes wonder why the postage stamp on my snail mail ignites an interest more profound than the squabbles with our FA and its leadership…
While trying to build an empire for our families, we should remember that the persons on whose behalf we build will have to live among their peers...
Kukah’s unfortunate defence of Obasanjo’s abysmal misrule should provide a window for the examination of his strange, embarrassing support and defence for Gana. His eager, uncritical romance with politics, and friendship with political figures like Obasanjo and Gana, have done untold damage to the sterling ideals he so jealously espoused…
“This talks about teaching…you didn’t say anything about teaching – did you tell the High Commission in London that you were going to be teaching in Canada? And upstairs you said you were a journalist, then a doctor and now you’re teaching?”
“This talks about teaching…you didn’t say anything about teaching – did you tell the High Commission in London that you were going to be teaching in Canada? And upstairs you said you were a journalist, then a doctor and now you’re teaching?”
Have you ever been to Ekiti State? If you have, you will understand the depth of my consternation. Ekiti State is one of the poorest in the Federation. Other than a relatively higher percentage of Western education enjoyed by its people, the State has virtually nothing else going for it...
A cursory look at the map of Africa will reveal a continent broken up into weak nation-states that can barely sustain themselves. In reality, very few African countries are actually viable by themselves without a measure of foreign aid and consequently intervention…
It is wrong for the government not to be involved in the commercial sex business when it is so obvious that it is the most singular business turning the economic wheel at night. If government is taxing liquor and cigarette sellers, why not tax sex sellers?
Why do we then refer to Nigeria as a democracy? We know for instance that Nigerian elections are never free and fair, that the peoples’ rights are regularly abridged, and that the press and the judiciary are not independent and free to function within the dictates of the constitution, and that it is strenuous entering and exiting the political system…
Pat Utomi and others like him must stop their grandiose dreams of changing Nigeria from the top and consider more realistic ways of impacting concrete changes in their societies…