TRAVELOGUE Delightful Delta State I RETURNED to Abuja on an afternoon flight from Asaba, the Delta State capital, last Sunday. We had been attending the 9th August 29, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Olusegun Obasanjo’s selective amnesia “It is sad that after 53 years of independence we have no leader that we can commend. Then, we are jinxed and August 22, 2013
TRIBUTES IBB @ 72 LAST weekend, former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida turned 72. There was an effusive outpouring of birthday messages, with Nigerian newspapers August 22, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Let us teach our children History I DON’T know if it is apocryphal, but I read that students in Ikenne, the Ogun state homestead of the late Chief Obafemi August 13, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Vice President Namadi Sambo’s Islamic Development Bank loan EARLY this week, reports emerged that Vice President Namadi Sambo, on behalf of the Federal Government, had “sought the support of the Islamic August 13, 2013
ARTS & LITERATURE Music, radio and life TWO weeks ago, I wrote a longish essay on aspects of Nigerian music, which surprised quite a few readers, including Uncle Sam Amuka, August 1, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Alhaji Umaru Dikko, nostalgia and PDP’s politics A WEEK can be a very long time in politics. This is even truer within the pressure cooker ambiance of Nigerian politics. Two August 1, 2013