Uncommon energy, by Patrick Omorodion
To be a goal getter in any endeavour, you must have a strength of character that enables you choose “the harder right over the easier wrong.” People with such characters show quiet resilience, emotional restraint and integrity when it is difficult to do so. They tend to exhibit uncommon energy in doing things to achieve […]
Lying to live long
Whether you award yourself 60 or 16 years, it is the Nigerian people who ultimately decide. Happily, they have discovered the formula for regime change
Our elections, still a façade
A woman votes and gets N5,000. There is no greater campaign than that. She will be the one to pull out every member of the community to come out and receive the wonders! Who will stop it – the police, SSS and other law enforcers, who had been settled the previous night?
“Democracy” without democrats
It is in the periodic exercise of this power that the ‘people’ assert themselves as the repository and conferrer of political authority
Re: Et tu, General
My advice to General Danjuma is that he made a name as a respected army General and also in government. He should please try to maintain that respect up to the end of his life as respect is earned not conferred
Youth candidates: Promoting competence over hype
Primordial sentiments of allegiance to religion, ethnicity and surface issues over competence and ideas have wrecked Nigeria
