FG and Umahi’s roads to hell – 2
By Dele Sobowale The Benin-Agbor-Asaba highway to sudden death symbolizes everything wrong with how the Federal Government and Minister David Umahi have been managing Nigerian roads. The horrors of that road are being replicated everywhere – as will be demonstrated shortly. Umahi obviously is the wrong man for one of the most important assignments. Nigeria’s […]
Senate ignores calls for change
I’m told that the Land Use bill failed because of strong opposition from Northern senators, who fear resource control “through the back door”; which basically means that they want to withhold justice from oil-producing states
A man in her next life
IT was not the first time she was saying it, but it hit me differently this time. I was on my way home from the Lagos Airport and had been dropped off at our residential estate gate, not too far from where Evans, the kidnap kingpin, lived. From there, my wife said someone would be on hand to take me home.
Transition from President Zuma to President Zuma
IN one swing, South African President Jacob Zuma swept the governments of his country since independence in 1994, into the dust bin of history. Describing the past two decades as those of waste, Zuma condemned the administrations of the legendary Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlante and his own.
Suspension virus: A forcible rape on Democracy (1)
UNARGUABLY, members of even the best-run organisations cannot always escape moments of profound crises, when they must break faith either with the team or with themselves. These crises occur when the leadership of the group suddenly – or gradually – embarks on a source of action that is incompatible with members’ private ethical standards or judgments.
Fallacy of LG autonomy
AFTER the local government election which took place in Lagos last weekend, I was amused that analysts on some television stations were complaining about voter apathy. It was already known that the ruling All Progressives Congress , APC, would “sweep” the polls, why bother?
