While there is a clearly identifiable oil production and exploration (E & P) ‘cartel’ constituted of mostly multinational corporations (with local clients) in the upstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum resources industry, such does not exist in the downstream sector relating to the distribution of fuel products. What causes fuel…
Year: 2016
Are Fraternities in Nigeria Cults?
Are Fraternities in Nigeria Cults? Try a Validated Checklist. It is almost a rule that, as a member of the public, you will encounter UCGFs (University Campus Grown Fraternities). And their members will deny that they are cults or cult members, respectively, on any personal or media platform available to…
Fuel Scarcity and Other Curses
If it is true that countries can be ‘cursed’, Nigeria’s most prominent curse will be constantly having “Good Leaders Surrounded By Strictly Evil Men”. It does not matter if these Good Leaders turn out to be thieves or incompetents, they remain Good Leaders. Another prominent curse on Nigeria would be…
Nothingness: Fraternity Ladder Ambitions
Nothingness: Fraternity Ladder Ambitions (UCGFs) University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in Nigeria are a usual ‘dead end’ for the human spirit. Yes, for those with benign ambitions and serious men. But for those gifted with niggardliness, low cunning, meanness with a heavy dose of unrealistic dreaming it is a fiesta;…
The Nachi Lake “Miracles”: Poor People, Poor Society, Poor Governance
The Nachi Lake emerged ‘spontaneously, out of the ground in Nachi, Enugu State, Nigeria in 2011 and has since become a “health spa” of sorts. It is right to assume that if there is no explanation for the emergence of a natural earth phenomenon in Nigeria, “The Gods are to…
Are Buhari’s Fears a Signal of the End of Nigeria?
In December 1984 my late father made a remark that I could not understand at the time, he said, “the leaders of Nigeria will know no fear till the [oil] money runs out”. It was not until July 2000 that my father told me that the idea was proposed by…
Political Ambitions in Diaspora
Political Ambitions in Diaspora: ‘Obasanjo Say Make I Come’ Between 1999 and 2007 there was an acute frenzy of political aspirations occurring among Nigerians in the diaspora. It was quite an evident wave. The frenzy was about Nigerians seeking to return home to go successfully into politics. Or hold office…
The Niger Delta “Overlooked” by Government
The Niger Delta has been exclusively the undisputed source of Nigeria’s vast but plundered national wealth for five decades. When President Muhammadu Buhari came to power in 2015, his first “tough actions” were exacted on the Niger Delta with the bombings of illegal refineries and bunkering assets. It was an…
Mr President ‘Changes’ From Poor Man to Rich Man
Femi Aribisala is undoubtedly one of the brightest and most effective journalists and bloggers writing out of Nigeria. He is one writer who indeed never seems to disappoint with his pen, be it a tweet or an essay for Vanguard or elsewhere. In a recent tweet, Aribisala emphatically states @femiaribisala – March…
Buhari’s Choice and the Expected “Fashola Miracle”
When President Muhammadu Buhari won the 2015 general elections, he did so largely with the support of neutral and anti-PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) commentators. Everything bad in Buhari’s life history was to be forgotten and everything good was in ascendance. From another perspective, it was very difficult for practitioners of…
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