Imo 2015: Still the same people
I have always asked myself questions and, most times, the echo from same rebound inside my inner walls, making running away difficult. The same...
Onyebuchi Chukwu: Man of the Moment
Man is not the creature of circumstances,” bellowed Benjamin Disraeli. “Circumstances are the creatures of men.” Many observers of Nigeria’s etiolated development since achieving...
The roadmap for monetary policy
The Monetary Policy Committee held on September 18 and September 19, 2014 having been rescheduled from the earlier announced date of September 22-23, 2014....
The end of the United Kingdom?
It was 16:57, Thursday the 18th. My iphone (don’t worry about the make), dinged. It was a message on the whatsapp. It was my...
Nigerian power sector and Fashola’s unkind cut
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (BRF), is no doubt, considered in many quarters as one of the serious minds in today’s Nigerian political landscape. One...
Education: Abia and the WAEC result
Even when some hired armchair critics who never see anything good in the present government in Abia State, since Governor Theodore Orji parted ways...
Hamlet in the sunshine state
Governor Olusegun Mimiko, helmsman of Ondo State has spent a large chunk of time agonising over his next move. To be or not to...
Half-free is never freedom – To whom it may concern
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter” – George Washington.
I wish...
Nigerian Democracy – Adamawa and Nasarawa states
As a country, we seem to wallow from one crisis to another. Not long ago, the hype was (and still is) the fate of...
APGA defectors and political rascality
The sign on the wall of the Princeton office of Albert Einstein, the most influential physicist of the 20th Century declares that – “not...
