No more roads to Turkestan
IT would have taken more than a miracle for the national honours to be awarded without criticisms. What weakens present criticisms is that the proponents pretend the standards for the awards are new or that the high number of awards is necessarily an abuse.
From Radiculopathy to Myomectemy: Nigeria, her expatriate rulers
And so, once again, the wife of a serving president flies off to Europe in search of a cure for a non-life threatening problem.
We won’t ignore calls for national confab – Jonathan
Leading elderstatesmen and activists, who, for over 20 years have been clamouring for a national dialogue to address perennial socio-economic and political problems plaguing the country will no longer wait for too long to realise their quest. Reason: President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured that his administration would not ignore the calls.
Fuel: More scarcity looms as JEPTFON threatens shut down
THE current scarcity of petroleum products being experienced in many parts of the country may get worse, if at the close of work today, the Federal Government has not ordered the removal of security operatives at the Integrated Oil and Gas Depot, in Apapa, Lagos.
Sanusi’s Central Bank of the few
IN the last few weeks since what I here call Central Bank of the Few under Lamido Sanusi announced its intention to introduce N5,000 bill into the economy, Nigerians have variously cajoled, begged, pleaded with and even threatened the Bank and its management against the planned introduction.
Unpatriotic Nigerians behind fuel subsidy protest – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday blamed last January’s protest over the removal of fuel subsidy in Lagos on manipulation by certain Nigerians who wanted the retention of the status quo of corruption in that sector.
