Igbo youth rebuff of Nigerian Army (II), by Ochereome Nnanna
How did the Igbo nation, in about 70 years, move from dominating the officer grades of the Nigerian Army to being begged to fill their quotas today? The simple answer is that the Nigerian armed and security forces have been the primary kinetic instrument used by colonial Britain and its willing vassal post-colonial Nigerian state […]
Politricks of Toll gates
THERE must be an outbreak of Keynesian economists in Nigeria. Suddenly, they are showing up on the idea of our tolling policy.
John Keynes (1883-1946) was a classical economist who had a soft spot for full employment. For him, the people must be employed, even where it meant getting them into what might ordinarily look like the absurd cycle of pit digging:
Now that everyone is a journalist (2)
I CLOSED last week with this key point, namely: that the ‘freedom of the press’ –ironically- does not belong to the press. That media ethicists say it is a ‘public trust’ reposed in the media to be enjoyed not by the media, but by the people. And that although journalists must be constantly alert to see that “the public’s business is conducted in public”, they must also “be vigilant against all who would exploit the press for selfish purposes, including from amongst themselves”.
An assignment for Atiku Abubakar
FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been singing a tune, which I find strange for a Northern politician of Fulani extraction. Ordinarily, there should be no nexus between tribe and ideology, in that anyone from any ethnic background could be a Marxist, Capitalist, Theocrat (Islamist or Christian fundamentalist, if there is any such thing) or the everything-goes Libertarians like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
We’re still not talking about poverty
When will we, the people, free ourselves from our Stockholm syndrome and stop celebrating our captors? With the intensity of the debates surrounding the economy (debate is a big word, all we’re really saying is that something needs to be done, very few solutions are ever truly proffered), it must be pointed out that yet again, we limit ourselves to surface issues and seemingly refuse to broaden the scope of our interrogations. I am not one of those who believes Buhari must stop blaming PDP or Jonathan for the mistakes made in
Where are we headed, President Buhari?
THE above question probably sounds very unfair and it’s probably in order to address what makes it so before going on any further. The first thing is that the question gives the impression we are under the control of a leader, a pilot or a driver of a vehicle who has lost his sense of direction.
