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.
Towards early budgets, 2019 as baseline
Using the 2019 Financial Year as a baseline, the NASS must quickly produce an Act for a Budget Cycle for Nigeria
Highways of endless death-traps
MANY have since concluded that the Federal Highways across the nation have become a metaphor for the worst of every situation. In the first part of this article, which appeared in Thisday Newspapers of August 28, 2009, page 16, we dwelt exhaustively on the Lagos-Benin Highway that was adjudged the worst road in Nigeria at the time.
Lest we forget, what of ‘Mutiny 66′? – Josef Omorotionmwan
THIS time of the year is usually devoted to the remembrance of the Armed Forces, the forgotten soldiers – our war heroes who died that we might live as well as their survivors; and we may also add that this is perhaps the best time to remember those of them who were brutally suppressed in the line of duty.
How not to treat a fugitive – Josef Omorotionmwan
NIGERIA is one place where corruption is gradually assuming the same dimension with the weather, which everyone complains, but nobody does anything, about. We condemn stealing in the strongest possible terms; but all our actions seem to indicate that crime pays, provided you do it big. That explains why the petty thief is quickly thrown into prison while the big time looters who steal billions and trillions walk our streets in unfettered freedom.
N9 Trillion: Contract by another name? by Josef Omorotionwan
THIS is a world of seemingly unending creations: God made man; man made money; and money made man mad. We have since stopped being amazed when Nigerian Officials engage in semantics and create schisms between terms that are ordinarily mutually inclusive.
