Can it be a confirmation that in Nigeria, democracy is the government of the rich, by the rich, in the name of the poor?

IN Africa, we welcome any visitor even if he is not a friend. We offer our visitors water and a seat.  That is why the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UK,   Theresa May was welcome when she came out visiting South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. Also, for those who are our friends, we go looking for them even if their homes are at the other end of the world. An African proverb says it is someone you do not love, you make excuses that you are unable to visit his home because it is far away. That is why it did not surprise me that all but one African country, were  this week in China for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, FOCAC.

JOURNALISTS in the country under the banner of  the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ,  poured into the streets of our country on Thursday, August 30,  to protest against the unceasing attacks,  incarceration and intimidation of journalists by security agencies.

SENATE President,  Bukola Saraki, a light heavy weight politician has punched his way up the political ladder with memorable  knockouts. His rise is so phenomenal that he has quickly moved to the heavy weight category.

THE African leaders journey  to Beijing, for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, FOCAC, holding from September 3-4, 2018, actually began fifty three years ago. That was at the infancy of our independence. In 1960 alone, seventeen African countries had gained independence. Tanzania became independent in 1961 and Zambia, four years later. Both faced the same challenge of development,  lifting Africans out of poverty, and the underdevelopment foisted on them by colonialism.  

WHEN I read the Interim Investigation Report of Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, NPM, mni to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on the August 7 invasion of the National Assembly by the Department of State Services, DSS,  I concluded  it was a fake document.

AMERICAN, Richard Russell, 29, was what you could call a normal guy. Married with a son, he was a Horizon Air ground control staff, directing aircraft and handling baggage.

NIGERIANS are in a box.  They are boxed in. But it must be admitted that the political elite who are responsible, are in the box with us.

THE Ghanaian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms.  Shirley Ayorkor-Botchwey was this  Monday  in Abuja on a charm offensive. Her visit came four days after Nigerian traders in Ghana reported that the envisaged attacks on them by members of the Ghana Union Traders Association, GUTA, had commenced  at  the Suame Magazine Market, in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

ONE of the first things I learnt about leadership is the William Shakespeare  quotation that: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”