‘We’ve received the letter, it is hypocritical and disrespectful’ – Presidency fires back at OBJ

by ‘Jola Sotubo The controversial 18-page letter written to President Goodluck Jonathan by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has finally been replied. The letter, which was the subject of much conversation yesterday, attacked the president and accused him of pursuing his own selfish interests instead of putting the nation and its citizens first. [READ: “Obasanjo calling somebody... Read More

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December 12, 2013

PDP crisis: Obasanjo is NOT a true democrat – Tukur fires back

by Adeola Balogun Following the release of a letter sent to President Goodluck Jonathan by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bamanga Tukur has spoken his mind. Tukur was said to have urged the former president to show respect to fellow elder statesmen and be mindful of how... Read More

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December 11, 2013

“Obasanjo calling somebody a thief… OBASANJO?!?!?!” – Top 10 reactions to OBJ’s letter to GEJ (TWEETS)

by Adeola Balogun According to reports, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has decided to play hardball with current President Goodluck Jonathan. Chief Obasanjo is said to have sent a letter to the president criticizing him for his “ineptitude” in handling the affairs of the country. [READ: Someone’s not amused: Lies, deceit, dishonour, myopia and deception are... Read More

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December 11, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: On the (purported) slight of Nigeria at Mandela’s funeral

by Pius Adesanmi Perhaps in 2015, you should vote in folks with enough brain power to understand that you cannot buy love and respect with petrobillions? Perhaps you should vote for those who understand that if your citizens are healthy and well fed and gainfully employed, if your infrastructure is world class, if your Universities... Read More

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December 1, 2013

Tonnie Iredia: Is corruption in Nigeria just a mere perception? I think not!

by Tonnie Iredia The second point is the argument that corruption in Nigeria is over exaggerated by some unpatriotic citizens; prominent among them are Nigerian journalists – a group to which this writer belongs There appears to be some measure of unanimity among analysts both within and outside Nigeria that the nation is a highly... Read More

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November 26, 2013

Femi Aribisala: Why Nigeria is the best country in the whole world

by Femi Aribisala All these explains why, in spite of everything, Nigerians are the happiest people in the world. We are deliriously happy. Don’t believe the lie. Nigerians complain a lot about Nigeria. But that does not mean we would have Nigeria any other way. We complain because we love to complain. Two weeks ago,... Read More

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November 21, 2013

Reps move to legalize foreign accounts for president, govs, others

by Adeola Balogun The Nigerian House of Representatives is preparing to pass a law which will allow the president, the vice president and state governors among others to legally run foreign bank accounts. The law will be an amendment to the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act of 2004 which prohibits the ownership of... Read More

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November 17, 2013

Opinion: Our nation has gone mad with immorality, greed and corruption

by Omozuwa Gabriel Osamwonyi If we keep eulogising wrongdoings, we will create a cloudy moral environment that will make it extremely difficult for next generation leaders to be wise about noble behaviour and innocent of evil. Greed will trump chivalry. We are living through a period of dramatic changes characterised by extreme erosion of moral... Read More

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November 17, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Beyond the rhetoric, what would the APC do differently in 2015?

by Simon Kolawole Expect the usual Nigerian response: it is because Lamido is opposed to Jonathan; it is because he is in G7; it is because he is a Fulani man; it is because he is from the North. It always works. Are we really ready to fight corruption? Really ready? You would be forgiven... Read More

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November 14, 2013

Segun Adeniyi: Why Stella Oduah should be sacked – Lessons from London and Accra

by Segun Adeniyi The greater tragedy of our country, however, is that a system that is literally overrun by sundry abuses which undermine best practices is simply incapable of isolating any single act of misconduct for serious remedial action. Two profoundly significant episodes which speak to how other societies deal with issues bordering on abuse... Read More

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November 11, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: The sacking of that Ghanaian minister – Implications for Jonathan in one long paragraph

by Pius Adesanmi How does our corruption-tolerating, indecisive, prevaricating, and equivocating friend in Aso Rock sack his pen-robbing Minister of Aviation without appearing to have taken a cue from his Ghanaian counterpart? John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, the location where my bread is currently buttered, sorry, where my kenkey is currently... Read More

