Stealing from the poor is Abuja’s favourite game
By Dele Sobowale Two former Ministers of Humanitarian Services – one sacked but allowed to go home and the other now on the run – symbolize how public servants in Abuja view Nigeria’s poor people. They are not to be helped; they are to be robbed. President Tinubu, like his predecessors, Jonathan and Buhari – […]
Managing the economy and other issues
THE problems of Nigeria as embedded in the “National Question” have confused many people including foreigners who are friends of Nigeria. People could not understand how a country so blessed with human and mineral materials would be described as a poor country.
The moral high ground of Gabriel Allon, Israeli spy and assassin
IF the Israeli “Never Again!” applied to all humans on earth without any discrimination, humanity would have taken a giant step in doing good for all and sundry.
Female bishops
LAST week, I criticised Anglican traditionalists who have prevented women from becoming Bishops. I expressed the opinion that female and male priests should have equal status and identical promotion prospects in this day and age.
Drivers Wanted: Minimum qualification, PhD
ONE of the greatest philosophers that ever lived, Aristotle, opined centuries ago: “Men come together in cities in order to live; but they remain together in order to live the good life”. It is, however, becoming increasingly harder to live the good life in Nigerian cities today.
Yes, GEJ can run in 2015
OUTSPOKEN Northern opinion leader, Dr Junaid Mohammed, surprised me last week when he called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare if he would run again in 2015.
