NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY UMARU YAR’ ADUA: PLUS CA CHANGE “Yar’ Adua is under considerable pressure to assert his authority when he assumes office…and not allow himself to dictated to…despite the pressure…(Yar’Adua) May 31, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY AHMADU ALI AND THE WHEELS OF FORTUNE “Democracy the world over is endangered by its practioners. In the third world, the tendency to autocracy and the sheer personalization of May 24, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY SULE LAMIDO:GOLDFISH AND ITS HIDING PLACE Last week, Alhaji Sule Lamido, veteran politician with roots in the old NEPU/PRP tradition, visited our office as the governor-elect of Jigawa May 24, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY OBASANJO’S LAST MINUTE ASSET-STRIPPING I have asked several people the same questions over and over and over again, since last week. Will the fraudulent, in-your-face, brazen May 24, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY OLABODE GEORGE’S NEW CAP AND SUNDRY ISSUES “We have delivered the mandate given to us, which was to ensure that our party emerged victorious in the elections. We have May 10, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY THE WHOLE WORLD CAN’T BE WRONG Three weeks after the electoral process that has been condemned as the most fraudulent in Nigeria’s history that fate of our dear May 3, 2007