Readers reactions, By Donu Kogbara
On what basis are they collecting millions of Naira as overhead cost? Why can’t they pool the vehicles for oversight duties or even use the same vehicles the field officers use?
Naija torture!
By Donu Kogbara MY late father, Ignatius Kogbara, was a cosmopolitan gentleman, an enormously exposed citizen of the world who went to university abroad at a young age, travelled widely for seven decades, and was almost as familiar with many foreign countries as he was with Nigeria. One of the observations my Dad often made […]
Daddy Tinubu
By Donu Kogbara CHATHAM House, an independent policy institute in the heart of London, describes itself as “a trusted forum for debate and dialogue (that has) provided thought leadership on key issues that defined the 20th century.” Its numerous achievements include crafting the multilateral institutions and mechanisms of global financial stability after the Second World […]
The upside of poverty
By Donu Kogbara I have an impecunious young friend. He’s married with two children and doesn’t earn much because he works in a supermarket. His wife also has a low-income job and I help them from time to time because they really struggle to pay rent, school fees and other bills. A couple of days […]
Refreshingly intelligent discourse
By Donu Kogbara MAJOR General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd), the recently appointed Interim Administrator (IA) of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, visited Senator Douye Diri, the Bayelsa State Governor, in Yenagoa on Tuesday. Ndiomu, a native of Bayelsa, was visibly touched by the warm welcome he received from Diri. But the thing that struck me […]
My heart is heavy
By Donu Kogbara I HAVEN’T been myself since I discovered, last weekend, that Dillibe Onyeama, author, publisher and brother of Geoffrey Onyeama, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, had passed away, aged 71. Dillibe was the son of Charles Dadi Onyeama, the iconic first-ever Nigerian judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. […]
