On Children’s Day, just BBOG!
It is the season to celebrate children, and that is happening in many churches and out there in schools and homes, culminating in Children’s...
Ebola and the fool in us
Like a bad dream, the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is here with us in Nigeria. No need to restate the obvious, that a certain...
Lies, blatant lies and statistics
While we were up about doing so many other things, in the first half of this year, more than 500,000 people got new jobs...
Nigeria’s election and its recurring shortcomings
By Obo Effanga
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It is the election season in Bayelsa State, #BayelsaDecides, to put it in a funky cyberworld manner. I am actually...
The big man syndrome
Have you ever been stuck in traffic or drenched in spirit while trying to crawl along in a horrible traffic jam and you suddenly...
Public officers and public-private costs
The news on Thursday night was that President Goodluck Jonathan would be travelling Friday morning to Germany for a ‘private visit’. The statement gave...
Waiting for the long-awaited list
Very few people, if any, saw this long wait coming. There has been an unsettling wait for the composition of the executive council to...
Political sinfulness and governance miracles
Nigeria is an interesting country and its people are even more confounding. Our love for and belief in miracles is unparalleled. The word ‘paradox’...
Deepening culture of extortion
With the introduction of access fees for prospective corps members under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), we can safely say that Nigeria has...
Xenophobic Republic of South Africa?
It is shocking, the news coming out of South Africa, the so-called rainbow nation. It is sad that whenever the word xenophobia is mentioned,...
