Since the All Progressives Congress was formed, President Muhammadu Buhari and his party have given a whole new dimension to mendacity. Their capacity for dissembling, turning facts on their heads, disowning their fairy-tale promises and ruthless use of power is limitless. After every outrage they commit that goes successfully unchallenged, they become more emboldened. So…
Celebrating Barons, Mediocrity and Brigandage
Failing to plan and planning to fail are two unsavoury sides of the same bad coin. They denote incompetence and lack of understanding of the basic building blocks of dynamic change. And dynamic change is the main driver of progressive development in all spheres of human endeavours. Nigerian governments at all levels do both with…
Einstein’s Dictum and Nigeria’s Malady – Nosa Igiebor
Nigerians exemplify Albert Einstein’s classic definition of insanity. The great German physicist had said that doing the same thing, the same way all the time, and expecting a different outcome is madness. We seem hardwired to continue doing and thinking the same thing, same way forever. The constant failures that our madness produces have not…
THE DAY OF INFAMY By Nosa Igiebor
Since after the Civil War, which threatened the continuing survival of Nigeria as one nation, whenever we are faced with serious challenges, we kick them far than the road. And we just move on. We are always moving on. But the question is, moving on to where? Anytime Nigeria moves on, it’s going backwards and…
DON’T CRY FOR BUHARI
Four years ago, the popular slogan of millions of Buhari’s supporters was Febuari. It was a special coinage from the word Febuary and Buhari. And it signified to the Buhari devotees the expected victory of General Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) in the presidential election originally scheduled for Febuary 14, 2015. With the approval of the Council…
The Politricks of a Certificate
There is nothing more damaging than self-indictment. This is what President Muhammadu Buhari has inflicted on himself with the needless certificate scandal he first created in 2014 when he ran for president and won at the fourth attempt. Among the documents he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC was a sworn affidavit in…
The Oliver Twist Syndrome
These are lean times for Nigeria. And for our governors, who like to strut their gubernatorial status with imperial hubris, it couldn’t be worse. They have been reduced to carrying begging bowls to Abuja to ask for financial reprieve. Even the initial bailout that President Muhammadu Buhari approved for them about three months ago is…
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