Finally,the brouhaha and hullabaloo surrounding the World Bank presidency have been laid to rest with the appointment of Jim Yong kim to lead the World lender as soon as Robert Zoellick,the incumbent president, steps down as head of the world lending body.

For weeks on end,the Nigerian press was seized with a somewhat maniacal obssession with the candidacy of Madam Ngozi who was referred to in such glowing terms as "the best person for the job","the most qualified" and the like.

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I have watched in amazement and utter bewilderment,and with some measure of amusement too,the unrelenting assault on our collective sensibilities by one Dr. Junaid Mohammed whose academic or political pedigree remain largely unknown.It is rather tragic that in these trying times,when Nigeria is grappling with potentially cataclysmic challenges of security and social unrest,and when all well-meaning citizens are making concerted efforts to stem the tide,some member of the dubious northern… Continue

A theatre of the absurd is playing out in Aso rock,the seat of government and host to the periodic assemblage of ministers,advisers and the coterie of hangers-on who wield political cum economic power in our dear country.I know this because in recent times,President Jonathan and his retinue of political upstarts,,perhaps in a hopeless bid to launder their government's tattered image,have continued to assail us with figures that seem to show that Nigeria is on the rapid ascent to growth and… Continue

In recent times,Nigeria has been awash with products of the onslaught on our collective sensibilities by unrelenting and unabashed proponents of sodomy (or as they call it in euphemistic terms,same-sex union).Indeed, bewildered citizens have watched haplessly whilst the media is used to regale us with tales of how we in Africa are backward,anachronistic and retrogressive in our thinking for refusing stoutly to bow to the irredentst argument in favour of what clearly is an abominable and immoral… Continue