“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