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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.

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.

Buhari’s superficial Igbo appeasement (1) – Ochereome Nnanna

DAN Nwanyanwu, the pioneer National Chairman of the Labour Party, was on Africa Independent Television, AIT, on Tuesday morning and he said something that conformed to what I have always believed: the person looking for power is hardly the same as the person on the seat of power. So many variables intervene to bring about […]

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