Photo credit: the Guardian Anytime I hear the NLC call out workers to go on strike for wage increase, I always laugh. I tend to resort to laughter because it’s evident that the Labour leaders have learnt nothing so they couldn’t have forgotten anything. You don’t give what you don’t have! There have been at…
There’s this fable about an elephant who had been terrorizing a community. The people then decided to make him the King so that he might probably stop giving the community hassles. But then, the community was wise enough to have sunken a ditch below the enthronement platform. The people were singing, Ao m’erin j’obaEweku eweleAo…
I just thought we should compare the military government of Mr Buhari to his executive presidency. It’s true the Shagari administration which Buhari toppled really made a mess of the economy. But was the Buhari administration well positioned to bail out the Nigerian people? Well, the military used its usual force of repression to cow…
A certain Nigerian ‘big boy’ was recently arrested for kidnapping. In the first instance, although he allegedly confessed, that can only be used as evidence in a properly constituted court of law. It is for the courts to determine whether he is guilty or not. Second, people have been fast to link him to a…
I hardly have any good thing to say to those who, because of whatever problems, chicken out and withdraw to their pitiable hovels! In the first instance, I am a person who’ll rather take a bullet with the chest while facing the battle rather than at the back while running away. Those who know will…
Nigeria is a very interesting place. The people are so warm that almost nothing shocks them. The nation and the citizens are always reporters’ delights! They are newsmakers!! The last time I checked, the latest news was a debate on the selling of Nigeria’s national assets. Nigerians will normally select unselfish people into positions of…
I’ve always maintained that you don’t really need a certificate to qualify as a candidate for an election. It negates the principle of democracy. The basic principle of democracy is the most popular person winning a free and fair election. That’s why most of the western democracies don’t have educational requirements in their electoral laws….
