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,
A week can be a pretty long time in politics. Last week, saw the height of spin when Tanimu Yakubu, Yar’adua’s Economic Adviser turned himself into a megaphone of sorts, telling Nigerians
“At the inception of this administration, we promised to drastically improve access
“I always tell people that even if you conduct presidential election
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It is testimony to Professor Attahiru Jega’s standing in Nigerian society, that there has been a
(Please read today’s piece to the accompaniment of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s classic song, SHUFFERIN’ AND SHMILIN’) LAST
FOR Malam Abba Kyari, former MD of UBA, two institutions are central to the consolidation of
POLITICAL life interests me a great deal. That is one of the reasons I studied Political
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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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When I read the comments of many perplexed Nigerians who queried President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for
“I must say that today is a sad day for me. And I think it should
The Washington Post recently revealed that American President, George W. Bush has authorized the Central Intelligence
At a recent meeting of the Bretton Woods institutions, the IMF and World Bank, held in
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I woke up on Thursday, May 29th, 2025, to a tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o, written
Dear Dr Is’haq Modibbo Kawu. I am delighted to inform you that you have been
I left Ilorin on Friday morning (March 7th, 2025). I was back home for a
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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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DIDN’T remember to tell you yesterday, but I’ve just finished reading Achebe’s THERE WAS A COUNTRY. I’m amazed at his cavalier attitude to basic facts of history and the strident tone of victimhood along with the inability to see anything wrong with Biafra. Not
