When President Olusegun Obasanjo was in power we spent 300 billion per year on the fuel subsidy. Under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan it shot up to 1.3 trillion naira in the last one year alone. Can someone please explain to me how it got so high in 4 years and what exactly they […]
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“I can go back to fight a war to keep this country together even at 71”..some people are saying that should anything happen to President Jonathan, forget about Nigeria and so on. I know those who are saying this. Yes, they are supporters of the President. But I know the President is a sensible person
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Until you hear the Scotsman play the bagpipes in the early morning mist of the Scottish highlands, you have heard nothing. Until you hear the Irish maiden sing ”O Danny Boy” on the lush green fields of the Emerald Isle, you know nothing.
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Lord Apsley and I were colleagues at Harrow School in England approximately 36 years ago. I have never forgotten his uncharitable remarks about Nigeria which led to a heated arguement between us. At that time I found it ironic, and I still do, that this quintessential member of the English upper class not only had
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The South Africans are an ungrateful lot. After all Nigeria did for them during the struggle against apartheid, white minority rule and the relentless tyranny of the Boers they have done nothing but treat us with disrespect, disdain and contempt. A glaring example of this is their shameful treatment of our Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole
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I went through Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s article about Nasir El-Rufai titled ”Sanusi Lamido On El Rufai” with amusement. I am glad that he has reiterated his love for Nasir and expressed his tremendous respect for him. He has also spoken well about Nuhu Ribadu, who is also a mutual friend, and he has said that
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Modern Ghana, January 25, 2012 by Femi Fani- Kayode. Boko Haram say they have ”no problem with Jonathan” yet they are killing his people like flies, destabilising his country, bringing his government to it’s knees, destroying national unity and cohesion, waging a relentless religious and ethnic war against the state and committing genocide and ethnic
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Modern Ghana, January 24, 2012 by Femi Fani- Kayode. I am sad and troubled for our nation. I just cannot sleep when I consider the amount of innocent blood that has been spilt in the 24 hours before I wrote this piece. Kano, Bayelsa, Bauchi….it goes on and on. So much blood, so much hate,
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Modern Ghana, January 4, 2012 by Femi Fani- Kayode. Yesterday (4th of Jan. 2012) during a specially convened meeting of the Federal Executive Council of the Goodluck Jonathan administration Mrs. Ngozie Okonjo-Iweala, my former cabinet colleague and good friend, threatened to resign from her position as Finance Minister and de-facto Prime Minister and go back
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i have a word for my Islamist friend. Let me put it to you from the outset that you do not in any way represent the great faith of Islam. As a matter of fact I do not believe that islamists and islamic fundamentalists are Muslims at all, just as I don’t believe that Hitler
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