Stealing from the poor is Abuja’s favourite game
By Dele Sobowale Two former Ministers of Humanitarian Services – one sacked but allowed to go home and the other now on the run – symbolize how public servants in Abuja view Nigeria’s poor people. They are not to be helped; they are to be robbed. President Tinubu, like his predecessors, Jonathan and Buhari – […]
Senate in a fix over conflicting Appeal Court judgments on Emodi
Chief Alphonsus Igbeke who obtained a court judgment penultimate Thursday to remove Senator Joy Emodi from the Senate may have perfected a way upstaging legislators from his native Anambra State in the courts
Obama-A leader worth emulating
I HAVE just read a fine, thought-provoking article in Time, the American current affairs magazine. It was composed by a brilliant writer called Joe Klein, shortly after President Barack Obama achieved an epic victory by successfully pushing a radical healthcare sector reform bill he initiated through Congress (the US equivalent of our National Assembly).
In the name of the Father
WHEN I was growing up in Lagos, almost all the non- Nigerian Catholic priests I knew were Irish. They built and ran some of the best schools and were the embodiment of moral authority. It seemed that the primary profession of the Irish was priesthood. It is therefore shocking to learn that the Irish youth today has his attention turned to other calling
Distinguished or extinguished senators?
RETIRED Brigadier-General David Mark’s Senate will be three years old early in June this year. Looking back at its track record of performance (especially in the area of representation) it is difficult to compare it with the Senate that Chief Ken Nnamani led and bowed out of in 2007.
Apron strings of violence
My attention in the last fortnight has not been on the ministerial list or the passage of the 2010 Budget. As important as these and other national matters may seem, I was more preoccupied with the whirlwind of violence that is sweeping the country and threatening its very existence.
