It could not hae been a co-incidence that the report of the Justice Uwais Committee on Electoral Reform was released on the eve of the Supreme Court judgment on the 2007 General
At the heart of my recent visit to Eritrea, was the interview session that I had with Isaias Afewerki, the President of that country. The 74-minute interview was broadcast on Eritrean television,
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FORMER President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, was obviously caught up in a moment of effusiveness last weekend,
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Sometime in the month of June 1983, Vice President, Alex Ekuweme, during one of his campaign rallies, was reported as saying that the austerity measures his government clamped down on the country,
During the 1980s, I was very actively involved in the Nigerian trade union movement. I had been elected as the chairman of my local chapter of the Radio, Television and Theatre Workers’
During an international anti-apartheid conference in November 1988, Ike Nwachukwu, Nigeria’s External Affairs Minister, seized the opportunity of the august gathering, to remount the old hobby horse of Nigerian foreign policy- demands
Mankind is in a state of constant change. “The journalist’s task is to write about and, in a sense, promote changes, to prevent society from becoming ossified. Journalists should always test the
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The news broke out early this week that representatives of the government of Sudan and the
The death, this week, of Walter Sisulu, at the age of 90 years, represented a major
A major step to protect the legality of the general strike called by the Nigeria Labour
After a remarkable build up of expectation, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir
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Dr. Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, former Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has emphasized the need for
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I have been fascinated by writing about people, places and events for decades; and I have therefore written about, commented on, and analysed, the African Culture, condition, as well as the international situation, at several levels.
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My earliest encounter with Chinua Achebe was not the usual “suspect”; his trailblazing work, Things Fall Apart. That came a bit later. I had my earliest encounter with Africa’s greatest writer, with Chike And The River. It was set in Onitsha, against the backdrop of
