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Aliko Dangote, Nigeria’s truest capitalist? By Suleiman A. Suleiman

Aliko Dangote, Nigeria’s truest capitalist? By Suleiman A. Suleiman

([email protected]; 07066451983 SMS) Nigeria has a complicated relationship with capitalism. For the most part, it is barely understood. In Nigeria, capitalism is often presented as something inherently bad. This draws from the residual legacy of Nigerian Marxism, and a religious ethos that sometimes viewspoverty as a moral trophy. The idea that “money is the root of all evil” remains one of the most popular sayings in our public culture, even […]
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Employment agents & the Nigerian factor

Employment agents & the Nigerian factor

A friend’s married daughter and her husband were shocked when their guard came to tell them when they returned from work, that the nanny to their two children had begged him to allow her smuggle a male relation, who she claimed had come from their village to look for a job, into her room in the Boys’ Quarters.

Who sent killer-soldiers to Keffi University?

Who sent killer-soldiers to Keffi University?

On Monday February 25, 2013, some students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi were killed by armed men suspected to be soldiers. The dead were some Nigerians including students who were on a public demonstration against continued lack of water in the town. No one knows how many people actually died.

Ladies, lies and leadership

Ladies, lies and leadership

The lady doth protest too much! So the president’s other half, Patience in her inestimable candid humility would like the Senate and the House of Reps to pass the budget of N4 billion earmarked for her “pet” project- The Ladies Mission House. This edifice she tells us will be left for the people of Nigeria and she in her words “will not carry the building with her when her tenure ends”.

Jesus Is The Messiah 1

Jesus Is The Messiah 1

Did the wicked pastors, bishops and general overseers who conspired to have Jesus crucified really know he is the Messiah?  Yes they did.  Would they in their right minds dare to kill the son of God?  Yes they would

With one eye open

With one eye open

Whatever made General Ibrahim Babangida to deprive Nigeria of the fruits of that golden venture into democracy, dealt a severe blow on the future of this nation.