Browsing: Niran Adedokun

To buttress my point, I argue that even a mad man would succeed as Prime Minister in a place like the United Kingdom. If a mad man were elected into office, one of two things would happen. It is either the system beats sanity and conformity into him or the system pushes him out as quickly as he is voted into power. That is a workable system that no one can fiddle with

I can also hazard a guess. Obasanjo, given his role in local government reforms in the past, must have recalled that local governments were the closest to the majority of Nigerians and that access to primary health care facilities would do a lot to alleviate the hardship faced by people in the rural areas. He must also have identified the inability of council chairmen all over the country to initiate such projects since the 1999 constitution made councils mere appendages to state governments, who may not all be interested in pursuing such project at that time

Two clear years away from the next general elections, politicians are employing every possible method toward recruiting as many a pawn as possible for their upcoming war

I am also not sure that everyone would agree that the end has come for the NGF but that is how I see it. I do not know how anyone wants to claim victory in the scenario that unfolded this last weekend

We just saw the reactions of Democrat Senators like Mark Begich from Alaska and Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota to President Obama’s gun background check proposal for example. They voted along the lines which would benefit their constituencies

I will never understand how this Boko Haram phenomenon got this far. Sometimes when I read about their atrocities, I pinch myself to be sure that this is still the same Nigeria where I grew up. Things have really gone out of hand in this country

As usual, tens of Nigerians will be part of the conference. The Health Minister will travel with a retinue of colleagues from the Federal Ministry of Health and its parastatals

Now it is Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State. God knows who it will be next. May be yours truly although I am honest enough to know that I am too small a fry for the Nigerian media to feast on. But honestly we like trouble too much

I do not know much about the political structure that Atiku currently has in place but I do know for a fact that this man has one of the most formidable Public Relations machinery in Nigeria’s current political landscape