Frankly Speaking
“There is no Nigerian past officer or leader that you can point at today and say he paid greater attention to Army Welfare. General Babangida was in the Armoured Corps as our Commander,...
“It is an ill-wind turns none to good.” Thomas Tusser, 1524-1580.It had been my deliberate policy to concentrate on matters affecting the Federal Government of Nigeria and to avoid state and local government matters...
“All things do help the unhappy man [and nation] to fall.”William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Even the village idiot now knows that Nigeria is an unhappy country falling everyday. Suddenly, no economic index is favourable. Unemployment...
“There is no Nigerian past officer or leader that you can point at today and say he paid greater attention to Army Welfare. General Babangida was in the Armoured Corps as our Commander,...
“For every folly of their [Governments] Nigerians feel the lash.”Horace, 65-8BC. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS.Wisdom and folly have always been around since mankind first formed governments. Some races grabbed more of the former than...
“The most uncharitable critic of IBB [Babangida} after experiencing four other administrations (Shonekan, Abacha, Abubakar, and now Obasanjo) readily concedes that but for the annulment of June 12, 1993, the man, IBB would have...
“In every community, there is a class of people profoundly more dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous...
“Banks market capitalisation drops by N657bn”. August 12, 2019.“Investors lose N157.7bn as 43 stocks decline.” August 13, 2019. When in 2016 the forecast of a continuous decline in stock prices was made, a friend...
“If you can keep your head while others all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you….Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. Rudyard Kipling regarded keeping one’s composure when bedlam reigns all around as a...
“The wretched nurseries of unceasing discord and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt….Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804 That was how Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of America and a former Treasury Secretary (equivalent...
