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FG and Umahi’s roads to hell – 2

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 […]
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Gubernatorial grouses

Gubernatorial grouses

I HAVE gradually become extremely disillusioned about certain aspects of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s regime. As I’ve said a couple of times in this column, he has too many unimpressive aides and ministers…and has not been sufficiently dynamic or inspirational since he took over from his late former boss, Yar’Adua.

The Northern question revisited: What does the North want?

The Northern question revisited: What does the North want?

In my previous article where I examined the problems of ‘Question‘ in the context of ethnic politics in Nigeria, I came to the conclusion that the ‘Ibo Question‘ is being addressed through placement of Ibos in strategic positions on merit. For example, a new Chief of Army Staff has been appointed and an Ibo Inspector-General of Police has just retired.

OLUSEGUN AJOSE: Ten Years On

OLUSEGUN AJOSE: Ten Years On

TEN years is an awfully long time for any man to plunge neck-deep into the murky waters of professional boxing and remain therein, and by which period preliminary layers of the dreaded scar tissues that is the boxers traditional curse have become considerably manifest.

Who is afraid to sign?

Who is afraid to sign?

THERE is something that nobody, even the greatest iconoclast, can take away from this National Assembly – the sheer courage to venture into an area of its responsibility that was hitherto regarded as sacrosanct.

To have known Enahoro

To have known Enahoro

AT the beginning of 1990, things were pretty bad for the country; it was reeling under directionless military dictatorship. Some Nigerians like Tanko Yakassai, Uche Chukwumerije, R B K Okafor, Frederick Fasehun, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Mahmud Waziri were convinced that something needed to be done fast to save the country from the rapacious military and possible disintegration.