events in Nigeria
‘Flatten the curve!’ I first heard it on CNN. New York was in trouble. It is the major landing point of passenger planes coming to the United States of America from Europe bringing in passengers carrying the corona virus and infecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers were getting sick in their …
In 1984 it was all excitement. Our Federal Government had come up with a people-oriented programme. Many of us would soon own houses. They were launching a National Housing Fund. There was optimism – what a wonderful government we had! The socialist leaning minister, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, was in charge. …
In Nigeria now, fear is the key. The coming of Buhari has introduced palpable fear and harship into the society. During his first coming as a military president his use of the security agents was scary. I recollect having cited an incident between a security agent and a private citizen …
Thank God, the Anambra election has come and gone and sanity has prevailed. The vultures hovered, used all sorts of foul language, distributed money and lost. Those who wanted to turn Anambra state into their slave have gone away with their tails between their legs. The APC, the ruling Party, …
We are now in October, 2015, and the silence is deafening! For most of this year the Indigenous People Of Biafra made so much noise you would think the war with Nigeria was already raging. Nnamdi Kanu said he had nuclear weapons, a secret service and would finish Nigeria in …
Thanks to Nnamdi Kanu with his his irritating methods of calling Nigeria’s attention to the inequities in Nigeria other agitators from all over Nigeria have jumped onto the band wagon to vent their anger on what is going on to the extent that the ruling Party has been forced to …
Corruption is alive, well and flourishing in Nigeria. This is in spite of our President Buhari’s vow to fight it vigorously having warned that it is either we kill corruption or corruption will kill us. There is so much noise being made with corrupt pot-bellied government officials daily lecturing us …
The dog in Nigeria in times gone by had a bad name. It bit small children on the buttocks, was used as a scavenger, spread disease including rabies and had the nasty habit of copulating where ever it chose. An otherwise harmless agitation for independence from Nigeria by the Indigenous …
They said gleefully on television the other day that Nigeria is out of recession. That is cheering news for the economists, the bankers, the politicians and the ruling party. For the ordinary citizen it means nothing. To the civil servants whose salary has been owed for months it means nothing …
We Nigerians are some of the kindest people in the world, the most loving and the most sympathetic. It is normal that when a relative is sick we go to the hospital during visiting hours, or to the house to see him or her and say, `Sorry! Get well soon’. …
