In the Grandiose Parlor…

Niger state government has procured 50 oxygen fitted ambulances for highways at the cost of N3.6 billion (about $24million UDS) through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This is comes to about N70million per ambulance (about $480,000 USD). This is an outrageously inflated price! Continue reading…

The list is basically the who-is-who in the Nigerian political and business circle: Continue reading…

I caught wind of the Enough-is-Enough youth march in Abuja late. From what I’ve read and seen online so far, the match did happen as planned, the group made their way into the National assembly grounds, but could not get anyone of relevance to address them. Nice and encouraging try, it was.

A video clip

Overall, I appreciate the energy and commitment of planners of the event. They are the ones in the trenches and up against the brutality of the security forces. Putting their bodies at risk and investing their time to make a case for the general well being of Nigerians is a noble task, and I doff my hat!

However, I wish the demands made could have been more potent and better conceived Continue reading…

Nigeria is a sick nation needing disruptive turnaround!

There are three clear-cut prognoses to any medical malady: It can either resolve; turn chronic, lingers and cripple the victim, figuratively; or the victim may just caput, and succumb to the illness.

That Nigeria is sick is stating the obvious, but as apparent as this may be, Nigerians keep getting smacked in the face, incessantly, by actions and developments that continue to buttress this fact. Here are some reference points in 2009: Continue reading…

Another head-scratching matter manifests again in the home country: How could a man on a 170-count charge of corruption involving the laundering of millions of dollars got discharged and acquitted by the court? At least one of the charges ought to count, right?

Well, probably not, if your name is James Onanefe Ibori, the well connected former governor of oil-rich Delta State. There are two or three possibilities of what happened: Continue reading…

The construction of the world’s longest sea bridge is about to begin in China. The Y-shaped link between Hong Kong, Macau and China will be around 50km (31 miles) long in total, 35km of which will span the sea, according to the state news agency Xinhua. Expected data of completion 2015. Cost: 6.7billion Pound Sterling (73bn Yuan or 11bn USD).

It’s difficult to be hopeful that men and women that can dream big dreams (as this bridge), and make such dreams reality, will emerge in Nigeria in my lifetime! Continue reading…

I love Italians. They can’t hide their emotions; they make it clear where they stand (when they not trying to pulling a fast one on you), just as one did a couple of days ago by smacking his country’s Prime Minister in face (video).

I can think of many Nigerians in high places that deserve the “Berlusconi treatment” because they share all of his crimes, and even more.

The Italian Prime Minister has been the subject of intense criticism over his personal life and management style, and he’s not liked much in his country. “The prime minister scores highly in polls gauging Italian popular opinion, though he has been tried on various charges 17 times since taking office in 1994. The charges include corruption, false accounting and tax fraud”, according the media report.

There are dozens of eminent Nigerians with worst crimes than Berlusconi (the second richest man in Italy, by the way)…

Let’s go smacking!