My oga at the top syndrome (1)
If you are a follower of the ever busy and vibrant Nigerian social media scene, you would not have missed this My oga at the top saga. It is as…
Victor Adedapo Kayode- Lest Legend Becomes Myth
One of the most important foundations of any civilization is history. If we do not know our own history, who we are, who and what our forefathers were and where…
Gov. Orji, Partnering Governance With Lies
The Abia State Government-led by Governor Theodore Orji, without equivocation, sees lies as the best policy to replace good governance with, in the state. The government has become an exceptionally…
Nigeria’s Budget and the Dance of the Masquerade
Traditional masquerades have one enduring commonality: they run backwards and forwards; jump up and down and generality create an atmosphere of chaos. At the end of their exertions, though, not…
Pray, Where Is Imo PDP’s N26 Billion?
Imo PDP, that rustic club of free loaders is angry. The members are weeping and gnashing their teeth. They are swearing and cursing. Chei, they want the good old days…
Mistakes of the President, Faults of the Advisers
It is a universal norm of governance that no leader leads without advisers, and time has ascertained that a leader who acts solely on his own judgment surely falls. Consultations…
The Opposition Role in Our Democracy
A political party that is not in power plays the opposition role. The opposition role is that of preparing to go into government. This writer has not seen, of all…
Orji Kalu’s “fake degree”
The war of attrition between Abia State governor, Theodore Orji, and his predecessor Orji Uzor Kalu, took a bizarre turn two weeks ago when the Abia State University (ABSU) released…
Henry Okah: Judicial and Political Blunders by the Trial Judge (part 1)
On January 21, 2013 the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, found Mr. Okah guilty of 13 charges related to terrorism. We’ll get to that and other matters; but for…
Ndoma-Egba: An exemplary leader at 57
In the words of Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), the great author, hunter, naturalist and explorer, who was the 26th American President between 1901 and 1909,…