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
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Northern governors are taking us to Northern Cameroun I cannot vouch for its veracity, but I have heard it from several sources: it was said that after the inauguration of September 15, 2010
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Politics in a season of cholera It was the great Latin American w riter and Nobel Laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who became known as the exemplar of magical September 9, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY SANUSI AND LUBECK: SPEAKING OUT FOR AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION In the past few weeks, we have been sucked into the controversial zoning debate. Some have interrogated the passionate intensity, insisting we August 12, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Isa Yuguda: The wages of political opportunism For political opportunists like Isa Yuguda, it does not rain, it pours! And it is clear Yuguda is getting his comeuppance SO June 29, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY IF JONATHAN KNEW THE BOMBERS, WHY DIDN’T HE STOP THEM? “We know those behind the attack and the persons sponsoring them; they are terrorists not MEND. The name of MEND that operates June 29, 2010
KWARA Hajiya Raliat Abdulrazaq: “Maama” At 80 Last weekend Hajiya Raliat AbdulRazaq, wife of the Mutawali ofllorin, Alhaji AGF AbdulRazaq, the first lawyer in Northern Nigeria, celebrated her 80th June 2, 2010
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA: THE TRUTH WE OWE THE DEAD “During times of universal deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act“— George Orwell I met President Yar’adua only once. A few May 13, 2010
ARTS & LITERATURE Western Sahara: The vivid colours of desert life DESERT life is very grey, drab and pitiless. The days and nights can be very cold an d punishingly windy. This is April 9, 2010