KWARA Nomads, farmers, conflicts and changing patterns of climate LAST week, the Kwara state government took a decision to open new grazing reserves, to stem the growing patterns of conflict between January 30, 2014
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Nigerian politics and the cynical manipulation of religion IT was Shehu Usman Dan Fodiyo who once warned that a political society can endure with unbelief, but it will sooner, rather January 30, 2014
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY The more you see, the less incomprehensible the ways of govt EARLY this week, the Rule of Law Collective (TRLC), described as “a civic platform comprising Nigerians from all walks of life who January 23, 2014
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY PDP party chairmanship: The ultimate poisoned chalice. THE online news medium, PREMIUM TIMES, was spot on in the title of its report: “How PDP disgraced six of its seven January 23, 2014
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Worrisome portents from Borno Worrisome portents from Borno EARLY this week, reports emerged in the media that former Borno state governor, Ali Modu Sheriff (SAS), returned January 16, 2014
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Discordant tunes for the National conference “The Nwabueze-led group has clearly gone beyond the bounds of decency and decorum by fabricating a report purely from their own imagination January 16, 2014
MISCELLANEOUS Nigerian billionaires and the Nigerian condition LAST Friday, January 3, 2014, VANGAURD newspaper, like other Nigerian newspapers, carried a report sourced from FORBES magazine, titled “The Biggest African January 9, 2014
MISCELLANEOUS Obasanjo’s letter: Next Iyabo, and then Jonathan. A rather tongue-in-cheek observation was posted on a closed internet site last week. In response to the letters that have held Nigerians January 2, 2014
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Meltdown In South Sudan In 2006, I was the only Nigerian journalist attending John Garang’s funeral ceremony in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. I was January 1, 2014