The “market” of political jobbery is booming in the North so much that more Arewa Youth Forums are breaking out like odious rashes. The other day, another group called Concerned Arewa Youths issued death threat on any Arewa politician or leader who supports restructuring because they will be blocking their own opportunity to “chop”

Thus, in place of real production that boosts overall economic prosperity, the manifest avenues of making easy money have become multiple rate currency practices, dollarisation and domestic dollar debt market

READING that statement by the white man who was migrating to Europe, I was temporarily livid with rage. The man was a racist quite all right. But, he was also telling the truth. African leaders have destroyed all the good structures the colonial masters left. While European Houses of parliament are still as pristine as they were six hundred years ago, ours less than one hundred years are uniformly eye-sores. If governments cannot maintain the structures close to them, is it any wonder that they almost always destroy those far away? The tragedy of Apapa Wharf is another reminder that governments, Federal and States have destroyed more than they built. There are no monuments for visitors to see.

Circumstances beyond his control have placed the Acting President in the awkward situation of writing and presenting a report to himself. It is unprecedented anywhere. At any rate, that is one probe which should never have been announced publicly. No nation probes its intelligence agencies openly just to appear transparent

Unless drastic measures are taken as soon as possible to pacify the growing number of malcontents nationwide things might soon fall apart irrecoverably and guided peaceful change would no longer be feasible