SCHOLASTIC write up sir. Oh there was a country called Nigeria! It died many years ago. It is about time we discuss the terms of our co-existence if not we are a nation sitting on a time bomb that might explode some day. Our leaders don’t mean well for her people. Your generation perhaps have failed this country. It is about time we shift our paradigm —Augustin Odheni

AS I landed in Abuja on February 9, from Lagos, a senior journalist on board with me wore a pensive mood as he said the following words to me: “I am pan-Nigerian but certain things shake your faith like the advertisement in today’s edition of the Daily Trust”. It was an Obituary on page 46 of the paper by 70 members of ASP COURSE 14 for the late Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Francis Mobolaji Odesanya.

THE Soviet state was born  in 1917 when the  revolutionary Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian czar and established a socialist state in the territory that had once belonged to the Russian empire. In 1922, Russia proper joined its far-flung republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The first leader of the  Soviet state was the Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin,one of the greatest  thinkers of the last century

I could be convinced if I were like you. If I could beg others to change their minds, begging would convince me, too. But I’m as immovable as the northern star, whose stable and stationary quality has no equal in the sky. The sky shows countless stars. They’re all made of fire, and each one shines.

HALF of students who went to the University (University of Ife and later Obafemi Awolowo University) in the late 70s up till the early part of this millennium would not forget the name Dr. Dipo Fashina, that legendary teacher of Logic in the philosophy department and a rare gift to humanity.

THOSE who were in Lagos around 1991-2 would remember Forum Finance located on Allen Avenue in Ikeja,a company that employed a number of young men and women in flashy cars going about town duping the gullible of their hard earned money .Its famous advert was “Forum go double your money!”. It paid outrageous returns to its earlier investors and this made many fools to part with their money . By the time the bubble burst,it was sorrow and tears for thousands of unwary who lost their fortunes to the Ponzi scheme .

NIGERIAN leaders are not known for telling the truth but sometimes the truth spills out of their mouths and they find it difficult to take it back. And since they are not gifted to give quotable quotes, such slips become their immortal words.

WHEN I wrote “Budget Without Planning ” weeks back in this column about the hollow ritual we have made of a serious business , I had no idea of what was coming our way in the 2017 version.

By Yinka Odumakin Besides, it is not difficult to forecast that the work of government in Nigeria under a unitary constitution is bound to become unduly complex, inextricably tangled, extremely unwieldy and wasteful, and productive of disunity and discontent amongst the people. Unless we have veritable supermen at the helm of affairs, the administrative machinery […]

THE Nigerian Senate last Thursday put paid to the “anti-corruption ” career of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. EFCC, Ibrahim Magu on the strength of a damning security report authored by the Department of State Security, DSS. The DSS is directly under the presidency that nominated him.