Some forty years ago, the state of our hospitals was one of the reasons given for the coup which toppled the Shagari government. Nigerian hospitals, declared the spokesman for the coup plotters, had become mere consulting clinics. Many of those who planned that coup are gone. Some however, are still alive. If they thought things […]

Chief Dr. Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah, who died last August, blazed into the Nigerian public space in 2011 with an unprecedented media splash celebrating his 40th birthday. He would have been 53 on September 3rd this year. Many knew him as Capital Oil man, but the legendary Ubah had notched up huge successes in various business […]

I don’t get involved with what the security services do or how. Their ways are so complex and their motives so unsearchable that sometimes you’ll be forgiven for thinking that working from the answer to the question is the standard operating procedure. Of course, you are told that whatever happens in between is in the public […]

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” — Donald A. Adams YOU might be wondering what the word, sakamanje, means in the headline of today’s discourse. On the street, sakamanje is a word that describes opaque dealings and manipulations of peoples and […]

THE addresses by world leaders speaking for eight  billion human begins, began flowing at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. The focus is on peace; how to save humanity from itself. That same day, a debate raged in the host country between its two leading presidential candidates, Donald Trump and […]