Why are we using Dr. Jim Obaze’s personal failings to judge his public work after his sack as boss of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRN)? We seem to be confusing two things – Dr. Obaze allegedly bathing himself in the Nigerian corruption pool and at the same time doggedly executing the mandate of […]
Opinion
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el Rufa’is Litmus Test
How Malam el Rufa’i ends his tenure as governor will determine whether the people who’ll elect him president will look forward to it or quail at the prospect. It is no secret that I admire Malam Nasiru el Rufai’s work ethic. I have been since the first and only time that my colleague, Aaron Ukodie, […]
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Cow economy and another matter
I was struck by two issues in President Buhari’s 56th Independence speech – the craft in the speech, and the resolute, howbeit unsuccessful attempts to force cattle rustling onto the national security agenda. I’ll take the second first. For reasons best known to him, President Buhari is bent on forcing cattle rustling onto the national […]
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Appointments: Buhari vs. Jonathan
The Nigerian federation is getting more deeply divided by the day. Some senior lawyers have argued that actions or inactions of leaders have helped and are helping to widen ethnic cracks. A recent article by US-based Dr. Okey Ndibe has questioned the inclusiveness of the appointments being made by President Muhammadu Buhari. The ethnic knives […]
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Social Etiquette for WhatsApp Group Chats
I’ve been hunting the Web in search of rules that I can apply for a new WhatsApp Group just created. My search led me to think through and propose the following draft to our members. We are currently debating what to add, amend, and expunge from it. If you have the same challenge as me, […]
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Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day?
Many people are wondering why Catholics don’t follow “every other Christian denomination” to celebrate Mother’s Day on the same date. The first and most important point to note is that there is nothing Christian about the celebration of Mother’s Day as it is inaugurated and celebrated these days; it is purely a secular celebration. The […]
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The Saraki Argument
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
