What are the functions of ministries in a country? (Part 3), by Usman Sarki
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there”, John Buchan. In the hilarious and admirable British comedy series, “Yes, Prime Minister”, Dorothy Wainwright, an adviser to the fictional Prime Minister James Hacker, once delivered a devastating verdict on the Department of Education. According […]
Politics and economics in immature society
There is one thing many Nigerians agree upon without any dissent either in thought or action: that is that the country does not deserve the lowly place it is in today in view of its natural blessings. God has provided Nigerians with a fertile land and the people, with abundant raw talents to be developed at will.
Generals of the unjust war (2)
BEFORE I proceed, let me recap the essentials of the first part of this essay. I described the Nigerian civil war as an “unjust war”.
The PDP finds its undertakers
THE late Chief Mobolaji Bank-Anthony must be turning in his grave! It was on Igbosere Road in Lagos, if I recall properly, that he established his undertaking business in old Lagos. It was appropriately named “THE SYMPATHETIC UNDERTAKERS”.
Merit, quota system and all that
OUR sense of democracy may be warped. There is still a large group of Nigerian youths who are deprived of freedom to learn because of poverty or prejudice or the absence of adequate educational facilities.
Mummy Patience Jonathan, one wife too many (1)
YOU only get to see one even if there are many more living out of public glare in semi-retirement. We are talking here of executive wives, women married to men of means and ways- inflated balloons turned power houses by virtue of straying into the corridors of power either by the imposition of powerful brigands misnamed godfathers or rigged elections.
