Post Tagged with: "Umaru Yar’Adua"

Obituary: Crocodiles have eaten up the writ of habeas corpus

Obituary: Crocodiles have eaten up the writ of habeas corpus

by / on May 10, 2010, 6:07 am

Now that we are done with crocodile tears (genuine grief is never done with so fast), it is time for some brutality. We are like the ancients who said: De mortuis nil nisi bonum⎯Only say good things of the dead. I see no bonum in that advice. I only see bunkum. What manner of man, knowing full well he was [...]

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The Beginning Revolution in Nigeria

The Beginning Revolution in Nigeria

by / on March 19, 2010, 6:28 am

“It’s been a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come“- Sam Cooke One of the greatest demonstrations of freedom took place in Nigeria on Tuesday the 16th. It was a youth rally that had over a thousand young professionals storm the Eagle’s Square and the National Assemby complex (the Nigerian Senate building) to demand a change [...]

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On Pride and the Budget

On Pride and the Budget

by / on November 24, 2009, 5:38 pm

In the BusinessDay of December 1, 2009 Sometime ago, in a forum of Nigerians, someone said that he did not know whether to be proud to be a Nigerian.  The response: “How dare you say you might not be proud of Nigeria? That is the kind of thing that makes other countries dump on us! When they hear that someone [...]

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