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
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Many unaware of Nigeria’s role in South Africa’s liberation Manir Dan Ali, Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, Aisha Umar- Yusuf & Adie Vanessa Offiong WEEKLY Trust: You have said once before that it March 6, 2010
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Nigeria’s governance from everywhere, anywhere or nowhere If a serving public official deserves an award for presumptuous audacity, it would have to be Nigeria’s Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa (SAN). December 23, 2009
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY The president’s health: Setting up northern straw men to heat up the polity Olusegun Adeniyi, Presidential Aviser on Media, was an august visitor in my house on Sallah day. We spoke about the decision to December 2, 2009
MISCELLANEOUS A Knighthood for Lucky Omoluwa Daily Trust of Monday, November 23, 2009, carried a picture of Lucky Omoluwa after his investiture as a Knight of St. Sylvester November 25, 2009
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Nigeria’s children of forced migration and capitalis globalization It was Langton Hughes the great African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that once asked in his 1951 collection November 5, 2009
TRAVELOGUE Futa Djallon’S marriage party JOURNALISM often has its lucky moments; those periods when the reporter chances upon what might seem insignificant but could become a useful October 31, 2009
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Buhari’s anti-docility angst Last Sunday, General Buhari attended the public lecture organized by the Movement for Better Future at the Arewa House in Kaduna. At October 28, 2009
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Nigeria: Between momentary pessimism and incurable optimisme “You can call me a blasphemer. I dispute the scripture’s assertion that God is everywhere. He is not present in the heart October 1, 2009
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS David Mark: Jingoism as impolitic refuge “The most immediate source of the disconnect between Nigeria’s wealth and its poverty is a failure of governance at (all) levels…. Lack August 20, 2009