NAME-DROPPING

Our Federal allocation is exclusively for our people.
Sir, Our attention has been drawn to the wicked and unfounded reports in the Nigerian press that we intend to ban non-indigenes from public schools. We are not planning to ban non-indigenes from public schools. We don't need to. But we stand by our decision and insist on our rights to impose school fees on outsiders who want to attend our schools. We devised school fees for non-indigenes so that if they are unable to pay they are excluded. Now, that is not the same thing as banning them!
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OPEN LETTERS

Anti-Corruption crusade: “We want Quantity, not Quality!”

April 9, 2005

Dear Mr President,

I wish to make a request for a pass to Aso Rock to come and pay my respects and to congratulate you for your recent assault on corruption. But it’s not going to be all praises as I intend to seize the opportunity to give you a piece of my mind on the selective nature of your assault and your narrow definition of corruption.
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FRANKLY SPEAKING

Innocent armed robber?
WOULD you believe it? The other day, police in the eastern Nigerian town of Enugu received the shock of their lives.
An armed robber who had been executed stood up, pleaded for water, mourned his own death and assured 20,000 stupefied onlookers
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