The on-going trial of some former Governors for corruption while in office is quite thought provoking for what it reveals- that the anti-corruption war in Nigeria is a cyclical unending relay race. Looking at where we are coming from, the situation is no doubt frustrating.

In 2000 Naomi Klein, an award-winning American journalist published a 490-page ‘anti-corporate branding’ book titled ‘No Logo’ in which she exposed a global underworld of a new crop of corporate predators who…

A graduate of English from the Lagos State University, her compassion for the talking and hearing impaired has laid upon her a new goal- to ensure they are shown love and given a sense of belonging…

Everywhere you look, the ruling classes, represented by the ruling party – at all levels – have become the enemies of the people – meaning the nation itself. It has taken over two thousand years for the people of the world to understand that nobody, and I mean nobody, can be trusted with power for too long without breeding corruption…

I joined the Vanguard in September of 1985 (I was 46) and I resigned in 2004, December. I was 65 years. I worked at the Vanguard for 19 years. I had the mind to stay there for nine or ten years, but I ended up spending double the time I had intended…

Several weeks ago when the movement called Occupy Wall Street began in the United States of America, it is not surprising that people in different parts of the world have adopted the same format to protest the widening existential gap between the rich and the poor in various countries.

Shrinking describes the action or reaction of diminishing in size in response to a stimulus. A shrinking violet is a term that describes a person who recoils or withdraws from people or situations as a direct response to an action or a series of actions over time just like the flower from which the term originated.

I have refrained from participating in the drug scandal saga that unfolded in the past two weeks, involving a fellow actor who has brought joy to many homes through his work on television, the Yoruba movie. It was with disappointment that not a few of us received the news of his arrest by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

There has been a systemic underestimation of the achievements of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in Edo State to the extent that newspaper advertorials are easily published to rubbish whatever he claims to his credit. Amongst the several presentations by these respective “visioners”, who in their moralizing tedium claim to be representing the aggregate views of Edolites, the position of Edo Collectives on Oshiomhole’s NUT award is at best indubitably misleading.

I did a short stint as a fashion magazine editor and it was one of the most surreal experiences I’ve had in my life. Production itself was a delight, what I could never get a hang of was the intrigue and backstabbing. We spent more time engaged in office politics than we did in creating the product. Anyways, that’s not the moral of today’s story.

Today, the Executive Board of Nigeria Football Federation will take position on the decision of their Technical Committee.

THE absurdity of Samson Siasia remaining as coach of the Eagles shows in the puerile defences for one of the most glaring instances of a Nigerian setting out to insult the sensibilities of other Nigerians in a matter that holds great prospects for regulating future conduct in the public sphere.

I WAS in the United States when Moammar Gaddafi finally went to meet his Maker last week. And even though Americans have been his staunchest adversaries over the years, the Americans around me did not jubilate because they were so profoundly shocked by the savage manner in which he passed away.

I AM taking time off from the subsidy debate to discuss lighter matters. Lighter in as far as they do not evoke the same passions, but by no means are these matters less important. You see, I don’t understand why the removal of “subsidy” must equate to increase in fuel prices.

MANY theories are associated with both economic and political developments in many developing countries, especially in Africa. Most development plans follow their European counterparts in formulation and execution.