While we had a 50-50 chance of surmounting our detractors if we had risen in unison as we did against the third term agenda of Obasanjo, we decided to applaud evil. And that is why today dictatorship has ended on paper but its belligerent components are... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/102706.html
The question to ask is what Nigeria is doing and how it is taking the Swedish challenge. The visit by President Obasanjo to Stockholm to meet with Prime Minister Goran Persson some weeks ago was not just a mark of cordial courtesy, but a sign that Nigeria... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/121004.html
Obasanjo might have described Umar Yaradua as his worthy successor because, as he claims, he wants someone to continue with his legacies. But Nigeria as it is today and with all its malaise is waiting for a leader with a vision who would transcend... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/122906.html
IBB has Jerry Gana to contend with in Niger where the Gana’s people are known to spare no human when it comes to defending their own. Atiku, we all know, has lost Adamawa to the combined forces of Professor Jubril Aminu and General Buba Marwa. IBB and... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/120906.html
The current rotten-egg-peddling between the president and his vice force us to re-examine the sanity of the people in charge of our affairs. ...a transition from prisoner to president in a country of over a hundred million is, indeed, the apex of good... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/091606.html
So, why are the same Nigerians condemning the messenger for the few errors (I admit there are a few errors in the compiled list) rather than declare that this list has been long over due and should have included a lot more names than it did. We know, too... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/021307.html
The simple and logical view of most people I know is that religious fundamentalists have unleashed their fanaticism on Jos and turned the serene and peaceful town and by extension Plateau state, from that loveable Mecca, to a terrorist territory that... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/101006.html
It is that time of the year when everyone makes a resolution to curb his bad habits and imbibe good ones. I wonder if our politicians do the same. Knowing that the impulsive answer from most Nigerians to this rhetorical question would be a NO, NIX, I am... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/010505.html
It is obvious that to Mantu the difference between greatness and notoriety is like that between the egg and the broiler, making it obvious that he does not understand the difference between a condom and a parachute.... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/111203.html