We are in an era where a serving National Youth Service Corps member is at the same time a serving minister, where somebody nominated as a minister claims he sat for five subjects in his senior secondary school certificate examination, SSCE, obtained only two credits with which he secured admission into the university, and yet, the Senate shamelessly cleared him. Today, he sits in the Federal Executive Council, FEC, as a minister.

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Examine the cloth worn by the man who promises to dress you up – African proverb THE coup d’etat in Niger Republic is re-focussing bright light on an awkward debate that had existed on the fringes of academic discussions on the utility and viability of the democratic system outside regions which had sustained it for […]

It was just that the effect of it was very minimal compared to the amount we are told went into sustaining the oil subsidy bogey. The best part of the subsidy money went into the pockets and bank accounts of shadowy players in the oil sector, including oil marketers that are too quick to make Nigerians groan by their Shylock-like ways. 

THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, is saddled with three mandates. The first is the classical or labour mandate – fighting for the interests of the working class. The second is the social mandate – protecting the interests of the masses in an environment where the ruling elite have increasingly become more selfish, corrupt and incompetent than ever.