NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY We shouldn’t be welcoming Tony Blair in Nigeria “If leaders may lie, then who should tell the truth?….On what grounds do we decide that Robert Mugabe should go to November 29, 2012
TRIBUTES Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki: 1933-2012 THE passing of Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, last week, triggered an outpouring of tributes from all over the country. The normal attitude November 22, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY President Jonathan ordered, so what? SOME moments stick out in the public space, not just for the drama of the occasion, but for the fundamental impact November 15, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Negotiating with Boko Haram LONG before it became accepted wisdom, I had been an advocate of negotiation with the Islamist organisation, Boko Haram. At a point November 8, 2012
TRAVELOGUE Travel, thoughts, and observations I AM writing these lines at the Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris. I’m on transit to Abuja, after a troubling transatlantic flight November 1, 2012