Lies, damned lies about fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria, by Olu Fasan
For decades, removing the petroleum subsidy in Nigeria was a political hot potato and then a political football. The first metaphor refers to the squeamishness of some past governments about removing the subsidy. The second describes self-interested and hypocritical politicians whose presidential ambitions led them to be Janus-faced on subsidy removal. In 2012, Bola Tinubu […]
Myanmar’s left on its own
WHEN a daughter of humanity, Aung San Suu Kyi on November 14, walked out of house arrest after seven and half years imprisonment, not a few began a count down on the day the Myanmar junta may throw her back in detention.
Before we are led to the butcher‘s slab – A note of caution
MANY Nigerians believe and truly so, that we are a static nation because those politicians who are leading us are not the ones we would have chosen if given the opportunity of a free and fair elections.
Thanks Again Falcons
THERE is a sense in which we must learn to extend our gratitude to the Falcons. Their victory in South Africa is a statement on commitment and passion.
Heroic coldness
MYANMAR, formerly known as Burma (its natives are still known as Burmese), has hit the headlines big-time in the past few days because Aung San Suu Kyi, the globally admired Burmese civil rights activist, has just been released by the ruling military junta, having spent l5 out of the past 2l years under house arrest.
The end from the beginning
HOW many people saw the German war monger who was trapped, fighting in one of those thick forests in Japan during the Second World War, which ended in 1945?
The sack of Uduaghan
IT came like a bombshell to many Nigerians that Tuesday, November 8, 2010 when most electronic media announced the sack of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State by the Court of Appeal presided over by Justice Monica Dongban-Mensah in Benin City.
Politics of living wage:The 1964 lesson
A WEEK ago, the country was in the throes of an avoidable warning strike. It centered around a six-month agreement to pay N18,000 as the new minimum wage in the country.
Iwu’s legacy of electoral fraud
NIGERIA’S public officials never seem to mind History’s verdict on them. Their occupation of public office and their performance while they remain in such office often appears to them as exercises meant to satisfy the immediate wishes of those responsible for putting them in office in the first instance.
Three reasons for the review of tithing (2)
CHAPTER 19 of the Acts, Paul encountered disciples in need of the Ministry of Aquila and Priscilla. The following is Paul’s interrogation of their faith in the Lord:
The making of a Nigerian coach
DUE to my CAF assignment I could not make the swearing in ceremony of the technical committee of the Nigeria Football federation. I remember calling the chairman of the committee Chris Green to offer my apologies. However, he told me to promise that I will be present for the interview session with the coaches. I promised.