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November 10, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Oduahgate and the killing of Nigeria

by Tunde Fagbenle For these Oduah’s supporters, she is being “persecuted” “because she is Igbo,” “because she is a woman,” and to add more weight, if those were not enough, because she is a staunch (financial) backer of Goodluck Jonathan’s yet unannounced but written all over him second term bid. The stench of Oduahgate, the... Read More

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November 7, 2013

Ogaga Ifowodo: Stella Oduah and bullet-proof corruption

by Ogaga Ifowodo “Do the needful.” That is all Minister of Aviation, Mrs Stella Oduah, says she did. And if she believes this pathetic attempt to save face — because she has a face to save, unlike the hundreds who have perished in several plane crashes under her watch — then how tragic is it... Read More

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November 4, 2013

Opinion: The church is guilty of aiding corruption in the land

by Wilfred Jubril How else does one explain a situation whereby a Christian, who reads the aforementioned verses, still defrauds an organisation and rushes to church to pay tithe? Trust these greedy ministers. They will not query the source of the money. The essence of ministry, as I have emphasized severally in my previous articles,... Read More

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November 3, 2013

Opinion: It is not over until the aviation minister sings

by Denrele Animashaun As usual, her kinsmen have missed the point; that the procurement is wholly irregular and she has to explain why it was purchased for her in the first place. They praised her work at the helm for turning round the fortune of aviation (that is highly debatable). Earth provides enough to satisfy... Read More

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November 2, 2013

Opinion: Cracking the Da Vinci Code in the Nigerian system

by Lanre Daodu Let’s talk about the dreaded,hydra-headed monster called corruption.Corruption has since become legalized institution in the Nigerian System and to beat your chest that you are a different breed is an express admittance to corruption in itself.Any system that intently turns its back on merit and competence is a broth media for the... Read More

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October 31, 2013

Demola Rewaju: That woman called Stella Oduah… and a little bit of Dino Melaiye

by Demola Rewaju Dino is a professional not only on the price of bulletproof cars but also governmental corruption. That the minister of aviation popularly called “Madam Princess” is in some trouble is not in doubt and hasn’t been for the past one or two weeks. She had it coming in my opinion and she... Read More

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October 31, 2013

Opinion: Why Stella Oduah may get her groove back

by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed This is a very bad time for the President to lose proven loyalists. Mrs Oduah may quite possibly have crossed a few lines, but there will be many in the inner caucus of the Presidency watching very closely to see where the President will draw his own line. A 1998 movie titled “How... Read More

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October 31, 2013

Hannatu Musawa: The corruption of silence

by Hannatu Musawa One hopes that President Jonathan can find his voice in order to expunge some of the more voracious cretins from his cabinet; because when he remains silent to their corruption, he effectively and automatically creates the corruption of that silence. The most inequitable conduct any leader can exhibit in a country... Read More

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October 30, 2013

Opinion: Nigeria’s civil service and silos of corruption

by Bamidele Ademola-Olateju In our public service, certain species of corruption have gone mainstream and have become normalized, no where is the evolution of smaller evils into bigger evils more evident than in Nigeria. Examples are civil servants who do very little to earn the salaries they are being paid. The Nigerian public service is... Read More

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October 28, 2013

Opinion: It is our turn to steal

by Jaye Gaskia And when they make excuses about Oduah not being the first or only one involved in impunity; then let us respond by emphasising the fact that although it may be convenient for thieves and treasury looters to justify their pillage by claiming that they are stealing on behalf of their respective ethnic... Read More

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October 26, 2013

Levi Obijiofor: The NCAA’s handling of the car purchase scandal was a complete PR disaster

by Levi Obijiofor Jonathan has the constitutional and moral duty to investigate this issue and to stop the officials involved in the scandal. If he is unwilling to deal decisively with the officials involved, he must discard forthwith all his claims to zero tolerance for corruption. Never in the history of this country have Nigerian... Read More

