Frankly Speaking
“FG shuns Kokori, Labour, inaugurates NSITF Board.”“We will expose Ngige to international ridicule.” NLC President. VANGUARD, May 14, 2019, front page.Something must be wrong! I just found myself agreeing with Buhari twice in one...
“A leader is best/ When people barely know he exists…/Worst when they despise him…. Lao-tsy, Chinese philosopher 6th century.VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, P 124. Long before one Ogapatapata announced he was going to...
“It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.”O. Henry, 1862-1910. President Buhari signed into law the Minimum Wage Bill passed by an equally cynical National Assembly, NASS, whose leaders are still...
“God grant me the courage to change the things I can change; the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; and the wisdom to know the difference.”Anonymous Irish Prayer. Every Election year, as...
“No revolution is the fault of the people but the fault of the government.”Johann Goethe, 1749-1832, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ. A revolution is underway in the Northern states of Nigeria. The downtrodden constituting...
“They came forth to war, but, they always fell.” James Macpherson, 1736-1796. James Macpherson was the father of Sir John Macpherson, a former Governor-General of Nigeria, who handed the baton of office to Sir...
In 2011, a young man, now eight years older asked me point blank for which candidate I would advise that he and his mother should vote. Until then, I had written nothing less than...
“Hypocrisy is the homage paid by vice to virtue.” De La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 Irrespective of who wins the Presidential election next month, as long as it is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,...
“FG approves N30,000 for its staff”. “National Council of States recommends N27,000.” AIT, January 23, 2019. Insanity has been described by sages elsewhere as “doing the same thing all over again and expecting a...
“FG approves N30,000 for its staff”. “National Council of States recommends N27,000.” AIT, January 23, 2019. Insanity has been described by sages elsewhere as “doing the same thing all over again and expecting a...
