People have argued that what remains of this democracy is all spin. If one did not concur at first, this is the sign of spin. Big time! Or how does one explain this registration of Abacha's parties in a country that is so obsessed and preoccupied with... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/062602.html
The South west group is obsessed with democracy, yet it does not believe that a democratic solution to a national calamity will lead us anywhere. As far as they are concerned, Obasanjo's misadventure is a permissible calamity, just as pro-Abacha... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/090202.html
Farther from the Iranian example where it is argued that Shari’a is failing because of incompetent clerics, we have here a group of insincere leaders who are making one law for the common man and another for themselves and their families. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/080202.html
If reps operate constituency offices with staff, there would be fewer hooligans to deploy at the slightest provocation, even fewer to be throwing stones and we will be spared the trauma of having to argue over stones as if it were some constitutional item. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/052002.html
Obj may have his honest reserves of goodwill, but remaining in office after 2003 may blow them towards collusion course with whatever remains of the goodwill of the people that he now enjoys. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/042902.html
But to now turn around and pledge government support to PDP candidates against those of other parties is, first and foremost, to stir up our worst fears. The governor’s own worst fears regarding his waning popularity, the ripples of which go beyond the... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/080602.html
What is there for the military to explain? With all the budgetary allocations over twenty eight years of misrule they have not been able to secure their own cantonment from disaster instead they have money-bags scrambling for political office because they... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/062902.html
Na’abba should not also think that he is home and dry just by taking his hands off house finances. When reps at a joint session complained of non-payment of their salaries, Anyim’s show of surprise was a coded message and only a tip of the iceberg. There... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/052602.html
He (Obasanjo)has fallen apart with the east, publicly insulted Ojukwu, lambasted chiefs of the south-south, assaulted the Tivs, and starved the north of development and in spite of all that, he has faith in his Tazarce agenda. To conclude that his thinking... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/062102.html
Uba was not a man to be left in the lurch. Like most Igbos with questionable wealth he wants to be known. And like most Igbos with questionable wealth, no matter how sordid the circumstances of their fame, it is how far and wide their fame or notoriety... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/bello/071603.html
