On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen Ellis, British historian and Africanist, compared Nigerian politics to con artistry. Their practices, he said, were not different from acts of fabulists and fraudsters. Ellis’ take on Nigerian leaders synchronizes with a Henry Louis Gate’s The New Yorker piece of 25 …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that some of the people in government both at the executive and legislative levels, should be permanently behind bars for their past misdemeanor and criminal misconduct. Obasanjo, who said this in Lagos virtually on Thursday at the memorial lecture of Denis Joseph Slattery in Lagos, noted that government officials with “questionable” integrity cannot make …

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rt. Rev. Matthew Kukah, on Sunday, said for over 60 years, Nigerian leaders have looked like men in a drunken stupor who stumble and fumble while searching for the way home. Kukah, in his Easter message made available to newsmen, called on the Federal Government to come up with a robust template for how …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Monday that Nigerian political leaders have disappointed Nigerians, Africa, the Black race and the world for failing to make the nation the giant that everyone expected her to be. At the public presentation of a book, Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa by a former Minister of Finance, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, the former leader said: “Not …

Please see Part 1 of this opinion article… https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/12/24/revisiting-remnants-of-a-great-country/ We  continue with our dissection of the insufferable missteps and scattergun approach to governance in the making and running of our country, Nigeria. Frankly, no one is guiltless in the morasses we have indwelt for quite some decades. Let us further probe the perfidy of our educational iniquities which is well …