February 14, 2015

IT was not on the usual campaign trail but at a very formal stakeholders meeting on taxation that no less a person than Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola made the unforgivable gaffe that PDP governorship candidate Jimi Agbaje is a serial tax defaulter and should not be electable as governor of the state. That should be the most potent example in

NEVER do today, insists Alaba — Special Assistant to Trouble — what you can do tomorrow is not a plan of action. Rather, you are saying you are putting off till tomorrow

IN the prevailing hysteria triggered by the charade of change on which General Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential ambition is anchored, it is necessary to step aside for sober reflections on the fate that

AS the entire world now knows, Nigeria last week scheduled a war. A six-week war, with specific start and end dates. Actually, it is an old war recast differently. The

THE most popular headline last week was the fret by politicians that some ‘coup’ had occurred, as a result of the postponement of the general elections earlier billed to take off yesterday.

IN a previous article, I had written glowingly about the capacity of the United States of America to literally carry on its shoulders the burden of the globe without stretching to breaking