“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, he also believes to be true” – Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, p 224 If you honestly believe that the Lagos-Calabar Road will be completed in seven years, then you probably have rocks where brains should be; and you represent one of the […]

“No one whose stomach is totally empty can be persuaded that his need is not for food but for entertainment” – Professor John K Galbraith Tears came to my eyes when I read recently that the World Bank (which some of us love to hate) announced that it was spearheading the effort to raise $300 […]

“Leadership is the ability to define issues without aggravating problems” – Warren Bennis, VBQ p 125. I spent my 80th birthday in a prayer and fasting retreat with four others who were also eighty. In my journeys throughout Nigeria since 1974, I moved with two obsessions. One, given a chance, I wanted to know which […]

We are at the precipice and we must admit that Tinubu is not responsible,he inherited the calamity about which fellow Nigerians have been warned in the last eight years

Few chosen successors have been willing to play the figure-head role assigned to them by the former leader

Cash scarcity reduces demand for some basic commodities; transporters bring less; prices escalate on account of reduced supply and demand plummets even further – ad infinitum “Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man is starving” – O’Henry, 1862-1910. Sometime ago, your Vice […]

What was announced as a Public-Private project to be entirely financed by the contractor will, after all call for expenditure of over N1tn of public funds

“141 terror cases, 214 kidnappings recorded in eight weeks” – IG (Report, April 5, 2024) “Debt servicing gulps Ondo, Osun, two others allocations” (Report, April 5, 2024) The report went on to state: “Most of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee funds for Osun, Ondo, Kaduna and Cross Rivers states will be used in servicing debts […]

Permit me to declare upfront that the trip to Adamawa State was entirely financed by me; and the State Government provided no guided tour. This is my honest assessment of one of the least reported states in Nigeria. The N400, 000 bill was, to me, money well-spent. I will do it again if the opportunity presents […]

The Senate President could simply have ignored the “accuser” because in reality there is no valid allegation.

Today, kidnapping people is Nigeria’s fastest growing business sector, the returns on investment – usually a worthless life – are astonishing

Facts speak for themselves”. That is what most of us have been led to believe. But like most common statements, when put to the test, it has not always been the case. Back in the 1970s, working with a research firm in Boston, USA, we set out to put that statement to the test. Actors were […]

Every Nigerian now knows that the Buhari government obtained N30 trillion under Ways and Means, W&M, from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in eight years. Every naira represented pre-meditated economic sabotage; particularly when the transactions were undertaken without prior approval of the National Assembly, NASS, as required by another Section of the CBN Act.

“Many people sold their boys and girls for a little rice…Hunger stalked us…People of all ages began to die….Everyone had to live with half-empty stomachs …People started looting, searching for food” -Bijoykrishna, survivor of the Bengal famine in 1943 (BBC, February 23, 2023) The old man talking is reported to be 102 years old and one […]

“Caesar, beware, the ides of March” – William Shakespeare, 1546-1616 As Shakespeare rendered it, in his famous book, JULIUS CAESAR, the Roman Emperor (Jagaban if you wish) was at the peak of his powers; without realising that a plot against him was in progress. A seer approached Caesar to warn the most powerful man on […]