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.

FOR four months, President Muhammadu Buhari was busy in his one-man conclave spinning an elaborate mystery about the character and quality of people he would nominate into his cabinet.

THE President, Muhammadu Buhari is a victim of the high targets and expectations he and his lieutenants are setting. They do not appear to have learnt lessons from the Road Map and manifesto they made which are littered with promises, very difficult to fulfill.

My first articles on the Nigerian economy appeared in VANGUARD on Mondays in the 1980s, shortly before military President Ibarahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, introduced the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP. It was the most ambitious economic programme, ever, in our history. Even, till today, nothing has come close to the far-reaching impact of the economic policies.