Joshua Bassey

I've argued before now that Nigerian governors don't deserve the "Excellency" prefix. If anyone doubted me then, Wednesday's action of Yahaya Bello and his "boy" Usman Ododo, in Abuja, has cleared such doubts.

I may not like what seems like a pick- and-choose approach of the EFCC in prosecuting naira abusers, but I sure salute the audacious move by the anti-graft agency to stop the practice. It had become a national embarrassment the way people flung and trampled the naira notes.

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The raids on Chief Edwin Clark's country home by troops of the Nigerian Army diminishes our military. Trying to link this old patriot to terrorism or what exactly?

As we speak, no one knows exactly what the military is doing in Okuama. Why is the military denying the media access to Okuama? It calls for concerns. But again, the killing of the 17 soldiers is condemnable.

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That's the message that Fubara passed across to every mortal that Akpabio chose to trample on and attack. May we remind Akpabio that politics is not everything, neither everything politics.

Little wonder Nigeria continually drift. Thoughtless and flippant people in power, such that even in a place that called for sober reflection, Akpabio was talking politics. Akpabio should ask himself where is Joseph Wayas today, a one time Senate president like him.

Only people who lack deep-thinking would give the kind of flippant reply that Godswill Obot Akpabio gave to Governor Fubara's 'food for thought' message at the Wigwes' funeral in Isiokpo, Rivers State on Saturday.

I feel for Nigerian workers. The present crop of leaders of the labour seem helpless and incapable to provide a direction at this critical time.

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