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The honourable AGF knew when he was writing his letters and issuing his directives that Maina was a scofflaw and fugitive from justice. But he was not restrained by that knowledge. Abubakar Malami (SAN), by his action and conduct, has done incalculable harm to the integrity of the Buhari’s administration. He has done terrible damage to the anti-corruption fight and has dishonoured the Office of the AGF. Following the public outcry and condemnation that have trailed the revelation that the honourable attorney general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN (the AGF) was the authority in the Federal Government of Nigeria who initiated and instigated the administrative processes that led to the reinstatement and promotion of Mr. Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, the pension scam fugitive, the AGF, in breaking his deafening silence, was reported to have said in his own defence, that he acted in the public interest. Since then a number of Nigerians have come to the defense of the AGF. In ...

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: How To Make Money on Ebooks : 1. Write a damn good book. This should be your main priority. It's also one of the hardest things to do, and the hardest things to judge...

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Ebooks Sales Slowing? Yes and No : Joe sez: This blog originally appeared in 2010. It's extremely prescient about the future of ebooks, but that isn't the reason I&#3...

When Buhari was trying to get our votes. For every negativism around his beleaguered regime, President Mohammadu Buhari, in the warped thinking of his supporters, is not to be blamed. There is always an excuse. Check these out: 1. Timi Sylva was standing trial for fraud, but he allegedly paid the nomination fee for Buhari.  Defence from Supporters:   There was no way the president could have known that the money Sylvia paid was part of the one he stole.  2. EFCC returned 48 houses to Sylvia under a regime fighting corruption.  Defence from Supporters: The president was not aware. Besides, it was the courts that decided. (Why didn't EFCC appeal as it always does? We may have to find out).  3. $5000 was being given to party members each to vote for Buhari at his party's convention at Teslim Balogun Stadium when it was obvious Atiku might embarrass him.  Defence from Supporters: The President was sitti...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan took the bullet for even gaffes and indecisions by gate-men at poor-performing public institutions.  These days an imaginary cast of characters is announced, day in, day out, as the reason President Muhammadu Buhari blunders: the Cabal, Mamman Daura, Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, PDP Defectors in APC, Jonathan, GEJ, Shekau, Boko Haram, Directors, CBN Governor, Emiefele, Dambazzau, Judges, Justices, Judiciary, Cabinet, Buhari's Ministers, Diezan i, IBB, Hassan Kukah, Dasuki, and whatnots. Some have gone as far as blaming democracy for Buhari's inability to lead the war against corruption. They think it's okay to have accused citizens - those the EFCC have, without gathering substantial evidence, continuously rushed to try in the media -facing the firing squad without litigation. Buhari's government isn't hijacked. The President is just a paper tiger you are too sentimental to see, and that explains why even the few ...

This is a land of lands where dreams are planted in the longing eyes of a child. Lives are redefined for societal upliftment, children build castles on the seashore and watch the passage of tradition and culture from the custodians to the younger ones. We speak of those tales under the moonlight, grace the festivities hopping in around villages. Boys stay uphills to tell girls tale of prestige, Girls gather in the stream to sing and dance. When boys come,  they run here and there madly to cover their innocent nakedness  We watch the elders chew kola nuts under the setting of the old rugged sun. Children remember the farmland like their palm, the dreadful thunder,  they chase with a curse. Hopeful land AFRICA is a land of expression. We sweep clean our hearts with love. Our skin colours are our proud name, no full flame,  next fall, next rise joyfully, With love and n...

What Timi Dakolo said... “We as Christians give our tithes to God. Whether pastor chop or not na him go answer to God.” “A canal mind cannot understand the things of the spirit.” “You don’t have any right to talk about marriage when you are a divorcee (or unmarried)” “You need patience and understanding and high level of communication to stay married.” "This generation is impatient." And the worst of the bunch goes thus… “All men love curves and boobs and a beautiful face, but we would forever respect a complete and intelligent woman.” Yet all of you – obtuse and brain-dead are clamoring to place a crown on his head.  What do you find in this tedious, colorless spittle that makes it any less redundant as the yarn of an average Nigerian? This is what your great grandfathers said. It is what your grandmothers told your mother. It is what your mother is spitting all over your face for the last 30 years, so much that you can’t think of ...

Abdulrasheed Maina The family members of former Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration begged the former pension boss to join the change agenda, with the assurance of security protection. The family members of former Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration begged the former pension boss to join the change agenda, with the assurance of security protection. The family disclosed this during a press conference in Kaduna on Wednesday.  They added that their son is not a fraudster but a messiah who brought reforms into the pension scheme. The spokesman of the family, Aliyu Maina said based on his “sterling record” at the scheme, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari appealed to Maina to key into the “change agenda”. Aliyu wondered why government officials were ...

Shortly after a conversation between two of my favorite proteges,  Mitterand Okorie  and  Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu gave me the inflatus for an essay on Julius Berger, a perplexed Nigerian phoned me. Although the terrible condition of Nigeria's infrastructure is a given, he says, his governor has really been trying with road construction. He has always given his Governor an A+ for road construction. "In fact, Prof, if you see some of the roads he completed and launched last year, na like jand". I told him to send me pictures of some of the "ultramodern roads" that his Governor completed and launched last year. He obliged me the following day. He also sent me photos of the ribbon cutting - a whole day of suspended governance and grounding the state to launch His Excellency's new project. I told my interlocutor to watch this space for my response at a time of my own determination for what I was moved to say to him was also good for public illu...