So the crowd that had been captured as party men at a political rally was in fact a football crowd in a football field! Oh yes, we were being done in with a photo trick! So when recently I read in the papers that there was going to be an Action Congress rally in Benin City and the PDP warned all and sundry that thugs would be imported into that arena and that the police should stop what might degenerate to a breakdown of law and order, I called my sister-in-law Safu who is a woman leader and told her what I had read in the papers.
Take stock: From this very point, this instant, not yesterday or last year. Begin a detailed inventory of all that you have, all that you owe, and all that you are owed, all that you can raise. This is not a mental task, get a book and start writing, you need to know your absolute worth to the last kobo. People often find that they are worth a lot more than they think when they take the time to go through their stores, old papers and documents.
AS Mrs T opened the door to her living-room, five year-old Jack and six year old Mary rushed forward to bid her welcome; helping her with her handbag and briefcase. “Thank you, children. It’s nice to be home.
Oyetunde gives the impression that he is the second resurrection of Jesus ibn Maryam, the messiah (p.8). However, there is nothing in his work that shows that he has both the intellectual and spiritual wherewithal to assume the role he is claiming for himself.
It is a measure of the shamelessness of our elite and the institutions that fuel their values that Chief George could be awarded a national honour in our country and he could later sue some newspapers on account of the indictment report I prepared against him —Malam Nuhu Ribadu
Well, since you and I are neophytes in this perennial itch of “deregulation”, I believe it is high time someone competent stepped out to scratch deep into the issue which is uppermost in our minds, to wit, the price of fuel nationwide.
As long as you are willing, and available, there will always be a man ready to “scratch your back”. But move out of that situation, and perceive it from afar. I mean, disentangle yourself from the situation, and imagine that it was happening to someone else. It is nothing but filth. Yorubas call it “abasha”.
We are already a hopelessly “deregulated” society. Everything about us is no longer, by any means, regulated. Government, politicians and economic miracle workers believe that the only way we can enjoy a better life in Nigeria is to be economically socially and politically deregulated.
WITH all its pretentions to international democracy, liberty and the brotherhood of man, France on Tuesday October 27, 2009 opened its presidential doors to Mauritanian coup plotter, General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz. The General had on August 6, 2008 overthrown the democratically elected President, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
I wrote in this column last week why the world foot-ball governing body, FIFA, cannot publicly condemn the shortcomings at the on-going Under 17 World Cup.
