How intelligence, technology, VCRU are closing in on Auchi–Okene kidnappers
By AKINDELE ADEGEBO For years, the Auchi–Okene–Abuja highway and its surrounding communities have carried a reputation that no Nigerian traveller would wish to associate with a journey home: the fear of being watched, followed, and intercepted by men who know the roads, the settlements, and the forests better than almost anyone. For criminal gangs operating […]
Femi Fani-Kayode: Do not become evil to fight evil
I see Femi Fani-Kayode as a comrade of mine even though he has had occasion in the past to attack me. But I have moved on from that and I hope both FFK and Mark Zuckerberg have too.
Despite holding power for all these years, the north is still the poorest part of the country – Kuka
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war (Ps. 120:7) ‘….For most of you here in the audience, you may recall that the last time I stood before a huge gathering of this nature to undertake the same assignment was at the funeral of the late Sir, Patrick Yakowa, and Governor of Kaduna State on December 21st, 2012.
Saraki, fuel subsidy motion and the anti-corruption fight
In 2011, the then Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology and now Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki single-handedly moved a motion on the floor of the Senate calling for an investigation into how N240 billion budgeted for fuel subsidy for the whole of 2011 had skyrocketed to over N1.2 trillion under ten months.
Peace Corps Bill and National Assembly Shenanigans
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion – Alexander the Great
Lagos Land Use Charge: Breaking the eggs to make an omelette
Several decades ago when the great Tai Solarin wanted to establish the nexus between painful sacrifice and breakthroughs, he reached for a famous saying he credited to Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s illustrious first Prime Minister.
