Frankly Speaking
“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...
“Refineries lose N96bn in nine months, says NNPC.” News Report. The story published in a national newspaper on December 30, 2018 elaborated by pointing out that “The Federal Government-owned refineries lost N96.34bn in the...
“The rate of change in our time is so swift that an individual of ordinary length of life will be called on to face novel situations which have no parallel in the past. The...
FORGET 2018 BUDGET IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME ANYWAY. “But the truth is that we are generally having the wrong discussion. I personally don’t think we have a debt problem, but we have...
“Liars ought to have good memories. Algernon Sidney, 1622-1683. What is it about rice that makes it the favorite food item about which Nigerian political leaders lie so much? Is it because rice rhymes...
“In every community, there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean criminals. For them [criminals] we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people...
“Numbers can be deadly.” TIME MAGAZINE 1970s. President Buhari must have shocked some of his listeners in London last week when he said that Nigeria’s population is estimated at 180 million. The President of...
“Quantum Global Research Lab, an independent research arm of Quantum Global, has ranked Nigeria as the 14th most attractive economy for investments flowing into the African continent.” News Report, March 29, 2018. Addressing the 6ti...
“Journalists say a thing they know isn’t true in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough, it will be true.” Julien Benda, 1857-1952. The quotation which was most troublesome when...
