HOW did corruption become a way of life in Nigeria? This question should be of the utmost importance to the Presidency and of course to the future minister of information whose role, if not for the “job for the boys syndrome” should have remained combined with that of the minister of culture (and by extension tourism). Nigeria’s national orientation, our inability to unanimously condemn wrongdoing, is perhaps our country’s greatest problem.

IN a piece entitled ‘Buhari’s dilemma: Nigerians’ anxiety’ that appeared here a fortnight ago, this column commented on the dilemma in which President Muhammadu Buhari seemed to have found himself naming his ministers.

THINGS have not been going according to plan for President Buhari. For the last four months since his famous victory, the president has been engaged with a battle royal with the very people who put him in power. In order to win the election, Buhari had to form an alliance with wily politicians of the old-school; men seasoned at getting their hands dirty and adept at manipulating the system to power-political advantage.

LAST week, Americans witnessed a bout of unusual political drama. With majority control of the both houses of Congress, the thinking when Republicans swept into power in last year’s mid-term election was that they had formed a formidable bloc that will govern as their hearts desired.

I just read in your column, Candid Notes, your article titled, Hopelessness of our anti-corruption war(2).
I did not read the first part so I wouldn’t know exactly what you said or you did not say there.