Tag: APC
Power : The Dumb and Ambitious
In every society and ages, all types of people aspire to and sometimes get to power. The smart and lazy, smart and ambitious, dumb and …
APC: An unhappy Marriage Heads For a Horrible Divorce
One will run out of fingers if I have to count the number of times I predicted that Nigeria’s APC,the party that rules the harried…
Nigeria’s APC: Dying Young
By nature, coalitions don’t last if only because very often, they are made up of former enemies who unite against a common enemy. It has…
Nigeria’s APC is about Disbanding With Help From Its Chairman and Tinubu
Nigeria’s ruling party, the APC ,a coalition of former enemies, is about to dissolve after 5 years of mutual distrust. In Lagos, one of the founders…
Oshiomole: The End As Appeal Court Ignores Him
An Appeal court in Abuja this morning told Adams Oshiomole and his team of lawyers and supporters that it won’t be able to meet the…
Generators: As Nigeria’s Senate Degenerates
In a country whose citizens have had their sense of humor deadened by decades of endless hardships, every now and then,they get a comic relief, from…
Nigeria’s Collapse Was Self-Induced
News came last weekend about a woman that was burnt to death. Thugs deliberately set her ablaze ,live, and brought down her house in a…
Nigeria: In Buhari’s Practice, Only The Doctor Gets Better; Patients Die
On Awolowo road, “Round about”,Ikeja, Lagos, Usman 19,sits daily ,looking at his wheelbarrow from which he sells Pineapples. He is no longer wearing his usual…
Nigeria: Unto Each Tribe, A Crime Is Given
Nigerians are almost always able to convert tragedies to laughter. As a strange lot, they have an infinite inbuilt capacity for endurance. The thick skins…
Wadume: High Crimes And Saints
In Nigeria’s current convoluted psycho-social landscape, the line between the law and the lawless becomes thinner by the day. Sometimes, there is no line at…