Stella Omu
1 Oct 2019
A retired Deputy Comptroller-General of Prisons and school proprietress, Senator (Chief) Stella Omu, has attributed the stunted growth of Nigeria to injustice, impunity and total disregard to the rule of law by successive leaders as a reason the country has continued to wobble at 59. Senator Omu also bared her mind on the reasons for…
2 Apr 2019
In the Guardian of August 14, 2018 I had written an article titled “The Amazons are coming.” In that piece I named five women who had threatened to take President Muhammadu Buhari’s job from him. They were Oluremi Sonaiya, a Professor of Linguitics who had contested for the office in 2015 and flunked. Others were…
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