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Babachir. Ikoyi Dollars. Baru/Kachikwu saga. Kyari MTN sleaze. Paris fund bailout theft. Illegal Recruitments. Ekiti-Fayemi N13b saga. Timipreye Sylva. Amaechi/Rivers/APC Campaign slush fund. Maina. The list is calendar-long. "Buhari is fighting corruption from the front". Yes, he is, dear Buharists! Have you taken your medication today? Try another sanatorium, perhaps a better-equipped psychiatrist can help you out of this illusion: "Buhari is fighting corruption". Take Neurontin.  Don't forget to swallow one tablet daily (after a meal). It is an antipsychotic. It will help your condition, dear Buharists. Lawyer, Columnist, Poet, Contrarian & the Oracle. Educated at Jos, Nigeria; Durham & Reading, England.

carving their names on the world’s flesh like scars, they won’t waste their breath on the news of dead men. if there are things humans should learn, it is how to leave their emotions out of the equations uncourtly, Keep an eye on their flank, naturally and neutrally. under a worried sky, the wind striped, blood shattered, not in this rat hole shall children learn to sip passage of rotten loyalty from their fathers. through sun and through shadows, we’ll walk by the side of the sun. the sky, the earth’s fate is bound till eternity, If that up goes down, the other is a reminiscence of forgetfulness which is seen in the heart of women. we can heal each other, we can reclaim perpetuity, a fable told from the book of Azra, trust issues but not in the cuddled care of mother fate whose template Of love swells and faints at the sight of an oblong face. let’s man this forest of people that beloved hatred, let this castle of cruelty home you after the nigh...

World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, in a news conference on October 12, reported President Muhammadu Buhari as having said the World Bank should “shift our focus to the northern regions of Nigeria.” Several commentators, particularly from the South, said the revelation provided evidence of the president’s prejudicial northern sub-nationalism. The president’s defenders, on the other hand, said he actually meant the “northeast.”  Rather strangely, both the president’s critics and his defenders are right. Here is what I mean. According to the transcript of the conference on the World Bank’s website, the question that elicited Kim’s response was, “what is the World Bank doing to support those ravaged in the northeastern part of Nigeria by the Boko Haram terrorists?” In other words, the questioner specifically wanted to know what the World Bank was doing about northeastern Nigeria in light of the devastation that has been wrought upon the region by years of Boko Haram insurgency. ...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu The noise was deafening and the emotions were overwhelming. The "Sai Baba" crowd took over space and common sense took a flight. Tinubu might not have made Buhari president, but he made him ELECTABLE! I am into communications. It is my turf. And I know the power of what is called RIGHT MESSAGING. What it does is to primarily target your EMOTIONS . And when it captures your emotions, REASON, and COMMONSENSE usually take flight. You find it difficult to ask pertinent questions and interrogate certain claims. It is a young man who overwhelmed a teenage girl with sweet words that made the latter feel she was on Cloud Nine. Words of caution from a third party were always "rantings of haters". Tinubu used his massive media and propaganda contacts to recreate Brand Buhari. And what was the outcome? Even educated, intelligent and exposed Nigerians, especially Yorubas, suddenly fell in love with Buhari and suddenly saw in him a little...

The way I am responding to invitations by TV stations for news segment appearances about Africa, I fear I may soon be blacklisted and the invites will dry up. 1 Dear Professor Adesanmi, there is an ongoing incident in Somalia and we would like to have you on at 7 pm blah blah blah... I reply that I am indeed able to comment on the tragedy - not the incident - that had happened that day in Somalia. However, will the conversation allow me to mention the strides Rwanda is making in the education sector? No response.  End of Conversation. 2 Dear Professor Adesanmi, there have been reports of a monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria and we were wondering if you would be available to come on air... I reply that I am indeed able to make the appearance. However, the President of the African Development Bank, a Nigerian, has just won the World Food Prize. Any chance our conversation could extend to that issue? No response. End of Conversation. 3 Now th...