I’ve come to believe that the violent insurgency of the past one year is one huge foreign plot to dismember Nigeria. The plotters [for lack of appropriate name, some people call them Boko Haram] must have understood Nigeria inside out before launching the offensive. They know that governance is not serious business here. They know that few people work for the country and that almost everyone is interested in getting a share of the nation’s…

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Frankly Speaking Apr 10, 2011 By Dele Sobowale-vanguard ngr “Liars ought to have good memories”. Algernon Sidney, 1622-1683. To some people in Nigeria, you hate someone when you tell the truth about him simply because they want those truths buried. I received so many text messages about my hatred for Jonathan instead of people disputing my facts that I now know why people fail exams. They don’t address the questions raised! However, that is their problem; not mine. The issue today is power… Continue

As the general elections draw closer, politicians are getting desperate to get more people to cast their votes in their favour. Last week, I witnessed an amazing drama unfold as a politician tried frantically to convince my neighbour to cast his vote for a party. When the politician realized that his effort was getting him nowhere, he decided to use the power in…

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When last Friday, a colleague asked me who I was voting for, I replied immediately without hesitation, "Buhari". That was quick and easy to say, but when she asked me why, I wouldn't let my answer be as brief. The words that came to mind at first were that of a British war hero. They belonged to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery(1887-1976), He led the Allied forces in the ground assault on Normandy during World War II. He had said "Leadership is the capacity to rally men and women to a… Continue

Gen. Buhari, the CPC Presidential Candidate.

By Ebele Chukwu.

Obasanjo never hid his disgust for General Sani Abacha who had jailed him for a “phantom coup”. Released from jail and still wallowing in a fit of new found spirituality, he wrote a book and called it “The Animal Called Man”. And he elected to wage a battle on this “Animal Called Man”.

While taking his oath of office at the Eagle Square on 27th May, 1999, he had pledged to wrestle corruption out of our national psyche.… Continue

In 2011, GMB is not alone. He's supported by a team of volunteers online and offline like me, who never voted for him before. We didn't vote for him, because we didn't know. We didn't know that he supervised and birthed our only existing refineries. We didn't know that what he did in road construction while in the PTF hasn't been matched by 12yrs of the PDP, even though we claimed they were lopsided. We didn't know that in his time as head of state he reduced inflation from 23% to 4%, by fiscal… Continue