Friday Columnists
Gaddafi: ‘Mad man’ or ‘visionary’? (2)

MY TAKE By Mohammed Adamu

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Inmate To Inmate

Last week I was saying that although psychologically the search for the boundary between ‘sanity’ and ‘madness’ may be more academic than practical, yet like the late Guyanese stand-up comedian, Roy, once said in a caustic racial jab “When you see a white man chewing GUM and a cow chewing its CUD, you know where the intelligence lies”. 

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Nigerians’ love-hate relationship with government

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED By Moses Ochonu 

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Nigerians have an ambivalent view of government. On one level, they are disgusted with the entity. They are even distrustful of it, preferring to be left outside of its orbit to lick the wounds inflicted on them by those who call themselves leaders and bureaucrats. 

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Gaddafi: ‘Mad man’ or ‘visionary’? (1)

MY TAKE By Mohammed Adamu

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“Insanity is often the logic of accurate mind overtaxed” –Oliver Wendell Holmes  

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Federal character has outlived its relevance

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED By Moses Ochonu 

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Federal Character. It’s Nigeria’s version of affirmative action, our effort, so say its proponents, to ensure that our public institutions are peopled in a manner that reflects our demographic diversity. It is, on paper, a mechanism for accessing public goods and privileges in a manner consistent with our ethno-regional plurality. 

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Distilling the Jos SMS

MY TAKE By Mohammed Adamu

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Below are some classified messages resulting from my piece, ‘Jos: Now That The Aggressor Is The Victim.’ Happy reading. 

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