NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jonathan’s super minister WHEN the story broke last week, that Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had ORDERED Information Minister, Labaran Maku, to April 25, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY What really happened in Baga? IT took the international media, last weekend to alert Nigerians to the massacre of innocent people that took place in Baga, the April 25, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY It’s a presidential directive: Capture 32 states “We have a presidential mandate to move beyond 23 states in our control and win at least 32”– PDP National Chairman, Alhaji April 18, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Sule Lamido and Jigawa’s television vision I AM writing these lines in the JIGAWA HOTELS room that I have been lodged in since Monday evening. I have come to April 18, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY The Boko Haram amnesty committe: I’m with President Jonathan on that THERE has not been much to valorise in the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, as far as I am concerned; and I April 11, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Kayode Fayemi’s delightful Ekiti State A CONFESSION is in order at the beginning of this piece. Kayode Fayemi, the Ekiti State governor is my friend. I rooted for April 11, 2013
TRIBUTES Margaret Thatcher: Heroine of capitalism,enemy of the people WHEN Margaret Thatcher died on Monday, we were guaranteed an outpouring of emotions as diverse and divided as she was in her April 11, 2013
TRAVELOGUE Tales and travails of travel I LEFT Abuja last Friday morning to celebrate the Easter holiday in Ilorin. I had not been back home since the first April 4, 2013