Forty years of Excellence, by Donu Kogbara
Travelling is good for the soul, a) especially if the place you are travelling AWAY from is a frustrating country like Nigeria. And b) especially if the places you are travelling TO are less stressful. Nigeria is deeply, deeply, deeply mired in corruption, spectacularly failing to rescue its teeming masses from hunger and being badly managed by […]
Why ?
AT the time of writing, Mrs. Patience Jonathan is said to be in a German hospital, being treated for food poisoning.
Go for it, Mr P!
WHILE he was addressing a Nigerian Bar Association conference in Abuja earlier on this week, President Jonathan claimed to be the most criticised President in the whole world and I think it is fair to say that this is a huge exaggeration!
Intriguing differences
I LIKE to think of myself as a student of human nature and, having travelled widely, I can confidently say that there is a level on which most citizens of the world are fundamentally similar – identical, even – regardless of their racial origins, nationalities, financial circumstances, spiritual convictions, etc.
Olympic observations
A FEW days before the Olympics ended, when it had become depressingly obvious that Nigeria wasn’t going to win a single medal, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the Sports Minister, addressed journalists in London and told them that:
Legislators’ impeachment threat
IN last Tuesday’s Vanguard, Henry Umoru reported that Senator Arthur Nzeribe has accused National Assembly members of lacking the moral courage to impeach President Jonathan for poorly implementing the 2012 budget.
