Turf Game
The Colonel crashes in to retire a party
Colonel Dangiwa Umar’s 30th May letter to President Muhammadu Buhari caught one laughing and amused. Laughing because Umar got heroic...
Elders are archeological if not anachronistic relics
Both George Obiozor and Ibrahim Gambari have come a long way, all too probably together. The twain are both professors...
Flattening the curves, ahoy!
One of the most popular phrases in this age of COVID-19 must be “flattening the curve.” Apparently, it is a...
Wike lives true to his name and other tales
We can recall the following. Out in Abuja many years ago, we were sipping some cold drinks. A very clubbable...
Is it The Economist of London or Daura?
The tragicomedy of a long life is that there is nothing you won’t see, save you are blind. And there...
Keeping mum on the dead?
Mallam Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari is dead. The consensus is that it is...
Jumping species, jumping specialties
Atedo Peterside is one of the few rich Nigerians one can bank on his ways and means as much as...
Coups are the highest forms of 419 (I)
First of all, let us quickly get ex-dictator, ex-President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, retired, out of the way. We are only...
Buhari crashes the market for messiahs
The supply and demand, that is, markets, for messiahs have been time-honored phenomena. For example, almost from its founding, a...
It is poor human capital, stupid
We don’t have much insight into the ways and means of Channels Television. But one thing can be surmised about...
