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Umaru Yar'Adua was a decent man. He believed in the innate capacity of man to do good for himself, his family, the government and, especially, the people. That had been his guiding principle since he went into public service. And he lived…

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, the French critic, journalist, and novelist, made one of the most often quoted statements in 1849. "The more things change, the more they remain the same", he said in his satirical publication 'Les Guêpes' (The…

Sometime in 1962, late Chief George Sodeinde Sowemimo struggled with the constraints of the law in the treasonable felony trial against then opposition leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in a highly charged political tension, made the famous…

There is race among state governors on who will build the most expensive and ineffectual and, perhaps, useless edifices. Initially, it was airports in their capital cities. It costs a lot of money to build one and only the federal…

What started as isolated rantings of an attention-seeking wannabe critic and was treated as clownish vituperations has dovetailed into a growing industry in Nigeria's political space. With just a few months to the presidential election of…

In 1983, the ABC, an American broadcast company, envisioned exploring the effects of nuclear war on the United States. The product was a television movie called The Day After. The film postulates a fictional war between NATO…

He is uncouth, uncultured, but for a law degree he is said to have acquired, you  would add uneducated. Education cannot be equated with getting a certificate. It is a badge that portrays one as someone that has been transformed in…

Under the 2025 budget estimate of N47.90 trillion, the federal government has set aside the sum of N4.26 trillion as statutory transfers to newly established development commissions for various regions in the country. It all started…

It is an acronym that is as classy as it is inspiring. In 1999, just as the Fourth Republic was birthed, the governors of the six states that make up the Niger Delta, got together and set up the BRACED Commission - to create a strong…

He chose an academic gathering to define and redefine the live Nigerians had been living before he became president. “Unfortunately, the good life we thought we were living was a fake one that was capable of leading the country to a total…