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In response to the suggestion by my respected friend Villager EMJ, I finally got round to reading the paper authored by Nasir El-Rufai (pictured above), the erstwhile Minister of Federal Capital Territory, and my heart literarily bled as I read it all. By the time I was on the last lines of the piece, I had my hand over my wide-open mouth, numbed by the realities that the author captured in not a...

The other day, I was scanning articles and posts on NVS, and I kind of got the impression that everything seemd kind of 'lifeless'. It's as though there's not really anything sufficiently outrageous for authors to sink their teeth into.

Oh, don't get me wrong - there are many, many things wrong with Nigeria, and I'm not going to bore you to death by recounting the usual litany of woes. But the thing is that these are woes that we have had around for a long time, so an article that...