08:25 02.04.2012 |
I used to think that American pastors were fakes of the fakes until I happen on Nigerians with the explosion of their ‘prosperity’ churches which are driven by hunger, hopelessness, superstition, 419, and sheer idiocy. But we would..
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08:38 19.03.2012 |
Warri no dey carry last? Well, that may be true some nine years ago.
But since 2003, things have been falling apart in that part of the country. We scrape the bottom of the barrel and, sadly, there we find Warri and the rest of..
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22:15 11.01.2012 |
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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22:13 11.01.2012 |
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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20:25 20.12.2011 |
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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22:24 01.11.2011 |
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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07:22 25.10.2011 |
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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14:47 01.10.2011 |
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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14:47 01.10.2011 |
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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