NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY What are we to make of the NNPC audit report? It was in the lead to the last election, that Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Maduekwe, was reported to have said that the “Forensic April 30, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY That order on AIT: An unnecessary faux pas The story broke on Monday night. Security advisers of president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, allegedly barred an AIT crew from covering activities of their principal April 30, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Mutual recriminations, history and a wedding Last Thursday morning, I received one of those annoying messages trending about issues arising from the recent elections. It was a quotation from April 22, 2015
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS South Africa’s xenophobic hysteria. Last Sunday, April 19, the alliance of the African National Congress, ANC, South African Communist Party, SACP, and the Congress of April 21, 2015
MISCELLANEOUS Chibok girls: Sore on our conscience ON the first anniversary of the abduction of the 219 Chibok Girls, this week, the whole world returned to a troubled conscience. April 16, 2015
ARTS & LITERATURE What a week: Eduardo Galeano, Gunter Grass and Percy Sledge On Monday night, the BBC’s NEWSHOUR programme, reported the passing of the Uruguayan leftwing writer, Eduardo Galeano 74, and the German writer, April 16, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Guber elections: Wish list fulfilled I HAVE spent most of the weekend in hearty celebration, because of the fulfillment of my wish for the success of a selection of April 16, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Old order changeth: Those we won’t miss DEMOCRACY is a remarkable way of organising human society. It throws up often, unlikely individuals into the public and social spaces of April 9, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Governor Kashim Shettima and my gubernatorial wish list This weekend, Nigerians return to the polls to choose governors for most of our states, as well as legislators for state Houses April 9, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Muhammadu Buhari: A historical turning point The story filtered out by late evening on Tuesday evening this week. President Goodluck Jonathan had placed a call to General Muhammadu April 2, 2015