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FUEL SUBSIDY: THE GOVERNMENT IS RIGHT

22:15 11.01.2012 | 0 comments

A lot has been said and is still being written about the recent removal of oil subsidy by the Nigerian government – and rightly so. But I think, when considered dispassionately, the government is right on this one. I’ll give a..
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NIGERIASTAN: WHEN GOODLUCK IS NOT ENOUGH

22:13 11.01.2012 | 0 comments

Boy! ‘Boko Haram’ is still winning. It is winning big, and it is winning ugly. It is becoming increasingly and unbearably painful to read now on a regular basis, the bombings taking place in Nigeria and the attendant wanton and..
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MURTALLABIAN TENDENCY

20:25 20.12.2011 | 0 comments

Also known as dangerous incompetence. We were bequeathed this phenomenon of course by that our brother, Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab. Sometime in 2008/09, Farouk, well into his twenties, developed a taste for baby diapers. Eventually,..
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Nigerian Police Operation

22:24 01.11.2011 | 0 comments

Recently I was in Nigeria. Right about the middle of my stay, my younger brother on his way to work one early morning was accosted by three smartly-dressed men of the underworld.
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Trying Tinubu

07:22 25.10.2011 | 0 comments

Former Governor of Lagos State, the irrepressible Bola Tinubu, a proper ‘Area Father’ if ever there was one, was in the middle of his transformation into a bona fide Asiwaju (Leader) when his makeover was rudely interrupted and..
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JONATHAN: HOW TO LOOK BAD NAKED

14:47 01.10.2011 | 0 comments

Looking back on Nigeria’s history of Presidents and its one Prime Minister, it is amazing that not even one of them was interested in the high office they later occupied. They were all individuals that were recruited by bigger fishes..
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This Obasanjo Sef

14:47 01.10.2011 | 0 comments

So, off went OBJ to Bornu State, the capital of ‘boko haram.’ OBJ got there on 15 September 2011 ostensibly for a condolence visit with the family of a man that was killed way back in July 2009.
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UDUAGHAN: Anatomy of a desperate villain

13:30 15.08.2011 | 0 comments

The story of Pinocchio told us that every time the puppet-boy told a lie, his nose grew longer. Well, there is the seemingly never-ending distressing story of one Emmanuel Uduaghan in Delta state whose own bump seems to grow bigger every..
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ABEG, SOMEBODY SHOULD TELL JONATHAN…

05:11 12.07.2011 | 0 comments

Until a fatal combination of cirrhosis of the liver and excess Viagra did the lunatic Abacha in, between November 1993 and June 1998 everyone knew their place in Nigeria. All our noisemaking warmongers kept well quiet, muttered undertone..
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