Archive for the ‘Guardian’ Category
As Obasanjo Ditches Yar’Adua
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s prayer at the Annual Trust Awards that God should punish him if indeed he deliberately chose as his successor a sick man so he would not be able to perform and possibly outshine him, has drawn quite a number of Amens from the public with the outrightly cynical insisting [...]
January 24, 2010
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Yar’Adua: Lost but found
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“HALLELUYAH oh. Somebody shout halle-lu-yah o. Ha-le-ha-le-hale… I praise the Lord o…ha-le. “Somebody, e yin oluwa logo hale…”
“What’s the matter with you?”: You don drink?”
“Yes o. I am drunk with joy. Halle-hale-halle…, “halleluyah, halle…”
“I have been telling you. Take it easy with the bottle. What a man eats is his path to the [...]
January 16, 2010
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Mutallab: We Are Guilty By Association
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Nigerians were not favourite air travellers before the Christmas Day Flight 253 bomb scare incident involving our 23-year old compatriot Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: the rest of the world looked upon Nigerians as potential crooks (even if there are more crooks in Italy and Russia). We were accused of being too noisy and aggressive [...]
January 3, 2010
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Our lack of originality
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I ONCE wrote a piece about the character of the average Nigerian. To be added to that, by way of update is what seems to me to be the Nigerian’s lack of originality. It is a controversial point, but there is no doubting the fact that the average Nigerian is greedy; functioning very [...]
January 1, 2010
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