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The Verdict by Olusegun Adeniyi It remains for me the most memorable moment in the movie. The captain was informing the ship owner (who had bought into the lie that no force on earth or in heaven could sink the Titanic) that the ship had hit an iceberg. “From this moment, no matter what we do, the Titanic will founder,” he said. Having put so much faith in his own propaganda, the ship owner retorted: “But this ship cannot sink.” Without missing a beat, the captain responded: “She is made of iron, Sir. I assure you she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty.” Because those who survive on rent in our country are adept at marketing their greed, they always succeed in selling to whoever occupies the number one office in Nigeria at any period that he is not only above the law, he is so powerful that he can never be defeated in an election. But with the current defeat of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan by Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), it i...

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Hello everyone, Our guest columnist today raises a pertinent issue exemplified by the rise of Boko Haram. It is summed up in the dictum that, "those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable". As someone who has traversed the corridoors of power as spokesman to the immediate past President of Nigeria and an international Harvard Scholar he knows a lot about the African power dynamics. We see this playing out in Zimbabwe where the current Vice President is being turfed out by the Presidents wife. While it is not wrong for outgoing politicians to seek to influence their choice of successors it is vital that they do this without shutting down the political space. Freedom and social justice can never be overestimated. Happy reading guys. THE VERDICT By OLUSEGUN ADENIYI; olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com At a campaign podium about three weeks ago, the otherwise urbane and very restrained Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State made a ra...

Notes on the Coming Economic Crunch Postscript By Waziri Adio, Email: waziri.adio@thisdaylive.com Despite the spirited attempts by some officials to put a calm face on things, something is coming at us, and it is not pretty. It is a major economic crisis, fuelled by the slump in the price of crude oil. The coming crisis may be short or it may be long. But come, it will. So we need to brace up for the uncertainties of the lean time, a period that will be made even more unpleasant by the fact that we have left ourselves very little wriggle room. We need competent and clear-headed management of the economic crisis to ensure that it does not complicate existing crises on the social and security fronts. The omens have been in plain sight for a while now, with dwindling oil revenues at a time of sustained high oil prices, with persistent wrangling over allocations at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), with the consistent depletion of the...

Nigeria's Schism DIALOGUE WITH NIGERIA BY AKIN OSUNTOKUN  F ormer military head of state and elder statesman, General Yakubu Gowon, cuts a quixotic figure of history and complicates the taxonomy of the 1966-70 era of Nigeria’s history. If you have not heard of taxonomy before, you are not alone-you are, in fact, in the majority. ‘Taxonomy is one of those words that most people never hear or use. Basically, a taxonomy is a way to group things together’ and a less specific but more familiar synonym would be classification. So what was the taxonomy of this most problematic era? Originally the taxonomy was the Eastern region versus the Northern region and then it widened to become the Northern region (plus Western region) versus the Eastern region. There was also the overlapping classification of the Army hawks of both Eastern and Northern regions versus one another. The former was headed by the late Ikemba Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, while the latter was...

The Lessons Beyond the Tears The Verdict By Olusegun Adeniyi;olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com "Something interesting happened on my way to Oshodi this morning. At the motor park, this rough mean-looking conductor was screaming for passengers, his vernacular oscillating between Yoruba and Pidgin English. “Oshodi! Oshodi!” he shouted angrily as I, along with some other passengers, struggled for seats. There was this beautiful young lady who couldn’t throw caution and decorum to the wind but waited patiently until the bus was almost filled. Then she pleaded to sit by the conductor until somebody came down, when she would have a proper seat. "The bus conductor didn’t even look at her pretty face; he hissed and shouted at the driver to move, while asking the girl why she didn’t rush like the other passengers. The girl started pleading in Yoruba interspersed with English before saying, “I know you are a good man, never mind the fact that you have been sh...