Fuel Subsidy Funds: Nigeria’s ‘Penkele Messi’
All Nigerians have known for a long while that the fuel subsidy funds were slush funds: used to oil the wheels of
Owoye Azazi’s Nigerian ‘Guantanamo Base’ Detention Centre
Last week, Nigerian newspapers carried a report from the Associated Press (AP), that a secret detention centre to hold and interrogate “suspected
United States: Back in the belly of the whale
THE circumstance has made it almost impossible to write this week’s piece. I am in Las Vegas, in the US state of
Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon: Man of God, adovocate of peaceful co-existence
A FEW weeks ago, I sent a text message to the Anglican Bishop of Kaduna, Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon. It was a message that
Kano’s mass wedding for widows
BARRING last minute hitches, if WEEKLY TRUST of Saturday, April 7 is to be believed, the city of Kano, will soon make history. It
Deconstructing Obasanjo’s PDP BOT resignation
OBASANJO is quite personable- much of the time-and…like most rulers, he desperately wanted to be accepted as a political and economic strategist, and
There is no hiding place for Nigeria’s political opposition
LAST week, a few events significantly impacted upon my thoughts about our country. The first was the national response to Bola Tinubu’s