Izuu's Turn

By Pius Adesanmi Copied from this ever-truthful professor! Crawling gradually back into Nigeriana after a busy week, I hear with one ear that the mental carburetor of the average career Jonathanian has been overheating this weekend because of some incident involving their spiritual leader at OAU. I have to read up on that and return with my two and a half kobo later. I also hear that Nigeria's former Foreign Affairs Minister, Gbenga Ashiru, has died in a hospital in South Africa. I am sorry to hear this news. Whatever you may think of him and his political choices and affiliations, he was a fine Nigerian technocrat. However, I am not sorry to hear that he died in a hospital in South Africa. We are getting to a point where the only criterion that the WHO will use in gauging the development of a country's healthcare sector is the data on members of Nigeria's rulership who go there to die. Your hospitals will be deemed underdeveloped only if there is no kn

After watching the grand opening of Governor Akpabio-led administration's stadium at Uyo, certain questions began to jostle for prominence in my mind. My ind immediately went straight to Governor Akpabio's next door neighbour at Abia. Uyo is just about an hour drive from Aba and if someone happens to drive to the opening yesterday through Aba, one will think he just emerged from pre-historic to a digital society. I have come to conclusion that the problem with a good number of Nigerian politicians is not political party affiliation but the absence or presence of one item - shame. The difference between Akpabio and Orji is not party since both belong to the ruling PDP. What I think is that one has shame and the other has none. If Orji is blessed with the virtue of possessing an iota of shame, he would have resigned a long time again and allowed better people to run the affairs of his state. Aba is a complete eye-sore and it is in an oil-producing state. Other south eastern gover