FEMI FANI-KAYODE: REWARDING RUDENESS
Three weeks ago, I had written on this page that the events leading to the defeat of the third term agenda have
RE-ENGAGING WITH OUR NATIONAL REALITY
The last time I wrote on this page was on March 24, 2005. The new-fangled anti corruption drive had revved into top
OF POLITICS, AND THE PAINS OF FOOTBALL
Two weeks can be an awfully long time in the politics of Nigeria. In the past two weeks, I have been away
NIGER DELTA: MY FEARS FOR OUR COUNTRY
“In 2005 while in War College we went on tour to Rivers and the participants asked about the security of the BONGA
ILORIN: BETWEEN THE DICTATES OF CULTURE AND THE PULL OF ECONOMICS
It was the famous scholar, Sheikh Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory, who once wrote that the impact which Ilorin has made on the history
THE Missing NNPC BILLIONS
The nation’s cash cow, the Nigeria national petroleum corporation (NNPC) is up for reinventing, though it has, in a way begun; with
MAN REPORT ON THE ECONOMY: FACTS ARE STUBBORN
It is truly amazing that Nigerians live each day, inundated with statistical obfuscation, about the alleged growth that Obasanjo’s economic team is
ZIMBABWE: A MIDDLE ROAD LEADING NO WHERE
It is part of the baggage of its history that people cannot be in different to whatever happens to Zimbabwe. Its present
THE NNPC CASH COW AND THE KLEPTOCRATIC DESPOT
In the lead to the 2003 elections, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) came out with a report that over
OBASANJO: THE MAN, HIS LIBRARY AND RELATED MATTERS
How lawful, how ethical, how appropriate is it for OBJ to publicly launch and collect donations of N4b, for an OBJ presidential