FG and Umahi’s roads to hell – 2
By Dele Sobowale The Benin-Agbor-Asaba highway to sudden death symbolizes everything wrong with how the Federal Government and Minister David Umahi have been managing Nigerian roads. The horrors of that road are being replicated everywhere – as will be demonstrated shortly. Umahi obviously is the wrong man for one of the most important assignments. Nigeria’s […]
Another station in life
In our march through time, we move from one life’s station to another. We acknowledge these movements in many ways.
For Dora, the sky is the limit
Dora Akunyili turned a low profile job at the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to a high profile one. She also went on to hold her own at the Federal Ministry of Information. She was one of the best known ministers of the realm. Before that, she had wanted to be a Vice-President of Nigeria.
Books & films: Introducing kids to violence
Two five-year-old kids who had been quietly playing with their toys in the garden of a block of flats began to struggle for possession of a toy computer set. One of the boys was a cousin’s son, and we were sitting on a bench nearby, watching them.
Military option won’t work in Abidjan
IN the old Western movies, there were usually the ‘good men’ who were on the side of the law or justice. On the other hand were the ‘bad men’ who were usually outlaws.
Naija style politics
NOW that the latest election season is fully underway, I’m reminded of a very perceptive comment that my ex-husband (Dominic Midgley, an English journalist) made about the Nigerian political scene when he lived in Abuja some years ago.
