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 […]
A cynic’s guide to constitutional amendments
TECHNICALLY, we could claim to be at another starting point in terms of amending the Nigerian Constitution. Our constitution amendment attempts have been like races.
Boko Haram, 2015 and difficult days beyond
ONE of the reasons why Nigeria is in a state of near-anarchy today is that we hardly reckon that our actions have consequences, and the state has never been decisive in letting Nigerians know that there are consequences for their actions.
The politics of security strategy
THE Wall Street Journal of Thursday-Monday April 5-9, 2012 highlights the relationship between the politics and process of regime change and insecurity. That relationship is structural. Why? Because insecurity is a feature of all transitions- the transition between an established regime changed by revolution or reform and the implementation of a substitute regime.
Abuja, corruption is your name
ABUJA is possibly the most corrupt capital on earth. That is my own layman’s conclusion in view of the unending torrents of news about mind-bending looting of the public treasury coming out of Nigeria’s seat of power. If I am wrong, please correct me. Write in. Share with me and I will publish it.
WORLD BANK: Maybe the right man won!
The Nigerian government propaganda machine quickly succeeded in generating media frenzy in the campaign for our current Finance Minister, who also doubles with powerful portfolio of Coordinating Minister for the Economy.
El Clasico Nigeriana
On Saturday, the football world stood still for what is being referred to as the greatest club match in the world, Barcelona against Real Madrid, dubbed and rightly too as El Clasico.
UNEMPLOYMENT: The calamity and paradoxes – 2
This was followed in a few days by heart-breaking report of the results of JAMB examinations. Together, they point to a bleak future, which follows inexorably on a dreadful present and a woeful past about the quality of secondary school leavers the nation had been producing for more than twenty years.
On the integrity of Nigerian literary prizes
There is no innocent literary prize just as no writing is innocent and free of value. Every piece of writing is a political act, and every prize made to a writer is an act of validation and an expression of a given value – the specific and subjective value of the awarding institution. It has very little universal meaning.
St Jonathan Cathedral of Otuoke
“This world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel”. Horace Walpole, 1676-1745.
A common criminal – Judge
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” – Hunter S. Thompson
