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Atiku is right, subsidy removal needs revisiting – 2

Atiku is right, subsidy removal needs revisiting – 2

By Dele Sobowale Some called it lunacy; others were more polite in their condemnation of the idea of government reversing itself. Few did the rational thing when confronted with a proposal on a vital public interest. Most of Atiku’s traducers were political opponents; who were afraid that the idea might just be popular and could […]
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Upward Move!

Upward Move!

Hi Readers! The ribbing I got from the gals for the way I handled my encounter with Belinda was much worse than the one I had got earlier from nanny.

Tayo, as usual, led the attack when I was summoned to her place for the gals to deliberate on the matter. Apparently, before he came to chide me for upsetting his madam, Seb had been to her place to tell her that I had been instigating his lady to leave him. She said she had tried to reason with him that I was much above doing such a thing, but he had refused to believe her. He told her that I was behaving like the dog in the manger who wouldn’t eat a bone, and was preventing other dogs from eating it.

Let’s rejoice, let’s mourn

Let’s rejoice, let’s mourn

Many are celebrating the installation of Dr. Kayode Fayemi as Governor of Ekiti State. I am celebrating too, thank you. But I am sad, very sad indeed. I am sad because I am also mourning; and you can’t be popping bottles of champagne when you are mourning.

Mjc Echeruo: Syracuse celebrates a titan

Mjc Echeruo: Syracuse celebrates a titan

Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo, poet, scholar, literary theorist and administrator is one of Africa’s leading men of ideas from the 20th century. His impact on the shaping of the ideas of the African world in modernity is vast and pointed.

The senate’s third term blow

The senate’s third term blow

‘THROWN OUT’ was a newspaper’s headline, celebrating the Senate crushing of the executive bill sneakily passed to the National Assembly on the apron of the Jega-exigency which sought to reverse an electoral feat already achieved by the NASS-namely the barring of presidential battalion of aides as delegates to presidential party primaries!

INEC: The time to speak is from now

INEC: The time to speak is from now

This piece which is essentially on how an organization should manage information is informed by the directive of the Nigerian Senate to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last week to do his work and talk less.