Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation This article starts and concludes with the following sentence. “Governance and corruption are about social organisation on a scale that ranges from very good governance to terrible governance.” Good governance regarding government and organisations does not suggest the total absence of corruption. But serious corruption…
Year: 2016
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria?
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria? Corruption occurs in every nation and at all levels in systemic and non-systemic forms. To compare corruption in Nigeria with that in Britain is equivalent to an episode of severe schizophrenia. Capital flight, as it functions in the arena of corruption, happens because of…
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? 2
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? 2 How will the Northerners and other Nigerians react to a political outcome like “The 17 Southern Governors Decide Fulani Herdsmen to Carry Biometric Licenses in Their States?” Or “The South-South Governors Decide Non-Indigenes Are Required To Renew Their Work Permits Every 2 Years?” The…
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria?
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? The recent pronouncements made by Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, astonished many. He said he intends to “regulate” religion by banning the “unlicensed places of worship” of Christians in his state. This campaign has caused many Christians to take the threat of Islamisation more…
Blood Will Flow In the Streets
Blood Will Flow In the Streets “Empowerment” has a strange meaning in the Nigerian context. It is “the sharing of money” by politicians to clients, supporters, the undecided and antagonists”. Empowerment is thus the use of state money to buy political support within the polity. It uses means such as…
Fulani Herdsmen are Spies
Fulani Herdsmen are Spies Fulani herdsmen have always secretly been subversives. They monitor and report on activities throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria. And they have paymasters. So my source affirms. This information, however, does not explain the ostensibly ‘senseless phenomenon’ happening frequently in Nigeria today. The killing/kidnapping of…
Nigeria: Loans For Unsolicited Proposals
Nigeria: Loans For Unsolicited Proposals How can a so-called modern nation be perennially managed since Independence by way of “unsolicited proposals”? President Muhammadu Buhari came to power on the slogan of “Change” but he is still governing Nigeria unrelentingly with the instrument of “unsolicited proposals”. When loans are used to…
Who Has Ever Seen The Nigerian Declaration of Independence?
Who Has Ever Seen The Nigerian Declaration of Independence? It may surprise most Nigerians that there are disturbing questions over who has ever seen and read the contents of whatever document the “Nigerian Declaration of Independence“ (NDI). This is a part of the inquiry even if it does not standalone….
Senators Make Corruption Easier
Senators Make Corruption Easier Corruption is essentially a phenomenon that is highly secretive mostly because its perpetrators seek to avoid the consequences of detection, prosecution and conviction. In Nigeria, and for a long time corruption in high places has been both visible and morally-neutral because of the generous guarantee of…
Loans Will Not Save Nigeria
Loans Will Not Save Nigeria: The Hidden Costs of Borrowing President Muhammadu Buhari won many die-hard supporters purely because he refused to play the game of “begging bowl politics” at a time when Africa’s innumerable dictators were queuing up to take IMF / World Bank loans as global neoliberalism aggressively…