Thursday, 18 June 2015

The Pay of our Federal Legislators - the Truth is always eluding us.

I have always posited that the Truth is not known in this country. Nobody tells the Truth, nobody accepts it, nobody want to tell or hear the Truth, and if the Truth is told, nobody wants to hear it, or if they hear, it believe it.

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

How Complicit are the Accountant and Auditor Generals in the Looting of Our Treasury?


One of our problems as a people, as a society, is our intrinsic inability to be sincere, even with ourselves, and from this derives dishonesty, which leads to corruption, deceit, deception and fraud, and of course we know where this eventually leads to, or rather, has led to – the stunting and impediment of progress and development of the country, and a degenerate and depraved society. We are reaping what we sow.

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Looking for a Quick Fix? We must be kidding!

As we move closer to handover day to a brand new Federal Government of Nigeria on 29 May 2015, with a mixture of optimism and trepidation, if Nigerians (whether you voted for Buhari or not) think that the problems that have besieged and dragged Nigeria down for several inglorious decades are going to disappear into the air with a wave of a magic wand, we have another think coming, like the Americans will say.

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Living Dangerously and Looking At the Bigger Picture

Ever since Nigeria’s Independence in 1960 and becoming a Republic in 1963, the country seems to have been living on the edge; living dangerously, like the adrenalin-junkies of the extreme sports scene, so to speak, tottering on the edge of the precipice;