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Anyone reading this piece must have heard of the story of a man bathing at a river during which his clothes were taken away by a mad man, a situation that leaves the victim torn between the devil and deep blue sea.
Read More One of the major problems that most Nigerians have endured for as long as one can remember is not just the poor supply of electricity but that consumers are oftentimes made to pay for electricity that were not supplied via the fraudulent estimated billing system. Or what people describe as paying for darkness.
Read More Nigerian politicians and their supporters are some kind of entertainers. If you follow events on social media, especially now that elections are around the corner, you must have been thoroughly entertained. Or highly embarrassed, disappointed, disgusted. Or both!
Read More Whenever you see a minor, especially a girl-child not neatly or moderately dressed, carrying a baby or the baby’s bag and walking alongside a well dressed woman and her equally well dressed children, mostly in a Church or other events, take a very good, deep look at the woman and her family.
Read More Dear readers, for reasons beyond my control, I’ve been away from this page for months, but I am glad to be back.
Read More For 19 unbroken years, Nigeria Tuesday, celebrated another Democracy Day, also marking three years of the change regime of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Read More The ban on production of syrups containing codeine in Nigeria wasn’t exactly the topic I intended to write on this week. President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to the United States of America (USA) actually looked more like it.
Read More Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher had in his famous and influential book, Leviathan, written that life outside society is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’
Read More You can describe Wednesday, April 18, 2018 anyhow you like, but it was indeed, a national day of opprobrium. Some would also say it was a national day of mourning. Or how does one describe a day the National Assembly, in broad day light, was under attack.
Read More When Bill Gates some weeks back, told Nigerian political elites that the country is one of the most dangerous places on earth to give birth, not many would have thought of the drama that played out in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the other week.
Read More Mr. Bill Gates’ visit last week was not the first neither will it be the last to the country, hopefully. But that one visit to the acclaimed giant of Africa kind of ruffled feathers. It more than ever spoke truth to governance, the type many of those holding the country down don’t want to hear.
Read More During the week, another form of drama played out in our national life. And I title it: ‘List of Treasury Looters of the Federal Republic,’ which was released to the public in two or three parts, technically.
Read More Mr. Bill Gates’ visit last week was not the first neither will it be the last to the country, hopefully. But that one visit to the acclaimed giant of Africa kind of ruffled feathers. It more than ever spoke truth to governance, the type many of those holding the country down don’t want to hear.
Read MoreIt won’t be out of place therefore to say that such government’s negligence is also responsible for the prevalence, these days in our society, of such dreaded diseases
Read More Lagosians, couple of weeks back, woke up to the news of a hyper-inflated increase in Land Use Charge (LUC), which was escalated upwards 400 per cent by the Lagos state government
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