AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS·MISCELLANEOUS Postscript South Africa’s World Cup spending= $5 billion dollars. Outcomes: 30 hotels; 10 stadia; power stations; h o u sin g estates; cu June 21, 2023
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY On The Edge “To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.” Magna Carta, 1215 All Nigerian November 5, 2014
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY OBASANJO SHOULD CRY, NOT LAUGH It was the caption for practically every lead Story on Nigerian newspapers last Friday, November 26,2010. The old despot, Olusegun Obasanjo, had November 30, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Stephen Osagiede Oronsaye: The absurdities of Nigerian political life Daily Trust recently scooped that Head of Service Stephen Oronsaye “sought a two-year tenure extension” because “he needed the extra two years November 20, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY JONATHAN AND HIS COAST GUARDS It was on Daily Trust’s page 3, of November 2nd, 2010. You might not even have noticed the story; but the nut November 17, 2010
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY GOVERNORS’ FORUM AND THE STRUGGLE WITHIN “If governors will seek to outsmart each other and manipulate a process that is fairly simple and straightforward, how can we expect November 5, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY JONATHAN: PRESIDENCY, WARTS AND ALL The definitive outcome of the events of the past few weeks in Nigeria would summarise as the need to save Goodluck Jonathan October 28, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY What was Tony B-Liar doing in Nigeria? The characters ruling Nigeria have no sense of history or a modicum of honour; otherwise, the last person they’d be inviting to October 24, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY ATIKU VS. JONATHAN: DEMYSTIFICATION CONFRONTS PERMANENT CRIPPLING “Atiku as consensus candidate of the North. Jonathan is going into the battle of his life. If he wins, he’ll demystify the October 24, 2010
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY THOUGHTS OF NIGERIA FROM ABROAD I have spent the past week in Hamburg, Germany, attending the 17th World Editors’ Forum. I have never been to Hamburg, with October 14, 2010