RE: A REJOINDER TO KEMI ADEOSUN'S 'RE-FINANCING OUR FUTURE'

Nigerians are no doubt appreciative of the fact that we are now getting more of an indication of the fiscal policy direction of the Buhari government. Kemi Adeosun has written about the fiscal policy being pursued by the Federal government.

A SECOND DESPERATE MEMO TO PRESIDENT BUHARI - DELE MOMODU

Your Excellency, Assalam Alaikum. It has been over six months since you graciously invited me to your office in Abuja. I must note once again that I was truly honoured and humbled by our one-on-one meeting. We spoke and interacted like two old buddies. What was more, I was all alone with you without a third party in the room. We spoke candidly and cracked jokes freely.

PANAMA PAPERS, JACOB ZUMA AND THE DNA OF CORRUPTION - REUBEN ABATI

Where corruption is involved, African leaders seem to be utterly beyond shock.

Blacks folks in office often regard as normal business, the kind of infractions that draw alarm and apologetic resignations in other parts of the world.

This is not meant to be a racist comment, but it is curious that the African sense of shock is mediated so often and so conveniently by other considerations, including politics, ethnicity, religion, and a certain lack of a feeling of shame: that measure of restraint that defines the idea of being human.

THE 'WAILERS' WITHIN BY AZUBUIKE ISHIEKWENE

We were returning from church when it all started. There was a long line of vehicles stretching as far as the eye could see in front of a petrol station. It was not a line, actually; it was a vehicular jungle.

Apart from the cars, there were hordes of people carrying mostly yellow and black jerry-cans and others carrying tanks of various sizes dismantled from their generators and God-knows-what. Then, there were the motorcycles, and the tricyles popularly called Keke Marwa, chugging head-to-tail like randy he-goats.

PRESIDENT BUHARI AND BOLA TINUBU'S BLINDSPOT BY RENO OMOKRI

Reno Omokri

Former Special Assistant to President Jonathan, Bemigho Reno Omokri has critically examined some newspaper headlines about President Buhari and Bola Tinubu and this is what he has to say.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE WHOSE "FLAWS" ARE HOLDING THEM BACK

This article was inspired by a short email sent to Marc and Angel's today from a new course student:

Oprah Winfrey

This weirdness about you that you think is your flaw – it’s the reason someone is falling in love with you.