LAST year, I was invited by LanreIdowu, of Diamond Publications, to review a book he edited, on the late Chief Anthony Enahoro.
WHEN Chief Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria is wobbling, he probably means that this is not the type of Nigeria he would have liked to bequeath to a godson.
A LOT of young people who do not understand what the Boko Haram orgy of killings is all about have been asking questions. Why is the Islamic sect killing people like this? Why are southerners, especially the Igbos who have been often targeted in churches or meeting places not staging reprisal attacks in the South? Does it mean that the South loves peace and Nigeria more than the North?
IN the last two weeks or thereabout I have been compelled to address a matter that I’m sure columnists and others who frequently write have to face: the question of what subject to write on. In the early hours of Wednesday 25th of January, I had woken up to see the live broadcast of President Barack Obama’s third State of the Union address.
THE respected former Director-General of National Security organization (NSO) and a former top policeman, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi recently made a strong case for the introduction of police formations to be controlled and managed by State Governments.
LAST week, the Minister for Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, was meeting with some stakeholders in trade and investment, and I presume, some investors too. As usual the issue of cost of doing business in Nigeria came up.
THE media, especially the print media, is often the worst offender when it comes to reducing vision and mission statements into labels and mantras. Vision 20-20 is replaced with Vision 20-20-20 and there is another symbol to be treated as if it is the Policy Documents, too bulky to be subjected to critical review.
AT last, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) met and spoke out since the Boko Haram terrorism received a turbo-charged boost from quarters that are gradually being exposed by our security agencies. The Forum’s tongue had been stolen by the cat (so it seemed) as the Al Qaeda-inspired foreign agents bombed, killed and destroyed in parts of Nigeria’s Muslim North.
In last week’s article, we discussed in detail the operations of a deregulated foreign exchange market; we described the structure of the market and the process for redeeming public sector forex allocations at the commercial banks and subsequent payment for imports of both private and public sector importers.
The removal from office, the week before, of Hafiz Ringim as Inspector General of Police (IGP) was no doubt overdue. Soothsayers and prayer warriors saw it coming. We suspect that Ringim himself may have seen it because it appears that even the blind were able to see it.
There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner, but there are one or two whose death would break my heart.
