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In my last article I talked about Ali Baba the  character from the medieval Arabic literature Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.In the literature story   Ali Baba encountered 40 thieves and later became their  leader. In my last article, I also talked about the Ali Baba of Imo State of Nigeria and his 27 thieves. […]

Stella Oduah made some comments about me today which were uncalled for, malicious and petty. She reportedly said that I should ”bow my head in shame”, suggested that I was ”speaking out of context” in my essay where I called for her resignation and that I spoke under some ”influence of something or other”. My […]Read More

Any patron of Bureau de Change may find that a difference of about N10 per dollar now exists between the official rate of N155 per dollar ex-Central Bank, and about N165/dollar in the open market!  This is in place of the permitted one per cent markup officially allowed to commercial banks on dollar purchases ex-CBN. […]

1.Today, we are taking historic and concrete steps that will further strengthen our understanding, expand the frontiers of our inclusiveness and deepen our bond as one people under God. 2.In my address to the Nation on the occasion of our 53rd Independence and Golden Anniversary as a Republic, I announced that in response to the […]

Amid the apparent failure of the federal government to pay state governments their share of monthly allocation, President Goodluck Jonathan’s defensive fulminations, the other day, at suggestions that the country was broke, amounted to an ostrich evasion that is a recipe for social cataclysm and possible violent implosion of the polity over a serious national […]

Last year on June 3rd 2012 there was a plane crash in Nigeria in which over 163 people were killed. The plane was owned by Dana Air. The day before that on June 2nd 2012 a Nigerian cargo plane owned by Kabo Air left our shores and flew to Accra, Ghana where it overshot the […]

It amazes me why people do not always like to come to equity with clean hands; otherwise, the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), which courted controversy from the manner it was secretly registered as a political party behind the back of a vast majority of its founding leaders and members, should have exercised restraint in its […]

On Sunday, September 29, 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan hosted a five-member interview panel in the latest edition of the presidential media chat, which was more refreshing than the previous ones for many reasons that I will not be preoccupied with in this piece.  But I must remark that the president spoke frankly to almost all […]

Amid the recurrent and irritating clamor by disgruntled segments of the polity for a sovereign national conference, the decision by President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint an advisory committee to establish modalities for the exercise is a welcome and laudable development. The groundswell of opinion over the necessity or otherwise of a national conference to resolve […]

After years of trying to avoid the issue, Sovereign National Conference (SNF) has bubbled up again in Nigeria. Against its repression by mass psychological denial of the insurmountable problems bedeviling Nigeria, SNC has still managed to rise to the surface. Against its suppression by sectional and personal interest which benefit from the people’s woes and […]

The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA needs a new approach to crowd control within its ports premises. Crowd control is critical to NPA’s compliance with the International Ships and Ports Facility Security, ISPS code, which ultimate goal is to rid the ports of miscreants and every other conceivable threat to security at the ports. Speaking during […]

On the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, I would like to address some pertinent issues relating to our common destiny. It has become fashionable for anyone and everyone to blame all the woes of this country on our political leadership. They are said to be eternally corrupt, irredeemably greedy, hopelessly inept, and […]