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    The People’s Charter

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow   They want a magician as their leader. But Houdini is no more to pull tricks out of the bag for them. President Muhammadu Buhari is no magician and does not feast on illusions. He believes in the real world that takes form […] More

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    Need for New Agenda

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow One reminisces events of the dying 2015 with mixed feelings. To recollect the many odious happenings of the year is to push President Muhammadu Buhari to race hell-for-leather to mete severe justice to those who have degraded Nigeria so badly with unimaginable brigandage. […] More

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    The Last of the Mohicans Passeth

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow To say the world is in turmoil is an understatement. But these do not portend the end of time yet. It was the poor leadership of one man at the head of a global power that stoked the fire of hate that has […] More

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    Privatisation’s Swan Song

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow One tires of the insipid froth in defence of a crooked plot gone awry, specifically the Nigerian privatisation fiasco. The foreign marketers of the product have since quietly stopped the barn-storming crusade from Washington, but not the insecure middlemen in Nigeria, who are […] More

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    How Not to Tango in Lagos

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow This is no storm in a tea cup. Lagos is at a standstill. The streets are clogged by vehicles in motion but no movement. Motor parks are mushrooming in unauthorised places. Commercial minibus drivers now conduct race teases as they ride on street […] More

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    N2 Per Litre Tax for Sports

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Our under-17 lads deserve a million full-throated guffaws for conquering the world the fifth time in soccer at their age level. Please sustain the applause and rub it a bit on President Muhammadu Buhari for always enjoying good luck in sports contests. He […] More

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    Development Is Not Staccato

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It must have been with great reluctance that President Muhammadu Buhari attended a so-called India-Africa summit in New Delhi. Let us hold brief for the President here that he was there because he did not want to be seen as non-conformist. India gathering […] More

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    Waiting for Buhari’s Axe

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow President Muhammadu Buhari must come to our rescue. Telephone service providers are wringing our necks. One Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, a rent collector, is breaking our backs. Both illegally extort customers. They receive money for services not rendered. It is more than that […] More

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    Buhari’s Eyes for Belles

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Why this noise above the din about the inadequate inclusion of women in Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet? There are many women who would reject unearned rewards. My big cousin, Mrs. Omobola Onajide, the first female electronic journalist in Nigeria, is that type. She is […] More

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    We Opt for Snail Speed to Prosperity

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Those who allege that President Muhammadu Buhari is slow are right, viewing it with the lens of the People’s Democratic Party’s demolition squad of the last 16 years. Buhari is really slow not to tread the destructive route that has made Nigeria a […] More

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    Bringing Order to Public Service

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The aphorism that “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” has never been more apt as that of today’s Nigeria’s leader. President Muhammadu Buhari must have prepared himself for the insults, filth and praises that come with the leadership of today’s Nigeria […] More

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    Bamanga Tukur Still a “Global Villager”

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Some of his old friends of my generation would call him in those glory days of Nigeria’s renaissance, “Lagos Boy.” He really represented the elements of that title in his youth because he knew that city and its people inside out. He was […] More

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