Virtually no sector in Nigeria isn’t undergoing some form of crisis or another. In fact, crisis or chaos has become the norm rather than the exception. For more than half of Nigeria’s population, the current state of affairs is the rule and dysfunctionality is customary rather than transient. For many young Nigerians, dishonesty, disloyalty, theft, mannerlessness and greed are virtues and assets rather than vices because all they have seen in the past 30 or so years, all they have ever known, has been the opposite of what is permissible in saner climes.

By Patrick Dele Cole THE role of the US in Iraq is rather unedifying. President Bush encouraged Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to attack Iran in a bitter war. He invited hundreds of Iraqi scientists to the US to train and research in nuclear technology. When Secretary of State, John Kerry said: “We can’t let politics and mythology […]

Olusegun Mimiko who recently stepped down as a two-term governor of Ondo State is the most experienced of practicing politicians in Yorubaland today. He was twice appointed Health Commissioner by different governors, served as Secretary to Ondo State Government before he was appointed a Federal Minister, a position he resigned from to contest the Ondo State governorship election in 2007 running against the late Dr. Segun Agagu at micro level. His real contest at macro level was against then Emperor Olusegun Obasanjo who insisted he must not contest the polls.

WRITING about the needs of the Igbos or Igbo aspirations, whether in terms of what would make the Igbos happy (or unhappy), is not a difficult thing in any manner.

A lady born with sickle cell anaemia, Popoola Temitope, who is presently struggling to walk and living in pains needs urgent assistance from well-meaning Nigerians, government and the corporate society to help raise the sum of N5 million so that she could undergo a re-corrective surgery in India.