Re: A Man Spends 38 Months Without Salary In Bauchi: Another Wild, Illegitimate Claim
By Sani M. Lawal I just stumbled on an article purportedly written by a certain Comrade Mashema claiming to speak for one Haruna Ibrahim who the writer said is a Bauchi state civil servant in the Ministry of Environment and…
Support For Counter Narcotics Makes Sense
By Emmanuel Onwubiko “The priority of any addict is to anaesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”-Russell Brand on drug abuse. Nigeria at the moment is a nation that is challenged, hobbled…
Segun Agbaje: Lagos INEC REC; A System-enabled Election Rigger?
Thief! Thief!! Thief!!! The shout rends the air, in the most unlikely place, the burial ceremony of an illustrious son of Ikirun where the atmosphere was expected to be solemn in honour of the one to whom all have come…
Conspiracy Against Democracy: INEC REC; Segun Agbaje’s Outburst, Other Matters Arising
Any protest outside of getting the best of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a free and fair election is a wrong step taken too late in the day! The first option for any democrat is to face an…
Buying Naira With Naira, Rantings And Musings
By Prince Charles Dickson Under pressure we wail under pressure Under pressure black people under pressure Under pressure nigerians under pressure No food in we belly No money in ah we pocket No bed we lay we head The people…
For Their Naira, They Were Killed
By Emmanuel Onwubiko “Under efficient public administration citizens do their duties willingly and mention their rights fearlessly.” — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words “No public administration will be acceptable unless the public servants are polite and pleasant to the people”….
Rivers 2023 Poll: The last cut may just be the deepest for Wike
By Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe I just realized that in life, the people you meet going up, you will meet when coming down. I remember when in 2013, Wike as Minister in active connivance with the PDP National led by Uche…
Circa 1985: Do It Afraid And Do It Unsure By Tony Elumelu
I recall my Youth Service days in Sokoto, a young man, fresh out of school, enjoying the drinks we could afford (lol) and unsure about the next steps. In my uncertainty, I was sure of one thing, I will stand…
2023: Datti, the Future and Fulani Advantage
The invincibility of Fulani in our political space is far more than what can be seen and measured. From the conquest of Sokoto and northern Nigeria till date, their expansionism and entrenchment hasn’t abated. That is who Fulanis are, and…
2023 Presidential Election: Fulanis Versus The Rest of Nigeria
2023 Presidency: Northern Leaders Optimistic Kwankwaso Will Step Down For Atiku – Daily Independent. That was the headline of confirmation for me published on the front page of Daily Independent Newspaper of Monday the 30th day of January 2023, after…
From Happy New Year To Happy New Month…
From millenary to centenary to vicennial to quindecennial to duo-decennial, to decades to quinquennial, to annually, to monthly, to weekly to daily to hourly, to minutes to seconds and even to milliseconds, we appear to have deviced salutations that fit…
