I wish I had the most melodious voice, I would write and sing you my best of Katie’s choice. But all I have are my sickly thumbs, That type all my love talks and then go numb. Love is my weakest link. Always the pit I fall to its brink, But happy is this with…
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What the Future Holds
Life in its elegance, in its plethora of beauty, is but an enchantment of the eyes. A pre-destiny of a creator, it is but nought to what we desire it to be. “Sandra ooo” “Sandra oooo” … “This pikin…” I am forced to awake on the chants of my mother’s call every morning; the routine…
Winning the Anti-Graft War
Winning the Anti-Graft War It might be jeered at on the tables of the political elitist: that there is no room for morality or cleanliness in politics. Interest is what sets the tide and survival is what pushes the flow. In all affairs, to clinch power, morality and its brothers of similar lingua have only…
Speed Is Good, But Order is Better
“Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone a castle”, says a Yugoslavian proverb. Haile Gebrselassie is one of the word’s legends in marathon racing. Usain Bolt is the King of the legends of sprint racing – 100m and 200m dashes. Haile is good at sprint, so also Usain can make a good attempt at…
Buhari’s Anti-Graft Campaign and the Jurisprudence of Anti-Corruption By Johannes Tobi Wojuola
Oliver Wendel Holmes Jnr. is my most revered jurisprudential personage. This sentiment may be founded on a filial judicial heritage or on my experiential understanding – yet a vestige of my filial heritage – that law is not law until it has been interpreted by the courts: a summarized reflection of the Realist School of…
Corruption Will Fight Back by Johannes Tobi Wojuola
Nigeria’s former EFCC Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is renowned for his anti-corruption stance and fight. Though some may argue that his fight was one-sided or prejudiced, the a posteriori facts point clearly at the reality that indeed corruption was fought by the former Chairman – whether lopsided or not. Mallam Ribadu stepped on a lot…
A HERO’S VERSE
When I am rested at six foot below, And in vacuous ambience Of frozen body, mind and soul, Spirit divined transcends. I cannot twitch to my assailer’s blow When darkness in its weight and thickened moist, Is all my shut gaze can dote, And uncertainty of my spirit’s final host; Either to demon’s…
All change in Nigeria – by Muhammadu Buhari
In 2014, before the election that saw the first change of power in Nigeria by peaceful democratic means in our history, the then government rebased our country’s GDP. Now, by internationally recognised metrics, we possess the largest economy in Africa. While this should be a source of pride for Nigerians, it goes no way to addressing…
YES! The President Can!
By Johannes Tobi Wojuola The Nigerian Petroleum Sector accounts for over 80% of Nigeria’s revenue, consequently being the largest source of our economic dependence. President Buhari’s desire to oversee the affairs of the Petroleum Industry/Sector has seen a series of unfounded attacks on the President’s decision from both legal and moral viewpoints. Nigeria cannot joke…
Why Buhari needs FOI Act in Battle Against Graft
By Aliyu Abdullahi and Johannes Tobi Wojuola President Muhammadu Buhari’s clear intention and sincerity of purpose on the “fight against corruption” and “Government Waste” is a common and global knowledge. However, the best of intentions do not necessarily translate to positive gain in realization of policy goals if the right machineries are not employed at…