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    How Not to Tango in Lagos

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow This is no storm in a tea cup. Lagos is at a standstill. The streets are clogged by vehicles in motion but no movement. Motor parks are mushrooming in unauthorised places. Commercial minibus drivers now conduct race teases as they ride on street […] More

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    N2 Per Litre Tax for Sports

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Our under-17 lads deserve a million full-throated guffaws for conquering the world the fifth time in soccer at their age level. Please sustain the applause and rub it a bit on President Muhammadu Buhari for always enjoying good luck in sports contests. He […] More

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    Development Is Not Staccato

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It must have been with great reluctance that President Muhammadu Buhari attended a so-called India-Africa summit in New Delhi. Let us hold brief for the President here that he was there because he did not want to be seen as non-conformist. India gathering […] More

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    Waiting for Buhari’s Axe

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow President Muhammadu Buhari must come to our rescue. Telephone service providers are wringing our necks. One Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, a rent collector, is breaking our backs. Both illegally extort customers. They receive money for services not rendered. It is more than that […] More

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    Buhari’s Eyes for Belles

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Why this noise above the din about the inadequate inclusion of women in Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet? There are many women who would reject unearned rewards. My big cousin, Mrs. Omobola Onajide, the first female electronic journalist in Nigeria, is that type. She is […] More

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    We Opt for Snail Speed to Prosperity

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Those who allege that President Muhammadu Buhari is slow are right, viewing it with the lens of the People’s Democratic Party’s demolition squad of the last 16 years. Buhari is really slow not to tread the destructive route that has made Nigeria a […] More

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    Bamanga Tukur Still a “Global Villager”

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Some of his old friends of my generation would call him in those glory days of Nigeria’s renaissance, “Lagos Boy.” He really represented the elements of that title in his youth because he knew that city and its people inside out. He was […] More

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    How to Fatten Nation’s Cow

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow    When did wealth become the determinant to rule in what generically is called Yorubaland today? Was there a word known as “Yoruba” at the time Oduduwa ruled Ile-Ife? Was Odua an Ooni? Reports in some journals are perverting the history of Ile-Ife […] More

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    End World Bank, IMF, SAP Regime

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Sometime in 1970, General Yakubu Gowon, in his true element of frankness, returned from a trip to Equatorial Guinea and told journalists at the airport of his wish of a Nigeria that would be a pride of Africa in all respects. Click here […] More

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    The Acrobatic Nwabueze

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Internet has been awash with alleged improprieties of some South-west former office holders. Some are accused of land grabbing and financial irregularities. Others are said to have signed certificates of occupancy for lands after they left office. How one would wish these […] More

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    Busybody Troubleshooters

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow President Muhammadu Buhari swore to uphold the constitution and laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria last May 29. On that same day he made a covenant with Nigerians to fight corruption and improve their living conditions. Buhari has not spent 100 days […] More

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    Success and Destructive Egotism

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Success could be cruel because it destroys its beneficiary if one is not properly prepared to receive the new status. The aplomb and gaiety that accompany success inebriate the so-called lucky ones. It is not only artistes that fall prey to the grandeur […] More

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