Aminu Baba is young and ambitious. Having amassed wealth he now wants power. He wants to govern his home State, Mandiki, to replace the corrupt incumbent, Alhaji Sanni, who has misruled the State. He asks his lifelong friend, Jalo Tijani, for his view. But Jalo is alarmed and advises …
`Oga, what is the colour of your money?’ That was the question a puny little policeman in the usual black uniform and oversized boots asked me at the airport. It was a question I cannot forget. No, it was not the usual policeman’s attempt to extort money from me. It …
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 …
Youthful Dr Zedekiah Brown, articulate and mysterious, walked into the office of Maxwell Dusu, a middle-aged architect, and made him a proposal on how they could make loads of money without much hassle. Max was shocked and was initially minded to throw him out. But he decided to listen. After …
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 …
`PRAY FOR ME!’That was what Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, said to the Pope, the leader of the Catholics, the largest Christian family, said to have about a billion and a quarter members. On the face of it one would say, `Thank God!’ May be it indicates a silver lining …
`Supreme Evangelist Anselm, you assaulted the complainant, Cornelius. His lips are stitched, his face swollen. Just look at what you have done to your fellow human being. Why? This is a most unholy behaviour for a man of God, the head of the Church Of Modern Day Messiahs. Why will …
I have had close calls with death over the years. May be you have too. They say the line between life and death is very thin. Life can be snuffed out by sometimes very laughable situations. I once knew a man who died drinking a bottle of coca cola. He …
