What’s the justification for such payment for a job that lasted eight years while Nigerians with more than 35 years of service are paid a few hundreds of thousand naira for a lifetime of service

This is the whole point of Obasanjo’s outburst: the traditional institutions symbolised by the traditional rulers have lost their precedence, and so a state governor is superior to a traditional ruler, no matter how highly placed or revered.

THE Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, has given its final word on the presidential election conducted on February 25 after three anxious months. Its word for the petitioners, that is the opposition parties that contested the outcome of that election, has been damning. The five judges who sat on and made pronouncement over this case […]

The dethroned Bongo in his embroidered tunic spoke from a place of fear, confusion and crippling anxiety. It’s not a sight befitting a leader, especially one like Ali Bongo that had held his country and the people of Gabon literally by the throat for nearly one and a half decades.

It was just that the effect of it was very minimal compared to the amount we are told went into sustaining the oil subsidy bogey. The best part of the subsidy money went into the pockets and bank accounts of shadowy players in the oil sector, including oil marketers that are too quick to make Nigerians groan by their Shylock-like ways.