When Proper Democratic Process Fails Us: The Saraki Crisis
The “Saraki crisis” is making Nigerians and some foreign spectators of the three arms of government to rethink their understanding of the design and processes...
Will Bombing Big Thieves Do the Trick?
Will Bombing Big Thieves Do the Trick? Nations cannot bomb crimes out of existence as the Government of Nigeria seems to think and practice. When...
Yankius on Saraki’s Buying of Prayers
Yankius on Saraki’s Buying of Prayers Pepper Rest: Any guy when wan cut sore for him body, I go cut sore for him body. Any...
Privatise the Government of Nigeria!
Privatise the Government of Nigeria (GON)! It is amazing to hear that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s refineries are to be sold. Why? Because of...
Yankius on APC Gubernatorial primaries
Pepper Rest: You never hear! Timi wound well well for this All Progressives Congress primaries for Rivers abi Bayelsa State Gubernatorial candidate. Timpre wound Timi...
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria Development in Nigeria is a narrow focus on brick, mortar and tarmac constructions with imported technology gadgets thrown in. The...
Yankius on Stealing by Messages
Pepper Rest: O Boy, I just love intelligent men. The kind intelligence I don start to regard the most na the one when a man go...
The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption: What We May Not See
Nigeria appears to be definitively on track for major national and state anti-corruption initiatives; where the track will lead to nobody knows. The time and...
Gubernatocracy in Nigeria is Taking Big Blows
It is the case that 15% (i.e. 16 out 109) of all senators are ex-governors. This is part of Nigeria’s gubernatocracy. Gubernatocracy, the rule of...
Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists
Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists: A documentary on corruption in Nigerian journalism. Narrated and produced by Nic Muirhead; featuring journalists, Nicholas Ibekwe and Kadaria Ahmed; political...
Why is James Ibori Not on the Ministerial List of Gubernatocrats?
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The Important Lesson from #FasholaGate: Faceless, Nameless and Objectless
Usually, corruption scandals in Nigeria are typically “nameless” and “faceless” after the fact. The best’ name and face’ a member of public or even a...
Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption
Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption The word and context of “empowerment” has come to take on in interestingly corrupt or perverse meaning of its own in...
Buhari’s House and the “Pacts” that Hold It Together
President Muhammadu Buhari has a political “house” he heads and it is the recently emerged All Progressives Congress (APC). New houses either collapse or withstand...
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation Many members of the public want to understand the thinking that perpetuates University Campus Grown...
When My People Personalise the Truth
When My People Personalise the Truth Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot...
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail Nigeria’s failing as a nation is not the work of God. Nigerian political economist Claude Ake, with conviction, said...
Is APC the House of Refuge for the Corrupt?
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is the political party which the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari leads. President Buhari was...