COMMENTS WORTH SHARING: [Nigeria’s] Lawmakers okay N100m medical retirement allowance for Akpabio

  http://www.punchng.com/news/lawmakers-okay-n100m-medical-retirement-allowance-for-akpabio/ Let us hope  that other PDP-controlled state government do not copy this outrageous retirement allowance. This  is just day light robbery of people’s funds. Lati   Dear Dr. Opawoye, I concur that it is daylight robbery.  These people got millions in so-called “security vote” for 4 or 8 years to expend as they […]

What hair “issues”? Way to go, Lupita – Tao

Lupita Dear, now you have money, please DO NOT spend it on matching or buying the Caucasian idea of beauty. You are a beautiful African woman,please remain beautiful … mimicry will not get you anywhere except as a bad copy and an inferior type of the Caucasian woman. We love you.   Tao, March 3, […]

Soyinka Warns Of Political Shipwreck As APC Leaders Court Obasanjo, Others – Sahara Reporters

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has warned that Nigeria might be headed for a shipwreck as top officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo to court his support. In a statement titled “SHIPWRECK AHEAD!” Mr. Soyinka warned that Nigeria would need urgent rescue operations if the APC wants to invite people […]

Blame Nigerian system where crime and punishment do not go together, not the [Senator] Tom Cruzes of the world – Tao

What Tom Cruz, Senator of United States Senate said of the reported glitches being experienced with the much-maligned [U.S.] Affordable [Health] Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare: “You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately… They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website.” I have not […]

National Library’s N90 million-Plus annual rental lapses; must quit! – Friday Olokor

Another only-in-Nigeria bizarre tale underneath which apparently lurks greed.  Is ours really  “a crime syndicate masquerading as a nation?” How do we take the story of a rented space for Nigeria’s National Library and let us not even think of the astounding rent of over N90 million a year? Please read THE PUNCH story which was brought […]

Tao turns his late father’s request over to a journeyman raconteur – Tola Adenle

Thank you for the update on “Yoruba Engagement Aso Oke” stats.  We must consider the next phase of my dream: a campaign to strengthen our Yoruba consciousness.  I have always kept close to my heart the wishes of my late father, Olaomiitan, guided me to encourage all capable Yoruba: Above two scanned documents are what’s […]

Court free ex-works minister of money-laundering charges – Comments worth sharing

The Punch [Nigeria] http://www.punchng.com/news/court-free-ex-works-minister-of-money-laundering-charges/   Hassan Lawal AND THE SHAME CONTINUES!  May we be told where Lawal obtained nearly fifty million naira to transfer abroad…..sale of family silver,earnings from business or trade by way of dividends,UNARMED ROBBERY etc?  The good judge may be technically on firm ground but ought to know that the high bench, […]

Under an oft-referred to by racists in & outside Congress as “1st Black President”, African-Americans lose two Civil Rights gains in one week!- Tao

Activists hold signs supporting the Voting Rights Act. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty It is a great pity that in the absence of a vibrant democracy and internationally-respected Nigerian state, our potential power for giving leadership and protection  to all Africans inclusive of our Diaspora remains unrealized and a low-yielding stock. In one week, the U S Supreme […]