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2. Corruption Goodluck Jonathan: "Ordinary, common stealing Nigerians will start shouting corruption", "If I arrest all corrupt Nigerians,who will run the government?"...these are rather hilarious quotes attributed to GEJ but which I personally cannot verify as true. However, they are in tandem with GEJ's ideology as it concerns fighting corruption.  GEJ believes that corruption is best fought,not by prosecuting and treating corrupt officials harshly but by making it difficult for them to derail.  To do this, he has touted the use of Information Technology and changes in the way the Government engages in businesses. Examples are the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme which provides direct support to farmers thereby cutting off middlemen who may steal from it and Project Aquila which is an e-loading process of petroleum products that has been introduced in order to prevent the diversion of loaded products by truck drivers. There are also changes in pension ...

In a perfect world, political discourse will be issue-driven. Unfortunately, we are not in such a world as even the western countries still have signs of racial, gender and religious-based sentiments when it comes to political squabbles. However, these countries have significantly based their politics around prevalent issues than anything else.One sign of this is how politicians and the electorate align themselves with the political party that best reflects their views on how a given problem should be solved in the Country. You cannot find a progressive-minded politician or citizen in a right-wing political party and vice-versa. Even though a politicians may have some ideas minutely different from those widely held by the party, the core ideology remains the same, and when it does change, the politician moves to a party that more reflects his new ideology. In Nigeria and as it concerns politics, gender, tribe,religious affiliations are the deciding factors even as early as d...

This is a story of a multi-talented man from a small town called Yoribohau...his name was Oluwasola Gozie Balewa or OGB as he was fondly called. OGB was a maven...he could dance, he could sing, he was good at acting, he was good at archery, he could swim, he was a very good hunter and a farmer...name it and OGB could do it exceptionally well. As a boy, OGB used all his talents...not one was neglected. He became the toast of the town and everyone could see that OGB was a blessing to his family and community and it was generally felt that his family would be prosperous in no distant time. As time went by, thing were getting better for OGB and his family and he continued making use of all his talents. However, at one point there was news that a certain talent could fetch OGB more money and fame faster than his other talent could…this talent was wrestling. This talent became in demand as communities far and wide paid and invested so much in wrestlers and wrestling. Prior to this, OGB...