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I finally got around to reading Gov. Fashola’s “take-away” on the Ekiti polls. After going through it, I shook my head in awe. The Governor’s intelligence is legendary, but on this take-away, I thought he was simply disingenuous. For instance, since when did it become a given that being cerebral or a performing technocrat guarantees […]

Have Nigerian judges now decided to treat the criminal poor like the criminal rich? On Tuesday 13 March 2014, a magistrate, Mrs. Chinyere Nwacheonwu, handed down an unusual sentence to a man accused of stealing money from an Abuja Church: she asked one Augustine Bala (27) to sweep and clean for one month a church […]

…if am sitting on a seat and somebody is coming to remove me without consultation, I will hold on to the seat even if the seat want to break; Senator Aloysius Etok (above left), commenting on Gov. Godswill Akpabio’s ambition to unseat him as the Senator representing Ikot Ekpene District. The battle is now being […]

 I have read Facebook commentators drawing parallels between Nigerian security officers in Baga, Borno State, and American security in Boston, Massachusetts. This is silly .   All right-thinking people should deplore tragic loss of human life, especially when it results from willful acts of aggression or vendetta. Therefore, what was reported to have happened to the […]

There’s a good reason to admire Babatunde Fashola, the hardworking Governor of Lagos State; it’s so easy to see that the man wants to contribute a key chapter to, and not become another footnote in, the history of Lagos. All well-meaning folks should therefore support his ongoing efforts to make Lagos a better place for […]

There’s a good reason to admire Babatunde Fashola, the hardworking Governor of Lagos State; it’s so easy to see that the man wants to contribute a key chapter to, and not become another footnote in, the history of Lagos. All well-meaning folks should therefore support his ongoing efforts to make Lagos a better place for […]

Someone needs to find out why a fellow called Danbauchi John cannot resist stealing television sets … and getting caught each time he does it! According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the first time that John appeared before a Gudu District Area Court for lifting a TV set from a shop, he was […]

I dismissed, as an act of mischief, the “summons” issued by the House of Representatives on President Goodluck Jonathan to appear before its members in camera to discuss the state of the nation. Thus, I was taken aback when Gov. Fashola, someone who has earned my respect by his conduct and remarks thus far on […]

No matter how one looks at it, Prof. Attahiru Jega could not have zoomed off more poorly in the current national elections that he is driving. What an unfortunate thing. It is not often that elections do not take place in Nigeria because the umpire was not ready: materials do arrive late; accreditation could be […]