Author: Abdul Gombe

IT’s a most unlikely crime scene. I travelled by road from the Benin airport to Uromi, Esanland’s most significant town, for a wedding about three years ago. The fear of kidnappers is a constant worry for road users. I was nervous for nearly four hours of the taxi ride, especially as we turned off the busy Agbor Road and veered onto narrow, lonely roads meandering through many forested small towns and villages. I was nervous. When the driver ran into a pothole, and a loud noise suggested we might have lost a wheel or something, I insisted he should keep…

FOR every beginning, there must be an end. It will may come when anticipated or prior to the expected time. The sure thing is that the end will definitely come. This altruism applies to life generally, talk more of an appointment to a public office with a tenure. Therefore, about two weeks ago when workers at the headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja chose to stage a show of shame in public, one will naturally wonder about the rationality of their action on one hand and bemoan the depth of corruption in public service on the other…