2014: Electoral Tasks Ahead
“Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy, but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.” – Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher (1724-1804), in Critique…
Amaechi and the agony of democracy in Rivers
For some time now, the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. If he is not abusing or making jest…
The Quality of a Good Politician in a Democratic Society
My little Oxford dictionary defines politician as “person engaged or interested in politics” and politics as “science and art of government; political affairs or life or principles etc.” Politics consists…
Editorial: Mr. President, Sanitize the Oil Sector
Successive Nigerian governments have deliberately created and left open a system of mammoth shadow revenue taps in the nation’s oil sector. The Federal Government has refused to address the urgent…
President Jonathan`s 2015 Agenda: Where Obasanjo Missed The Point (1)
Chief Obasanjo’s 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan is so well known that it deserves no preambles here. In discussing this topic, I find myself in a state of discomfiture…
Jonathan and his promise of jobs: Beyond rhetoric
As is common with most politicians, especially heads of government, they are full of promises, but usually the end of the matter is worse than its beginning, and Nigeria has…
Editorial: Scandalous 2014 Aviation Ministry Budget
After splashing N643 million on 54 cars in 2013, including N255 million for two bullet proof vehicles by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for the Aviation Minister Stella Oduah,…
My New Year Resolution–To Steal More
“Kowa ya dade yaga dadau”. – Hausa (Whoever live long, will see wonders). This is my first admonition for the year 2014, and permit me to share my New Year…
A True Story
The best stories are usually the true ones. The following story is not only true but it is also revealing and remarkable. Please fasten your seatbelts, sit back and patiently…
Awada Kerikeri: APC as Obasanjo’s advocate
In January 2009, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar visited his former boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, after years of political acrimony between them. And, recently, General Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju…