‘Ghost’ beneficiaries beneficiaries of N33/7bn cash transfer
• Doubts over whether billions in benefits reached poor Nigerians By Dele Sobowale The N33.75 billion transfer controversy, now rocking the nation, is neither new, nor did the massive fraud stop in 2026. The well-oiled and entrenched mechanisms for transferring public funds, meant for poverty alleviation, into the bottomless pockets of public servants, continues till today […]
The decay of a regulator
NOLLOYWOOD is in tatters. And perhaps heading to irredeemable self destruction. A movie now has part one to eight. Each of these parts sometimes are less than 15 minutes. The pictures are blurred. Stories are disjointed or no stories at all. Decency, values we cherish have been thrown to the dogs. Nudity reigns. You don’t have to be an actress to sloppily flaunt your nakedness. That is the new acting.
Okpe nation and the national confab
“It is because Nations tend to stupidity And baseness that mankind moves so slowly, It is because individuals have a capacity For better things, that it moves at all”. George Gissing (1857-1903)
ANY individual or Nation that is tenebrously cocooned in the cesspit of communication blackout will metamorphose into an organism forgotten by the march of civilization.
Obasanjo, Jonathan and the futility of power
THE mystery of life is unfathomable. It is endless and beyond comprehension. Man has tried several times, to dig into this mystery through logic, science and theology. Each time man makes a breakthrough, life’s mystery is further compounded.
Before The President responds
FORMER President, Olusegun Obasanjo released to the press, a copy of a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, dated 2nd December, 2013, titled – Before It Is Too Late. He accused Jonathan of all manner of infractions, from corruption to charges of training snipers and reneging on a commitment to spend only one term in office.
Ogboru’s Lincoln argument and Otive Igbuzor
IT’s strongly alleged that Great Ogboru wants to contest the 2015 guber election in Delta. For a man who has hitherto contested severally, got the people’s mandate all such times but in each case failed to get it right in the end, it is no wonder that tongues are now wagging.
