Canon law specifies that any baptised male Catholic is eligible for election as pope. The last time that happened was in 1378. That was 647 years ago—not too long ago if you think of history’s long reach.
Last week, from wherever he was, the president set up an eight-man committee on his pet census project, five out of the eight members are from his sitting room. Because he is my brother, I am not supposed to mention this …
The internet erupted with disturbing comments from Nigerian men, the very people who should understand the weight of unspoken emotions.
Packaged like a legitimate investment house, CBEX is the latest in a long list of Ponzi-style operations that have repeatedly preyed on the hopes and greed of unsuspecting citizens.
The problem is that Nigeria’s APC government has no track record of accountability or performance, even on large infrastructure projects that people can readily monitor.
…the people who benefit from or who defend Tinubu’s unabashed Yoruba-centrism should be aware that, like Buhari’s Arewa-centrism, it also has an expiration date, and that the successor to it may be worse than it.
By Farooq Kperogi A major newspaper reported that certain past critics of the Bola Tinubu administration have been nominated for ambassador…
You probably call it something else, but I call it the Loyalty Line: that routine line-up of top government—mostly security-related—officials in front of the presidential jet when a Nigerian leader is about to travel.
We are more tolerant of and readier to justify hurtful words that come from our “friends” than we are of even less hurtful words that come from our “enemies.”
Lagos has initiated a probe, but you can bet the answer they will return would be some tame proclamations on what hospitals should do during emergencies. They are unlikely to indict their own failure to organise society to manage emergencies.
