From last week, continues the narrative of how the Obasanjo regime responded to a strike action organised by the NLC over fuel subsidy by inuagurating a committee in 2000 made up of eminent Nigerians to resolve the issue   THE committee was headed by my friend, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, while the secretary of the committee was Chief […]

“It is totally false to suggest, as we are apt to do, that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the world. Nigerians are corrupt because the system under which they live today makes corruption easy and profitable; they will cease to be corrupt when corruption is made difficult and inconvenient….The trouble with […]

From last week, continues Professor Ihonvbere’s quote from the foreward of his book: Standing Tall, published in March 2005. This also concludes the treatise on the transition of the old National Anthem to a new one and the  roles played by different individuals in this process. A third problem is that Nigerians, over the last four […]

From last week, continues the narrative of the transition of the old National Anthem to a new one, the  roles played by different individuals in this process, including Professor Julius Ihonvbere, one of Obasanjo’s speech writers as president. While Mr. Ad’Obe Obe published a book, A New Dawn, in three volumes, Professor Ihonvbere published Standing […]

From last week, continues the narrative of the transition of the old National Anthem to a new one, including the roles played by different individuals in this process during the Obasanjo military regime. GENERAL Olusegun Obasanjo,  who was then Head of State, accepted the work and modified it. In September 1976, he decreed that all […]