Carrying coal to Nescastle, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Regular users tell me that the road from Sagamu interchange to the Lagos end is usually about thirty minutes if the traffic is light and about forty-five minutes if it is heavy, which often happens at weekends. Recently, it took us – my two friends and I – almost four hours to navigate that journeyand […]
Old wine in new skin?
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is the second returnee president of Nigeria. The first man to experience this uncommon opportunity was former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He came in with two major mindsets, which helped in no small measure in rendering his second coming as a great waste.
Buhari vs a clueless MPC?
By Henry Boyo More Nigerians will probably consider widespread insecurity, unstable power supply and our faltering economy as the three most critical challenges for which President Muhamadu Buhari would have to urgently find sustainable solutions. Nonetheless, some critics may trace the root of insecurity to increasing desperation from unemployment and ‘forced’ idleness on a rising […]
God, give us sports loving governors
This article was first published on April 6 2015. It was a call on Nigerians, sports loving Nigerians to go to the polls and vote in “ sports loving governors”.
A nation’s collapse and revival
By Owei Lakemfa LAST week was one of despair and hope. Collapse and revival. It was a week of exit, and an entry in which President Muhammadu Buhari gave a loaded inaugural speech which like a mini-skirt was revealing, but gave nothing away. Will he probe the past? He seems to say no, with his […]
How Federal Government robbed the states
Somebody should hang for this if it occurred in China or Yew’ Singapore. But, since this is Nigeria, somebody should at least change their boutique designer outfits for “prison designer collections”. The report revealed as follows: “The Federal Government withdrew the sum of N395bn in 2013 to fund subsidy on petroleum products, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission has said.
