NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY EL-RUFAI, OBASANJO AND ABUJA LAND GRAB A few years ago, the Management of Media Trust Limited was in some difficult search for the appropriately located plot of land February 11, 2016
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS·MISCELLANEOUS 9/11 GAVE MUSLIM YOUTHS A KEENER TONGUE – NATIVEDEEN Native Deen is an Islamic musical group based in America. Joshua Salaam, Abdul-Malik and Naeem Muhammed make up the group. Recently, Native September 3, 2015
TRIBUTES THE WIEIGHT OF NOSTALGIA I spent a few days in London last week. As is my wont, I spent a good part of the short stay June 3, 2014
MISCELLANEOUS CHIEF SUNDAY AWONIYI NOW HE WON’T WRITE THE PREFACE Rather like a punch-drunk boxer, I have spent the past week, since the news broke, in real confusion about how to go December 6, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Aminu Tambuwwal And PDP’s Zoning Banana Peel: Slippery Wages Of Expediency Surely, we cannot continue to allow individuals and groups to do what they liked and undermine our unity, cohesion and effectiveness. Henceforth, we June 9, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY MOVING ON THE RAILWAYS TRACK let me start with a confession. This is one of those weeks when I cannot really make up my mind about what June 19, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY DAVID MARK AT 60 This week, the Nigerian newspapers have been full of advertisements congratulating Senator David Mark, on his sixtieth birthday. Even president Umar Yar’Adua April 8, 2008
ARTS & LITERATURE·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY CONTESTING THE TERRAIN OF CULTURE “In order to make economic and political occupation complete and effective, the coloniser tried also to control the cultural environment – education, December 4, 2007
TRIBUTES TRIBUTE: CHIEF SUNDAY AWONIYI NIGERIA IS ONE HEAD SHORTER When about two weeks ago, the story broke that Chief Sunday Awoniyi had escape death in an accident on the Kaduna-Abuja Express November 30, 2007
ILORIN ALHAJI A.G.F. ABDULRAZAQ AT 80 I think it was on his seventy-fifth Birthday, five years ago, that Alhaji Abdul Ganiyu Folorunsho Abdulrazaq, give me a very extensive November 15, 2007