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More appalling APC arrogance! By Donu Kogbara

More appalling APC arrogance! By Donu Kogbara

Last week, I complained about the arrogance displayed by Dave Umahi, the Minister of Works, who has a lot of questions to answer around the mysterious death in his compound of an attractive young female nurse. This week, I will focus on another example of APC arrogance. Following a visit to the presidential villa by the […]
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‘Development versus debt peonage’

‘Development versus debt peonage’

The above title is from a paper presented by Brian Browne at an event organised, by Atayese, a Pan Odua Socio-political self determination group, in Ibadan last month, to mark the 90th birthday of distinguished Prof. Adetoun Ogunsheye.

Senate is right, customs is correct

Senate is right, customs is correct

It is indeed wrong to make rules, regulations and laws that are targeted at a set of people; it is worse when such laws and rules are retrospective. The senate was right, it is wrong for customs to backdate payment of duties on old vehicles

Adebayo, Ogbemudia: Soldier-statesmen

Adebayo, Ogbemudia: Soldier-statesmen

Nothing adds further to the significance of the lives of Robert Adeyinka Adebayo and Sam Ogbemudia other than the lives they have led, and the values that they now typify in the minds of those who have been inspired by their public service

The season of hyperbole

The season of hyperbole

Most Nigerians are indifferent to whether Buhari came back forty-nine days or forty-nine weeks after his departure from the country. What matters to them is the struggle to find jobs or, for those working already, to manage their meagre income to enable them cope with economic hardship