Nigeria: Is Egalitarian society a mirage in our clime?

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest_ – Nelson Mandela The news about the “Presidential award” to the highest echelons of the military, dropped like a bombshell. I was awestruck by the outlandish retirement packages approved for military officers by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, penultimate week. What a provocative and wasteful gesture! Another slap in the face of the longsuffering, ever-rugged Nigerians, sucked in by a docile and mentally conquered populace? They say silence means consent. I am more…

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