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October 21, 2013

Opinion: Much ado about Oduah’s bullet-proof cars

by Prince Charles Dickson After all the last time I checked, about half a dozen ministers had bulletproof cars, some 30 governors had same, they are all under threats–I don’t know ordinary Nigerians can’t understand the threats to this leaders. If the rat and the lizard are soaked by rain, the water dries from the... Read More

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October 17, 2013

Opinion: Nuhu Ribadu and the audacity of ambition

by Nwokeoma Enyioha He made the anti- corruption international collaborating agencies into branding him as the only nemesis of corruption in Nigeria without whom no gains can be recorded in the fight against corruption. Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) amuse me when he attributes his nemesis to others.... Read More

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October 17, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: Boda Nigeria, Bros Naija, and soul things

by Pius Adesanmi Whereas other countries define themselves nationally around a set of transcendental ideas and ideals, we insist on coming together only to carve out our respective portions of the national cake. Well, as far as nations go, you cannot eat your cake and have a soul o. And we don’t even have table... Read More

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October 16, 2013

EFCC in financial trouble, delays lawyers’ payment

The Federal Government’s anti-graft war, which many have dismissed as below average, may collapse as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, one of the agencies saddled with the responsibility of prosecuting the campaign, is said to be broke. Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday revealed that the EFCC had been finding it difficult... Read More

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October 9, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Corruption as Commander-in-Chief and 100 days of ASUU strike (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa There will be no fight against corruption under this government. Nigeria will not win the war against corruption under the current administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. You can’t win a battle you don’t fight. In fact, based on the administration’s parley with corruption, one should not be surprised when the corruption statistics... Read More

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October 5, 2013

Dino Melaye: A Nation in dangerous rift

by Dino Melaye …we are more shocked by the open confession of our own President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at a Church service in Abuja that the alleged members of the Boko Haram have infiltrated his government and even could be dining with him. It is with deep sense of pain, bleeding heart and concern for... Read More

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‘We’ve received the letter, it is hypocritical and disrespectful’ – Presidency fires back at OBJ

PDP crisis: Obasanjo is NOT a true democrat – Tukur fires back

“Obasanjo calling somebody a thief… OBASANJO?!?!?!” – Top 10 reactions to OBJ’s letter to GEJ (TWEETS)

Pius Adesanmi: On the (purported) slight of Nigeria at Mandela’s funeral

House of Representatives question ministry’s N2.6bn warehouse in CBN, FCMB

Your body language encourages corruption – Tambuwal tells Jonathan

Tonnie Iredia: Is corruption in Nigeria just a mere perception? I think not!

Femi Aribisala: Why Nigeria is the best country in the whole world

Reps move to legalize foreign accounts for president, govs, others

Opinion: Our nation has gone mad with immorality, greed and corruption

Simon Kolawole: Beyond the rhetoric, what would the APC do differently in 2015?

Segun Adeniyi: Why Stella Oduah should be sacked – Lessons from London and Accra

Pius Adesanmi: The sacking of that Ghanaian minister – Implications for Jonathan in one long paragraph

Tunde Fagbenle: Oduahgate and the killing of Nigeria

Ogaga Ifowodo: Stella Oduah and bullet-proof corruption

Opinion: The church is guilty of aiding corruption in the land

Opinion: It is not over until the aviation minister sings

Opinion: Cracking the Da Vinci Code in the Nigerian system

Demola Rewaju: That woman called Stella Oduah… and a little bit of Dino Melaiye

Opinion: Why Stella Oduah may get her groove back

Hannatu Musawa: The corruption of silence

Opinion: Nigeria’s civil service and silos of corruption

Opinion: It is our turn to steal

Levi Obijiofor: The NCAA’s handling of the car purchase scandal was a complete PR disaster

Opinion: Much ado about Oduah’s bullet-proof cars

Opinion: Nuhu Ribadu and the audacity of ambition

Pius Adesanmi: Boda Nigeria, Bros Naija, and soul things

EFCC in financial trouble, delays lawyers’ payment

Japheth Omojuwa: Corruption as Commander-in-Chief and 100 days of ASUU strike (Y! FrontPage)

Dino Melaye: A Nation in dangerous rift

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