Author: Frank Ofili

Executive vigilante & other apparitions – By Louis Odion, FNGE 0

Executive vigilante & other apparitions – By Louis Odion, FNGE

Louis Odion   In line with the tradition of this column, today, we look back with a view to compiling words/phrases which have crept treacherously into public conversation lately. As we shall soon find,...

STILL ON AISHA BUHARI 0

STILL ON AISHA BUHARI

On 13th October 2016, the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari granted an interview to the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC. In the translated and published version of the interview, Aisha...

Nnamani and the Abuja racket – by Louis Odion, FNGE 0

Nnamani and the Abuja racket – by Louis Odion, FNGE

With the inauguration of the Ken Nnamani committee on Tuesday, the Buhari administration is following closely the footsteps of his predecessors in what seems to have become a perennial national racket. But coming soon...

OF WAILERS, HAILERS AND WAILER-HAILERS 0

OF WAILERS, HAILERS AND WAILER-HAILERS

Let me state from the onset that wailers mean well for the country. Hailers also mean well for the country. Wailer-hailers, too, want the best for our country.   Though we see things from...

Nigeria at 56 0

Nigeria at 56

  Happy Independence my countrymen and women. Our leadership challenges notwithstanding, we have everything to celebrate as a nation.   I am optimistic that we shall overcome. I believe God Himself has positioned President...

Edo poll: Some preliminary notes – by Louis Odion 0

Edo poll: Some preliminary notes – by Louis Odion

Louis Odion   "The people of Edo has (sic) let Nigerians down, though we know that Oshiomhole did fairly well, but (sic) we wanted a signal to Buhari at the centre."   The foregoing...

WHAT AISHA BUHARI IS DOING AT THE UN 0

WHAT AISHA BUHARI IS DOING AT THE UN

Aisha Buhari   A wailer friend of mine has just queried what Mrs. Aisha Buhari is doing on the entourage of President Buhari to the 71st UN General Assembly. He even asked why she...

ON SELLING NLNG 0

ON SELLING NLNG

Aliko Dangote   Since business mogul, Aliko Dangote suggested that the Federal Government should sell off the NLNG as a way of getting Nigeria out of economic recession, I have been reading all sorts...

Fit to wake the Dead 0

Fit to wake the Dead

Mrs. Patience Jonathan   $31.4 million! And another $5 million. And another $15 million. Total $51.4 million! All linked to the wife of a former President of the Federal Republic.   The former First...

Edo Guber election postponement : APC own goal 0

Edo Guber election postponement : APC own goal

Obaseki/Ize-Iyamu   The problem with precedent is that it can, and is always, used to justify future actions or inactions for good or for ill.   When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed...