Although I would want the Saraki trial to continue – to serve as deterrence to other negligent or fraudulent public officers – I can’t help agreeing with those who say that the latest ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal is a discriminatory application of the law and an affront to fair hearing principle enshrined […]
March 2016
Lagos, their Lagos
I escaped from Lagos yesterday, after spending three days of pure torment on her roads. I’ve come to the conclusion that, in order to continue to cling to this madness, a resident must carry about a bag of patience and hope (hope that the traffic situation will somehow, magically, improve in the nearest future). Thank […]
Survive the Peace
Most of my friends who are APC sympathisers have advised that the government slows down or abandons it’s current resort to “propaganda” and instead embrace “strategic communication” as a better strategy to win the soul of EVERYBODY and thereby inaugurate the peace it needs to govern. I buy the objective but am not sure that […]
Governor Tambuwal is the Man
I just read the story of the release of Patience Paul, the school girl who was abducted and turned into a sex slave in Sokoto. According to the lawyer who represented the family, Governor Aminu Tambuwal called immediately he read of the story and promptly initiated actions that got the girl freed from her abductors. […]
Fulani Herders, the Case For
These are some of the viewpoints I’ve come across so far, in support of doing nothing about this problem that Nigeria is confronting, and as both herders and local farmers pay the terrible cost with their lives and their property: 1. Is it because Buhari is now in power that you want to play politics […]