Alaramma

For years Nigerians were crying for a Messiah who would emerge to take them out of the clutches of a murderous, kleptomaniac and insanely wicked people we call our leaders. Alas Mohammad Buhari finally emerged at the center and bandied some recycled died in the wool so called progressives to take over the misery of innocent voters where those kicked out of power stopped. I am sorry voters but it is business as usual. Yes, we were very clear why we voted out the PDP. For me, the biggest reason was the avoidable constant bloodshed in the North East. I felt Buhari could use his experience as a military man get the blood sucking insurgents out of our towns. No doubt he has fulfilled the singular reason for my vote. He drove away a class of leeches and replaced it with some arrogant scroungers who rides roughshod on our collective helplessness. How can the APC conveniently cover up the grass cutting saga of a highly placed party member and think that it would escape criticism? How can th...

To smoothen the rough edges of relations between the presidency and the parliament, most governments appoint a liaison officer to do that job. In Nigeria, that job falls on Ita Enang, who has persistently failed the president and by extension, all Nigerians. The presidency has now resort to establishing a committee to do the job that Ita Enang boggled. The chief of staff job is cut out to protect the president, his presidency and first family against anything malicious, real or imagined; and to also speed up processes where the president seem to be overwhelmed by other presidential responsibilities. Here again, Abba Kyari has failed all of us. In fact, and instead brought the presidency to disrepute and ridicule by immersing the trust bestowed on him in an alleged bribery scandal. These two scenarios are replicated with same disease in most of the men charged to protect the presidency and its policies. At the height of President Trump's travel ban there was a spat betwee...