All one can now ask for is a budget cycle with some semblance to the illiterate farmer’s farming circle – in which Appropriation Bills shall be presented to the NASS not later than the end of August every year

Americans have enough ground on which to push him out of the White House; but they also think it will be neater to let him jump rather than being pushed

THAT President Muhammadu Buhari is back home after his medical vacation in Britain is no longer news. The best point at which to start today’s analysis is to join all people of goodwill in welcoming him back, lest we might be accused of belonging to the group that loves him so much and yet wish him evil.

For all intents and purposes, the promotion examination has now been lifted to the level of a lottery

THE  labour of our heroes past shall   never be in vain. This is one way of appreciating our Federal and State Governments for carefully designing pension schemes for former Presidents and Vice Presidents; and former Governors and their Deputies.

THERE are critical segments of our    society that have not been properly assimilated in the scheme of things; hence we have suggested consistently in this Column that there is the crying need to return to a modified Regional System of Government. We have advocated the restructuring of the country into eight Regions under which the Middle Belt minorities of the old North; the Mid-Western minorities of the old West; and the Calabar Ogoja Rivers, COR, State Movement of the old East will be properly assimilated, once and for all. For too long, these minorities have been agitating for their own separate Regions.

IS it still necessary to continue to remind ourselves that in politics what people intend is often different from what they bring about? In trying to evaluate political action, therefore, one ought to consider likely, even if unintended, consequences.

UNARGUABLY, members of even the best-run organisations cannot always escape moments of profound crises, when they must break faith either with the team or with themselves. These crises occur when the leadership of the group suddenly – or gradually – embarks on a source of action that is incompatible with members’ private ethical standards or judgments.

There should have been the need to impose a sanction on those elements that virtually succeeded in putting the party on the path of perdition, if only as a deterrence against future occurrence

While the Number One Office in the land grows in size as it grows in excellence, that Office must be tightly protected by all means and at all cost. For all we know, a bird whose feathers are useful does not fly low

The time has come to unbundle the Fashola Sector so that each of those three Ministries can stand on its own. And indeed, the Federal Executive Council should immediately be rearranged for maximum efficiency and productivity

By remaining docile on issues that are critical to the continued existence of this country, we are tactfully suggesting that we would allow the great issues of our time to be decided by posturing and shouting matches on our streets

The time has come to ask for a thorough overhaul of the Nigerian Constitution instead of this patch-patch approach that the NASS is taking us through

Those already favoured are asking God to bless you; and those yet to be favoured are earnestly praying for you to return quickly to balance the equation you left behind

Productivity must be totally diminished in any worker who claims to be owed 10 months salary arrears