Attah @ 80: His cup of glory overflows
History would record that in November 2018, a man called Victor Bassey Attah in the same month clocked 80 in a nation where the life expectancy is still 54 and in sound heath
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A catalogue of failures: Read and despair
Competence, intelligence, ability don’t need a long time to manifest themselves. Similarly, the unfit very soon reveal themselves. We have had instances of leaders who took us by storm in a few months
Read More Attah @ 80: His cup of glory overflows
History would record that in November 2018, a man called Victor Bassey Attah in the same month clocked 80 in a nation where the life expectancy is still 54 and in sound health
Read More No Leah no vote should be our stand
NOTE: Now that presidential campaigns have started, I need to remind humane adults in Nigeria about one unfinished business by republishing an article on this vital matter.
Read More No Leah no vote should be our stand
Lake Chad is not the only body of water in the world shrinking in size on account of global warming. In no other country in the world has government allowed a band of murderers to run rampage all over the country because of that phenomenon
Read More Sai Baba and his men
In every community [and country] there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek power.” Saul Bellow, 1976 Nobel Prize Winner. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, p 124.
Read More The crumbling fortress in the Southwest
“From the sublime to the ridiculous, there is only one step.” Thomas Paine, 1737-1809. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 236.
Read More The crumbling fortress in the Southwest
Once upon a time (that is how stories began in our days), a King who had successfully waged war within his own very rich country and subdued all his opponents, decided to build an empire.
Read More Three reasons why Prof Adewole should go
“When those in office regard the power vested in them as personal prerogative, they invariably enrich themselves, promote their families, favour their friends….—Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s former Prime Minister.
Read More What they say and what exists
Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s chief of propaganda should know a lot about desperate men. As the Second World war ground to an end, the men who made Warsaw to see war and for war to see Warsaw were suddenly at the receiving end of violence they had unleashed on others.
Read More Humiliation of Ambode an ill-wind blowing no good for anybody
“You burn the house to roast the pig. It was the only way mankind always roasted pigs.”
Read More The mob called APC
Of all the bad habits characterising this mob ruling Nigeria at the moment, none is more annoying than their individual and collective proclivity for lying with a straight face. There is a disease called Aso Rock Diseases, ARD
Read More Tribulations of Ambode: When good performance is not enough
Something had to be done to bring some fairness into Lagos politics and I took up the challenge to do it
Read More No Leah no vote should be our stand (1)
By pitching the form for presidential candidates at N45 million, APC had already slammed the door in the face of poor or even middle class contestants
Read More Can nobody in this government tell the whole truth on important matters?
The VP had exaggerated the government’s contributions to them to the breaking pointThe FG budgeted but never delivered N500 billion to NSIP and the government has not engaged 500,000 graduates
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