Whose time is it? By Patrick Omorodion
There is a saying in our local parlance that ‘if one man own no spoil, another man own no go better’.? This means that “One man’s loss is another man’s gain.” In 2015, then president of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter was in his fifth term as president of football’s world body when he ran into […]
Bukola Saraki’s annual ritual of stampedes
LAST Wednesday, as has become his wont, during Sallah, Bukola Saraki, former KwaraState governor and Senator representing Kwara Central, gathered people in Ilorin to distribute money and pieces of cloths.
Labour, a growing tyrant
Before they went on their annual recess this year, the Senate chamber of the National Assembly had taken a progressive step towards the decentralisation of Labour matters. They voted in the ongoing constitution amendment to remove Labour issues from the Exclusive List to the Concurrent List.
This is the beginning; this is the end
We shall be very liberal with the use of names in this essay, except in the very rare case where anonymity would save the subject some embarrassment.
No, Mr President, Legislators – Sovereignty belongs to the People!
AND just like that, President Goodluck Jonathan took the wind out of his own sails! With his Independence Day announcement, and subsequent empanelling of a National Conference Advisory Committee, his floundering presidential ship of state seemed set to sail out of troubled waters. I was, and remain, cautiously optimistic about his decision to convene a national conference.
Security agencies, stowaways and air safety in Nigeria
AS I got down to write this a day after the Muslim holidays one of the items in a review of newspapers on television is the report that airline fares have been increased. Above the headline of this report in the National Mirror was a photograph of the Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, whose tenure seems perpetually steeped in controversy ranging from charges of corruption, ethnic bias to highhandedness.
Getting what you wished for
THE outcome of the public engagements by the Advisory Committee on National Dialogue may offend one of the basic assumptions which informed the need to subject the nation to critical scrutiny and review.
The ‘Goodluck’ called Nigeria
AS Nigerians, we are all acutely aware of what is wrong with Nigeria, especially since we are all part and parcel of the Nigerian affliction.
Jonathan settles for a jamboree
When Senator Ahmed Tinubu came back from his long medical trip abroad and thumbed down President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to convene a national conference, he drew rapid fire from certain quarters.
CBN takes desperate measure on foreign exchange (2)
“We are not looking for a stronger currency neither are we looking for a weaker one. People want to pay fees and investors want to know if they will have returns on investments.
We will use the reserves, we will use interest rates, we have gone through difficult months; hopefully, the next few months will not be difficult. We will not allow the naira to be weakened and we are committed to that”. Governor of CBN, Sanusi Lamido, in September.
Where do the brightest and fittest go?
By Les Leba “Africans in the prime of their lives were forcibly plucked from their homes and families, bundled tortuously under deck and transported as human cargoes to be sold as slaves to plantation owners in the Americas and the West Indies about 200 years ago. Regrettably, in recent times, there is an unexpected twist […]
