TRAVELOGUE Travelling in America I am writing these lines around 7 am in Buena Park, California, but it is close to 3 pm on Tuesday afternoon October 25, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Olusegun Mimiko: A victory foretold The last time I saw the Ondo state governor, Olusegun Mimiko, was about six months ago. The buildup to the recent election October 25, 2012
MISCELLANEOUS The Sultan, Archbishop Onaiyekan, CAN in the North: Significant gestures for peace When the story broke recently, that both the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’adAbubakar and Archbishop John Onayekan, had been nominated for October 25, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Olusegun Mimiko’s date with Destiny This weekend the people of Ondo state will vote for a new governor. Four years ago, I supported Olusegun Mimiko’s candidacy. Given October 18, 2012
ARTS & LITERATURE Chinua Achebe, Biafra and the travesties of war (2) “As we reached the brink of full-blown war it became clear to me that the chaos enveloping all of us in Nigeria October 18, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Northern governors just raised the political stakes In the lead to the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP’s candidate for the 2011 election, I wrote a piece October 12, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Kwankwaso, Ekwueme and state creation THE Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has become something close to a hate figure for many circles in Southern Nigeria October 11, 2012
ARTS & LITERATURE Chinua Achebe, Biafra and the travesties of war 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 October 11, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo and Babangida: A vicarious responsibility for the nation’s woes? The people of this country must not allow whatever sense of frustration, fear and despair we are experiencing now, to supercede our October 2, 2012