IN the last few weeks, the global news media and the internet have been awash with the exploits of the state of Israel in the campaign against Hamas, Hezbollah and other real and apparent threats. In sympathy, Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel last Tuesday. Israel claimed most of the missiles were rendered ineffective by […]

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. — Aristotle (384-322 BC). THE state of affairs in our  dear country, Nigeria, as at now, is simply bothersome. When an Ijebu man is finding it difficult to afford garri, which he wants to soak in water and gulp down with either a piece of meat, a cutlet […]

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” — Donald A. Adams YOU might be wondering what the word, sakamanje, means in the headline of today’s discourse. On the street, sakamanje is a word that describes opaque dealings and manipulations of peoples and […]

“Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your […]

We are still where we were with electricity, more than 200 million of us “managing” 4,000 MegaWatts or thereabouts. Lying to the people is now the highest point of statecraft in Nigeria.