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 – […]
Murtala’s love for Edo, Yoruba
General Murtala Mohammed knew his roots, many of us do not. There are different accounts trailing his place of origin. Official records say he was from Kurawa Quarters, Kano. Some accounts tell us he was born in Aviele in today’s Edo State. And there are those who swear the Signals officer hailed from Igbei, Auchi.
2018 Budget: Another watery soup for a sick giant?
The nation is in darkness. It needs stable Power. Mambila Hydro Plant is a major plank in our power plans. Our contribution is 15% of the total cost. That contribution is 312 billion naira. We budgeted 18 billion naira for it in 2007. In 2018, we have proposed 9.8 billion naira. Rome was not built in a day.
Our churches and their money
At least one reason we Nigerians go to church is the same reason we go to the beer parlour- there isn’t much else to do. Church is the Sunday morning equivalent of the beer parlour on Friday and Saturday nights.
PMB’s Garba Shehu: A spokesman for difficult times – Kabiru Muhammad Gwangwazo
THE Nigerian Voice has in an article called on GMB to sack six appointees charged with a number of failings.
Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp and Donald, The Trump – Ochereome Nnanna
CHARLIE Chaplin, The Tramp was a little, downtrodden man in baggy trousers with a mustache, bowler hat and carrying a cane. He was poor, powerless and bewildered. Chaplin (Charles Spencer Chaplin)seemed a lonely, vulnerable figure who tried endlessly to make sense of the world. His caricature of Adolf Hitler, the most powerful man in his generation, remains a winner to-date.
