Vote-Buying taken to the limits
WE are almost impelled to start today’s piece on the hypothesis that money is the sole determinant of electoral outcomes in Nigeria. In every election, the two major political parties spend big and win big while the small parties spend virtually nothing and win virtually nothing.
Stop bargaining Nigeria away
THE fact that the Bible talks of good success also presupposes that some successes could be bad. In contributing to this view, a friend reminded us that any success that cannot be accessed is bad.
The looming emergencies
THE Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is asking for moderate revolutions, oblivious perhaps that there are no moderate revolutions.
ACN: Need for cautious optimism
WHETHER a political system is democratic or totalitarian, nothing is more important to its continued existence than its selection of candidates for office. This is so because some of these candidates will eventually run the government.
Edo State @ 3
IN another 48 hours, Edo State shall be three years old. Anyone who claims otherwise simply puts on himself a burden similar to that of a Bini man who kills a lion in any part of Benin Kingdom.
How not to reform the ports
WANTED URGENTLY: Fake and adulterated products; Killer and expired drugs; Inferior cables and wires; Fake electronics of all descriptions; Antiquated over-used vehicles, not less than 30 years old; Toxic wastes properly packaged and labeled as food; and any other items that are not required in the country of origin, to be dumped on Nigeria.
