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Nigerians are really feeling the crunch the unavailability of fuel is causing, this is whether any one voted for Jonathan or not. Although this is happening under PDP administration, with GEJ still presiding over the affairs of the country, everyone is suffering from the scarcity. Banks have reduced official working hours from 10 to 6 hours. Some GSM network providers also allegedly threatened to shut down some of their base stations, meaning there would be erratic and inadequate connection services on our mobile phones and other devices that run on such infrastructure. It’s no news that road transportation has been grounded since Friday, while there are numerous flight cancellations all due to scarcity of fuel to power both sectors. My sister in-law boarded a flight to Dubai this evening had to stop over in Ghana for aviation fuel. I was in metro plaza, situated in the central business district, all was quiet there. Law and accounting firms, travel agencies etc, were all hangi...

A customized gold wristwatch Sen.David Mark presented to President Goodluck

ISIS has been mounting pressure on the city of Ramadi, 70 miles West of Baghdad, several months before its final capture on Sunday. Even before that, another major town of Mosul in the Northern Iraq was captured. Elite army units like the Swat force and the Golden division suffered terrible defeat and were seen running away leaving behind heavy military equipments .These events have completely left the world gasping for an answer, for the casualties are in thousands. Mutilated bodies of women and children littered the roadsides, fleeing refugees poured out in total daze as to what has really gone wrong? The international community has allegedly denied any help from Iran and the Shia militias. The rivalry between Kurds, Shia and the Sunnis is as sinister as bloody as can be. Significant part of the human population is engrossed in one struggle or the other, staining the landscape with blood and anguish in its trail. In Nigeria, there is no official figure of people killed by the not...

‘It’s impossible to win, unless you are very lucky’, wrote Linda Tirado in an essay “Why Poor People Stay Poor” (author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America). This cannot be far from the truth, in most of the books I read about how to make money, most authors suck in inspirations from their background, the catch is most of them are either rich or making money. You hardly get a book like that from a very poor person telling you why he’s still poor. Now how can poor people, I mean real poor person, make money? Most writers agree however that people become poor because they are ‘unstable’. Tirado argued that ‘it’s assumed that we’re not unstable because we’re poor, we’re poor because we’re unstable’. Rich people can be unstable too; does that status deny them from making money? Being unstable is a form of poverty. You just wouldn’t get anything done; the constrain, inability, lack of confidence, skills, requisite knowledge, lack of focus due to hunger or happiness all these ar...

President Goodluck Jonathan's men would like us to believe that his call to Mohammadu Buhari conceding defeat has made him a hero. They tried to push up his status and launder his image to that of a super statesman. But in real terms, the actions and body-language of the President has given him away. It was obvious he had lost out in the 2015 election even before the hero-like phone call. Congratulating an opponent in a contest is a world wide practice, doing so in Nigeria should not have been a new thing unless the looser is being uncivilized. It is within President Goodluck's power to appoint and sack, but his recent sojourn and frenzy in sacking and appointing people into various positions at the tail end of his administration portrays him in a very bad light. Firstly,  it shows those men he removed from office had refused to do his bidding during the election. Secondly, it is widely believed that he is doing so to create problems for the in-coming government. But wh...

Minister ta ‘motion of urgent public importance’ the House of Representative debated the burning issue of fuel subsidy. Mr Karimi Sunday, who moved the motion, argued that subsidy must immediately be expunged, arguing that fuel subsidy has so far did not fulfil the purpose it was meant for. Similarly, the Senate has passed the 2015 Budget without the provision for fuel subsidy.   Two weeks ago there was no one single petrol station that was selling the product within the Federal capital; motorist resorted to buying at the hands of ‘black market ‘operators at N300 per litre. The situation lasted for days with queues as long as 2-3 kilometres long; disappointed drivers lamented and complained in despondency about their plight. What is intriguing is that fuel has been selling at the cost of N120 - N140 in petrol stations across the North East with no Government regulators to their rescue. Remember that President Goodluck has reviewed the pump price from N97 to N87 shortly before...