TRULY, everyone has an underlying philosophy of life – even those to whom the subject of philosophy is anathema. On his arrival at the Edo State Revenue House some 68 months ago, Chief Oseni Elamah made it clear that the day you arrive at a place is the same day you begin to plan your exit. That explains in large part why, throughout his stay in office, no file ever stayed on his table overnight.

“We must strive to produce a true Peoples Constitution so that one day we will have a Constitution which will truly promote national unity by firstly identifying our diversity and making it a source of strength rather than weakness”.

IF there is one area in which the Buhari administration has consistently showed itself up as politically unsophisticated and fallen short of democratic values, it is in its handling of issues bordering on human rights. The administration has generally demonstrated a high level of unresponsiveness and disinterest in matters concerning individuals, groups and sections of the country it does not agree with.

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 […]