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After the first part of this piece appeared last week, I received a couple of emails accusing me of several wrongdoings, from “disgracefully cherry-picking your press statement” to “being an…
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave-Lord Chancellor Baron Henry Peter. Freedom would be meaningless, if existent at all,…
Few days ago, Transparency International came out with a damning report to the effect that Nigeria is the 35th most corrupt country on earth. This was coming on the heels…
Since after the November 30, 2012 meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which was adjourned to January 8, 2013, for the purpose of picking…
The other day, a friend narrated a story, which I found stranger than fiction; the story related to the travails of a family who lost a successful and illustrious breadwinner,…
Last week I finally laid my eyes on the Transformation Agenda plan of the Goodluck Jonathan government. I thank my Nigerian compatriot who dredged it up for me. This document…
I refer to your press conference of Thursday, December 6, 2012, in which you tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to do a cleanup of President Jonathan’s anti-corruption credentials. You would agree that…
The octogenarian mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped right from inside their palace last week. Of course it had to happen in Delta State, the home of…
The official rape of Nigeria, unbeknownst to all her citizens commenced officially when President Goodluck Jonathan took over as Acting President in the twilight of Umar Yar’adua’s sickly Presidency. That…
Recently, the Nigerian press was awash with a deluge of criticisms about Pentecostal ministers buying jets and living in affluence. Beautiful! This is the same Pentecostal movement that started as…
