“I did not kill him, he died on top of me,” that was the confession of the lady who was with former military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, when he suddenly passed on.
Suspension is a civil service instrument. It exists to protect an officer's rights while an allegation is tested, precisely because civil servants have due process protections built around tenure and pension. Commissioners have no such tenure to protect, because they were never promised any. Subjecting them to the ritual of suspension does not protect them it borrows the aesthetics of bureaucratic discipline and drapes them over an office that was never meant to carry that indignity.
What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve ever been part of? When the wind blows, the anus of the chicken is exposed. The Lagos City Boy became national and his ineptness and sheer corruption exposed the joke on Nigeria. When they tell you who they are, believe them.
History is often told through generals, politicians and battle maps. Yet the true story of war is usually found in the memories of ordinary people who lived through it. For the people of Abonnema in present-day Rivers State, the Nigerian Civil War was not merely a conflict between the Federal Government and Biafra. It was …
The term “Ga’a-Niger” was taken from the IBO dialect and “Ga’a” in Ibo means “GO-TO”. “Niger” as a word was the short form of Royal Niger Company which later changed its name to United African Company (UAC). It was a British trading company that existed right from the colonial days situated by the shore of …
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