In a race between man and cow
GOVERNMENT everywhere has a responsibility to protect the lives and property of its citizens. This is apparently one area where our Government is threading the path of failure.
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NIGERIAN Citizens, NCNC, won an election into the Western Region House of Assembly. Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group, AG, had been defeated. This was short-lived.
Read More Re: Executive Order 6, A Decree misnamed?
AS a way of appreciating our esteemed readers, we occasionally bring up their re-actions – those with dissenting views, even more than those who agree with us.
Read More The killing fields of Nigeria
The powers in the hands of a Nigerian President are enormous; and indeed, awesome. The President possesses the power of life and death over his fellow humans. In a simple exercise of the prerogative of mercy as stipulated in Section 175 of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999, he can bring back to unfettered freedom, a man who was already destined for the gallows.
Read More Executive Order 6, A Decree misnamed?
MANY see a lot of wisdom in the Benin adage that at the mention of the whiteman, the white ant also gets jittery.
Read More Amidst NNPC’s recalcitrance
IN some oil-producing nations, we have seen some equipment that enable the authorities sit at Headquarters and monitor the movement of the least drop of oil from the wells to the Point of Sale, POS. That’s the first step.
Read More FG: Do you know where your assets are?
IN ancient Benin mythology, the tortoise claimed that since news had reached him that his wife was in the market fighting over salt and pepper, he was assured that there would be dinner that evening. This is instructive to all, except our legislators who have since lost the real essence of representative democracy.
Read More LATE BUDGET: Budget cycle as panacea
NIGERIA has just given itself a 2018 Appropriation Act of N9.12 Trillion with a Capital component of about 50 percent. This Budget limped out of the National Assembly, NASS, some N500 Billion higher than it went in. On the surface, these figures appear quite impressive.
Read More Gains and pains of the Nigerian Opposition
Pius went to school in an era that predated the present day automatic promotion in public schools. His friends called him Olodo – a Yoruba word for an idiot. Yet, Pius had a clever way of respecting his failure.
Read More Political parties and the promises of democracy
THE absence of internal democracy in a political party is one sure prescription for the party’s demise. Nothing is more important to the continued existence of a political party than the selection of candidates for office because some of these candidates will eventually run the government.
Read More The Buhari dualism in Edo south
SUDDENLY, President Muhammadu Buhari has become a Benin man. We also know that in 2015 Candidate Buhari was not a Benin man. At that time, many mercenaries, largely pseudo Christians, formed themselves into a clique, and the only gospel they had was that Buhari was coming to Islamise Nigeria.
Read More New Awakening on Gelegele Seaport
IN his first post coronation speech, the Benin Monarch, Omo n’Oba n’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, spoke glowingly on the urgent imperative of reawakening the Gelegele Seaport. We must hasten to say that any meaningful discussion of Gelegele cannot be divorced from the adjacent Ughoton village and its Beach as both settlements are mutually inclusive.
Read More All in a failed Budget
WE may keep deceiving ourselves for as long as we want; but the stark reality before us is that the 2018 Appropriation Act is dead on arrival. It is not any different from the previous years’ Appropriations.
Read More Politics of confrontation and power play
LATELY, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has been invited three times to the chambers of the Senate and three times, the IGP failed to honour the invitations. This portends danger to our polity.
Read More Deeper Life deepening Christianity
SOME caveat is necessary here. This is not an advertorial for the Deeper Life Bible Church. Rather, it is more in keeping with the tradition of seeing something and saying something. That is what Nigeria desperately needs today to pull her out of the doldrums in which she finds herself.
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