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Making the counting of the monies uncovered a public show was needless just as it vitiates the seriousness otherwise attached to the anti-corruption fight and reduces same to nothing but a comedy designed to amuse rather than cleanse the society

We have reached a stage in the anti-terrorism war, where I feel these soft and non-combative means of tackling the vestiges of terrorism is more lucrative and would help us better as a people and a nation

Such impunity and callousness has rarely been seen in the annals of world history. Not even Hitler’s Nazis that gassed 6 million innocent Jews and Gypsies to death in concentration camps during the Second World War spoke with such pride and joy about their sheer barbarism and horrendous atrocities either at the Nuremberg Tribunals where they were put on trial or at any other time after the conclusion of the war

On the prognosis for action, Obasanjo’s otherwise excellent analysis however disappointed

It’s also pointless playing Ping-Pong with el-Rufai, when all that Dogara is prepared to serve is a pay slip that does his reputation no good. He seriously wants the world to believe that he earns less than Jibrin?

For now, Anambra is on a roll. Obiano is driving it. Unfortunately, my voters’ card is useless in determining his fate in the November governorship election

Let’s ask ourselves: if a three-day invitation warrants protests and embarrassing the number three citizen of the country, then what would we suggest the Nigerians in the UK should have done when President Muhammad Buhari went on an indefinite medical vacation there?

However, the total defeat of Boko Haram in the North East will not be the end of terrorism or insurgency in Nigeria; rather, it will be an opportunity for us to prevent the next one from happening

The cost of acquiring television content is huge, keeps rising and brutally competitive. Its competitive nature is what drives up the cost of content

It is therefore sad but a looming reality that in 2019, the ruling party will never hand over to an opposition party regardless of any glaring vote margin. Nigerian politicians have learnt that people don’t win or accept defeat in good strides

You cannot use these toys without contacting the spirits behind them

In September 2016, on the heels of the announcement of Nigeria’s first economic recession, Saraki, as a first amongst equals, led the Senate’s charge to come up with 20-points that would help to get Nigeria out of the recession. In addition to this, the Senate came up with 11 priority bills that would help create over seven million jobs across the country and reduce poverty by double digits

On a final, and very important note, the Northern states must ensure that girl children receive a priority access to secondary school education. We must remember that when we train a girl, we train a community

Saraki was right. Pardon for Ndume is not in his hands; it’s in the hands of a political mob, which the Senate President leads, a mob enabled by a weak and confused executive branch

Even in the United Kingdom and United States of America, there is hardly any where you visit that you do not see road contraction, reconstruction, expansion or maintenance in progress. Bridges are being built here and there, new roads are being constructed, old ones are being expanded, all in the bid to further develop the transportation system. And one of the shocking facts is that in most, if not all the places, you find Nigerians as part of the system brainstorming and coming up with ideas on how to make things better

EFCC will also do very well to take to heart the counsel of Justice Gabriel Kolawole while suspending the trial of Col. Nicholas Ashinze and others over media trial

Could it be that the THISDAY report simply mirrors the subliminal but disguised wishes of those who sponsored it that the Buhari administration should fail to enhance the chances of their achieving their own presidential ambitions in 2019? It is so tragic that THISDAY readily offers its medium to the use of political blackmailers, hucksters and gangsters. No price should be high enough to buy a newspaper’s soul

However, Nigerians must not go into slumber, but remain vigilant. Desperate agents of BHTs are still lurking in dark corners and ever willing of stirring fake alarms, the only weapon at their disposal currently

A city without an effective and respectable means of transportation cannot fall into the class of mega cities. It will only remain a city. What we have now as transportation system is degrading and demeaning for humans

Dino Melaye’s brand is peculiar: he can sing, dance, fight and speak out loud. He is an artful master of form. But what exactly does he stand for?