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There are some factors (resources) that interact to make possible the creation of wealth and generation of incomes. 

I have always referred to Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) as a “Fire-for-Fire” advocate, since February 2004 when I wrote a rejoinder to his unacceptable public outburst while he was Special Adviser on Public Affairs to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. My rejoinder exposed the loophole in a statement Fani-Kayode had issued against Colonel Dangiwa Umar, a former military administrator of Kaduna State, and General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), over an issue they had with Obasanjo.

My task is simple” to interrogate this collection of nine short stories and either convince you to buy it or use your hard-earned naira….

The latest is The Washington Post, an American upscale newspaper, said to be currently planning a damning report on Nigeria’s oil and gas sector with particular focus on Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Deziani Alison-Madueke. In the said investigative report, one Peter Whoriskey, a writer with the US-based newspaper, is up and about trying to sniff out the faintest information about Benedict Peters and his company, Aiteo Group.

This find wasn’t new. The Metropolitan Police dealt with such phenomenon periodically. On the average in London yearly, Met and the Coroner’s Court are said to have on their hands between forty and forty-five cases of bodies retrieved from Thames. Preliminary evidence pieced together by the police revealed that the torso was that of a male of between four and seven years old. Unable to put a tab on his real name, he was named Boy Adam, apparently after the biblical Adam, said to have been naked in the Garden of Eden, like the Thames torso.

Journalists are meant to shoulder the burden of informing the masses and also protect them from falsehood that could possibly harm their mental state. 

In the wake of the avoidable arrest of the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in Kenya, and the subsequent extraordinary rendition legal jargon that has little place in international relations, IPOB highcommand listed some alleged Igbo traitors and changed the list about five times.

My body craves for some pampering, yet my brain is telling me I can’t afford such luxury just yet.

This man was a senior executive of a company. Sadly, rather than using his wealth of experience in this position to mentor young people, he took the other route, by destroying the lives of so many young women. Though, he was happily married with children, he would still patronize prostitutes on a regular basis.

Indeed, it was a surprise as no one saw it coming even though he had been hobnobbing with the leading lights of the ruling party for months, denying however, that he had the intention to do what Nigerian politicians do, decamp.

Fani-Kayode is by no means a miscellaneous personality, and whatever he does, or does not do, attracts loads of attention.

If the principal interest of acquiring power at the centre is to steer Nigeria and all Nigerians to a path of peace and development, why should the geography of power be such a caustic issue? If the interest of all Nigerians is of consequence why should the axial disposition of power be the minatory contention? Well, except the latent grail of obtaining power at the centre is to pursue regional and sectional agendas, I see no reason for the pyrotechnics and why we cannot come to an accord on where power should orbit in 2023. 

Are loans taken by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government of President Buhari unsustainable?

I never knew I would end up becoming his ADC as GOC and ECOMOG Force Commander. He had high standards for who was to be his ADC but unfortunately, the rank structure within which he wanted was not available, he was asked to try me out without my knowledge

But even as this continues to play out, one dominant issue in the discussions of most members of the parties is the region that will clinch the chairmanship positions considering its wider implications in zoning the 2023 presidential tickets and the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor when his second term of eight years ends.

Some clerics claimed it was N1 billion, N2 billion while some claimed it was N5 billion. When I inquired about the sources of the news, I was told that it was from the local chapters of IPOB who cited sources within the Presidency and DSS. The rumors of the betrayals by Barrister Alloy Ejimakor, Emeka Ejiofor, Emma Powerful and Edozien Madu have been rife since the third week of the sit-at-home order was cancelled, but how the misinformation persisted till date is what I cannot understand.

Besides, the 13 percent oil derivation fund from offshore fields accruing to littoral states may also be forfeited to the federal government.  Over 80 percent of riverine communities play host to offshore acreages in the Niger Delta region.

In addition to the transaction value, the WTO prescribes five other methods that can be applied successively.

I hope this letter, which is going to add to the series of letters I have written to you, both as open and close letters, but which you have not bothered to respond, attend to or treat, should not come to you as a surprise.

Talk is cheap! To rephrase it, it is easier to make a promise, but, fulfilling it is a different thing entirely. Once upon a time, Nigerians were told that the country would have food security, sufficiency in agriculture and food production enough to feed her citizens, and in fact, export food items from Nigeria to other lands. A policy was enacted, with fortunes from the nation’s treasury sunk into it. Regrettably, the policy failed; yet, no one was held accountable. Till date, Nigeria imports food and grains!