Ahmed Dodo

Recently our dear country has been grappling with the menace of insecurity occasioned by the terrorist activities of some known and unknown groups. This has resulted in an imminent threat to that thinning fabric that was hitherto holding the various units of the country together. However it is not only the acts of terrorism that is challenging the corporate existence of Nigeria. The conduct of our public office holders has been identified as yet another possible cause of the present state of insecurity. For several years now, the sharing of the “National Cake” has almost assumed a constitutional status, where public servants and politicians criminally enrich themselves with impunity to the detriment of the populace.  Most patriotic Nigerians who would have otherwise teamed up with the security agencies to fight the prevailing insecurity are reluctant to do so when considering the high rate of corruption in the polity. Public corruption ultimately carries in its wake extreme reacti...

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -Voltaire To be sincere, I have never seen or met General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida a.k.a IBB, Maradona, the gap-toothed general, evil genius, the general on the hill top and so on, in person.   The closest I have ever come across or seen the alluring general was on TV, newspaper or magazine.   Being a Nigerian, naturally compelled me to   hear, know and see him on TV , hear his calm soft-spoken voice on radio or see his famous gap-toothed   smile in some of the   newspapers and magazines that were still lucky and bold to be floating during his long martial rule   as Nigerian military   president. As a reader and writer , I have been fortunate to read and hear many of his utterances and actions, including the many gossips and hear say about him. And as time goes on, I became facilitated and at the same time awed about this Nigerian that has still remained a...