Abuja is not drowning in rain, it’s drowning in bad decisions
Sometimes the most effective flood infrastructure is simply land left available for water. That is not wasted land. It is protected infrastructure.
Politicians, voodoo and power
THE ruthless apotheosization of money, wealth, success, fame, greatness and power etc has stimulated the passion for multidimensional strategies for achieving them. The deification of money and power has ascended the dangerous crescendo where human spare parts, diabolical rivalry, spiritual poisoning, family feud, voodooistic proclivities…
Understanding the new Head of Service in Delta
The public jubilation that greeted the appointment of Sir Patrick Oyambevwe Origho as the Head of the Civil Service in Delta State re-enforces the high fidelity and depth of the Uduaghan vision in a revolutionary process never before witnessed in the annals of the state that prides itself as the finger of God.
Boko Haram, Buhari and northern elite
THE principal demand of Boko Haram is religious supremacy and inter-faith intolerance, this demand started in the current democratic era when a Sharia movement started declaring some states as sharia states in clear volation of the secularity of the federation contained in section 10 of the constitution of Nigeria .In declaring such states as Sharia […]
Soyinka, Jonathan and vilification
FROM the mysterious Amasuomo creek in Burutu Local Government I have canoed into the River Niger. This is prompted by two developments – the unceasing acidic verbal minimization of President Goodluck Jonathan by Professor Wole Soyinka and the desecration of Soyinka’s personality by John Udumebraye. My responses to both attacks are that of indignation, bewilderment, puzzlement and surprise (Soyinka’s article “under the sign of an iconoclast”) at a time such as this.
Redefining Nigeria – China Trade Relations in the national interest
SOME weeks ago, in the second week of October, an IMF report showed China overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economy. The UK Daily Mail stated in its October 9 edition, “America usurped: China becomes world’s largest economy – putting USA in second place for the first time in 142 years. The IMF figures showed the Chinese economy is worth $17.61 trillion compared with $17.4 trillion for the USA.
