Orubebe is Not Mad!
.Orubebe is Not Mad! If one wants to explain why former Minister of the Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) behave the way he did at…
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Are Leaders or Followers to Blame for Corruption?
.Are Leaders or Followers to Blame for Corruption? Grimot Nane Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Studies Corruption is unsatisfactorily defined as the “misuse of public office for private gain”…
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread In everyday Nigerian parlance, the word “combination”, regarding food, connotes meals that comprise unlikely combinations of food items. Meals are combinatorial products. chips…
Nigeria’s “Tale of Two Election Day Silences”
There was considerable peace and “silence” during the 2015 Nigerian general elections yesterday. It was good news that apart from the “I am above the law” behaviour of some senior…
A Clueless Precedent By Nnimmo Bassey
When friends meet after a long while the questions that roll off after the handshakes, and maybe hugs, are often the standard “how have you been?” The pleasantries could continue…
Thieving: Incumbency in Elections
Thieving: Incumbency in Elections One would wonder why the power of incumbency of presidents and governors in Nigeria,elsewhere in Africa and other places in the world is well-near indomitable at…