“The young shall grow” is the name of one of those transport companies with buses ever present on Nigerian roads. And the old will die. It is simple syllogism that there is nothing permanent on earth, except the air we breathe. As hard as ‘man’ tries to conserve nature, it is tampered with, even in…
SAP: Largade Must Apologise
They could not have been our new friends from Washington. Did Christine Largade, the mortician, come with a bell to conduct Nigeria’s final economic funeral rite? What hog wash was she uttering when the Breton Wood syndicate, in most of the last 29 years, supervised the destruction of what took our nationalists tears, sweat and…
Yawning Credibility Gap in Media
President Muhammadu Buhari spoke frankly to Nigeria without frills and embellishment. It took one back memory lane and invoked the images of men like Obalemi Awolowo, Nwafor Orizu, Humphrey Omo-Osagie, Adegoke Adelabu, Aminu Kano, Michael Okpara and Murtala Muhammed in public life. Like personages just mentioned, Buhari did not make empty promises. He was down-to-earth…
The People’s Charter
They want a magician as their leader. But Houdini is no more to pull tricks out of the bag for them. President Muhammadu Buhari is no magician and does not feast on illusions. He believes in the real world that takes form from natural order. The inimitable Samuel Ogbemudia once asked whether six months…
Need for New Agenda
One reminisces events of the dying 2015 with mixed feelings. To recollect the many odious happenings of the year is to push President Muhammadu Buhari to race hell-for-leather to mete severe justice to those who have degraded Nigeria so badly with unimaginable brigandage. Their names are: Theft, larceny, stealing, looting, pillaging and accessory to those…
Privatisation’s Swan Song
One tires of the insipid froth in defence of a crooked plot gone awry, specifically the Nigerian privatisation fiasco. The foreign marketers of the product have since quietly stopped the barn-storming crusade from Washington, but not the insecure middlemen in Nigeria, who are still waddling in their tomfoolery. I exposed long ago that the World…
How Not to Tango in Lagos
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 sidewalks and kerbs. The sidewalks have been overrun too by hawkers who…
N2 Per Litre Tax for Sports
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 christened them Golden Eaglets in 1985 when Sebastian Imasuen-Brodericks took the first…
Development Is Not Staccato
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 our leaders under a roof and behaving to them like a super…
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