events in Nigeria
All over the world, except in communist countries and struggling Third World countries, governments shy away from setting up companies and running them. The simple truth is that bureaucracy usually gets in the way and these companies make losses. A great example is the United States of America. You can …
Ogbuefi! Ogbuehi! Ogbueshi! You hail an Igbo man with any of them and he will be pleased at the high compliment you are paying him. It is a title buried deep in Igbo custom and tradition. It denotes an achiever, successful and wealthy enough to slaughter a cow at will. …
My understanding is that a ghost worker is somebody who draws salary at the end of the month from a company, organisation or business where he does not work. In simple terms he steals money at the end of each month from somebody for whom he does not work. I …
A few days ago we hit rock bottom. The minister in charge of power admitted that there was complete blackout from the national grid. That was not news to me. I had spent the last five weeks in my home town where we had not seen a minute of electricity …
Even though the Bight of Biafra has now been renamed and is off the map of the world ostensibly to remove the memory of Nigeria’s Civil War from the map of Nigeria, Biafra that was once a country will ever remain in history records. I was once a proud Biafran. …
Yes! This is not hearsay. I actually saw and heard our lovely Minister of Finance, articulate, English accent (possibly Cockney), while defending her budget before the Senate say that by the introduction of the Bank Verification Number they discovered twenty three thousand ghost workers in the service of the Federal …
In virtually any society that I know of it is normal to come back and say thank you to people who have done you one favour or the other. To forget that simple courtesy is not normal. If somebody helps your child to gain admission to a school you go …
Newspaper mogul, Nduka Obaigbena, publisher of Thisday newspaper was quoted in the Vanguard of 12thDecember, 2015, as replying thus to the EFCC, `We have never received any suspicious funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser. All funds received from the Office of the National Security Adviser were payments …
Many years ago my late friend, Aaron Agbatekwe, was a regular columnist for the Guardian. One day I asked him why an Estate Surveyor and Valuer should spend so much time writing columns for which he was not being paid and which not many people read. He said he wrote …
