“Every government is run by liars; and nothing they say should be believed” – I F Stone, US journalist, 1907-1989. Stone was one of about a dozen columnists I read religiously when I was in the USA. He cured me of the virulent disease of columnists sending their CVs to governments in search of jobs. Nobody […]

If visitors to Akwa Ibom State now describe it as a beautiful destination, the credit belongs to Obong Attah

Tinubu, so far, deserves credit for one thing; except for those newly appointed to plum jobs, his policies and actions have not discriminated on the basis of ethnicity, zone, political affiliation, age, gender or religion.

Buhari behaved as if his election amounted to a Fulani-Muslim capture of Nigeria. Tinubu is now following the same footsteps by making appointments suggesting Yoruba conquest.

It has become clear to me that Tinubu, like Buhari, regards people belonging to minority ethnic groups as invisible Nigerians who are unworthy of top level appointments.

“Epanimondas was a monarch who knew what to do only if he knows how to go about it.” Plutarch, 45-120 AD. Epanimondas, 401-362 BC, a General of Thebes, in the Hellenic Age, was a General and statesman when nation-states were led to war by their leaders. Plutarch, one of the world’s greatest historians, in two […]

The nation was allowed to spend money not earned and which may never be earned by RMAFC which was not established to allocate debt

Umahi better be joking; otherwise he had either indicted or defamed several individuals and construction companies handling Federal Government projects now.

“God, give me the courage to change the things I can change, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; and the wisdom to know the difference” – Irish prayer. Part 1 of this article started with the same prayer and it is repeated here for the same reason. Nigeria and Tinubu need our […]

Tinubu’s emergence did not change my mind much. His Muslim-Muslim ticket was ill-considered; and the fact that he received only 37 percent of the votes vindicates the belief that majority of Nigerians were not in support.

Just as Emilokan got into Aso Rock and discovered that the Federal Government’s revenue for the next three years has been spent by Buhari, before he left, all the new governors are facing empty purses in addition to mountains of debts to pay.

It is doubtful if any of Buhari’s two Ministers of Finance would have even been short-listed for interview in any Banana Republic – let alone a nation calling itself the giant of a continent.

It is easier and better for all of us to bear in mind what is on offer – in case we are called upon to come and collect our own share of the palliatives. We should have an idea of what we are going to get; in exchange for all the inconveniences as well as risks to life and limbs going there.

“There are no desperate situations; only desperate men” – Joseph Goebbels, 1897-1945, Hitler’s propaganda chief Tinubu is the most desperate man in Nigeria today; and possibly the most desperate President on Earth right now. I read at least three books on the last days of Adolf Hitler, 1899-1945, and some of what Nigerians are experiencing […]

“There is a time in the affairs of governments when deadlock becomes total and ordinary human agencies are impotent to deal with the situation” – Harold Wilson, 1916-1995, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 81. Great Britain was caught in an economic quagmire similar to what Nigeria is now experiencing when the late British Prime […]