Crisis Management, Mistaken For Governance
First, I congratulate Blessing Okagbare, who won Nigeria’s two medals at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow. They were our first since she was a baby. Team Nigeria limped…
Editorial: American Jamboree by Delta State Legislators
Some stories are best told straight. In a season of the absurd, Delta State joined the inglorious band of perfidy following reports that the entire Delta State House of Assembly,…
Buhari is unfit to be president
With Buhari’s recent announcement to contest the 2015 presidential elections, his cantankerous online supporters and other diehard Buharimaniacs have been reenergized in their strident campaign to market him as the…
FG VS ASUU: What Manner of (Re)-Negotiaition?
What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country…ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and…
Editorial:Nigeria’s Misplaced Quest for UN Security Council Seat
At a time when governance in Nigeria has become a competition to parrot “transformation” while everything is done to hunker the country backwards; and with the Presidency obsessed with the…
What Obama should tell Jonathan
The recent report that US President Barrack Obama has invited Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss security issues is good for Nigeria. Regardless of what anti-imperialists will say, the United…
Wike Has Lost The Rivers Power Tussle
It is not gentlemanly the statement that was credited to Barr Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the junior Minister of Education on August 3, 2013, at his Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI) rally…
The trial of Reuben Abati
I recently attended the burial ceremony of the mother of the spokesman of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati, in Abeokuta. I had many years earlier similarly attended that of…
Aba, T.A Orji & the Rest of US
Aba! Our Aba. A town commercially and economically endowed that is likened as the Japan of Africa, whose residents could fabricate anything to mimic its originality. Aba (the Enyimba City)…
Rejoinder:Of Presidential Crybabies and Kindergarten President
The statement issued by Reuben Abati the official spokesperson for the presidency on 11TH of August 2013 criticizing the interim chairman of the APC for describing the Jonathan government as…