It’s not heroic to accept defeat, it’s heroic to chase away a loser who has rejected the will of the people

The truth is that despite Buhari’s anti corruption stance, policemen will continue to extort motorists in 2017 in plain public view. The government is utterly helpless

The fight against corruption, besides that against boko haram, is about the only thing the government has started in earnest

This page was originally reserved entirely for the second part of the article which started last week warning Fellow Nigerians about the escalating religious and sectarian conflict starting in Kaduna state and which will soon affect all of us. But, some opportunities come once in a life time and they change our programmes for us.

Nigerian politicians are not a moral lot. And our political field, unfortunately, has no hedges. Without a political culture , without the guidance of tradition, without institutions, riotous baser instincts can roam unconstrained. Politics is a dirty game. But the exceptional contempt our politicians have for ethical bounds makes our politics unbearably filthy. Scandals are now mundane. A populace gifted with elastic spirits has been taking unending manifestations of depravity in their famished strides. But they won’t stop plumbing new depths. And now it’s Jimoh .

Cameron doesn’t understand our uniquely complex system, we can’t prize ourselves out of that slavish sentimentality

Fayose’s understanding of the immunity conferred on him by the constitution is filled with delusions

Those who killed the woman are not Muslims.”Agreed, they may be pickpockets

Jero is a deity. In church, at PTA meetings, and when he condescends to his town union meetings, he conjures unfathomable dignity. Not the glory of politicians that fades quicker than cheap ‘ankara’ but a permanent invocation of raw awe. Once in a while, at the old boys’, he lets them have the privilege of his scarce humanity. Only a few of his classmates still remember he was never a genius. JB was inconspicuous. Jeroboam, the Justice, is a masquerade.

The court is a novel attempt at setting standards and checking impunity. The court is therefore morally indispensable in social craters and dark spots where local authorities lack the willingness or the capacity to bring to book principalities and powers, committing egregious evil against humanity, from hitherto unassailable towers and sanctuaries