JOS KILLINGS AND THE ROOTS OF OUR NATIONAL CRISES
“On the surface, the recurrent violence is driven by the crisis of citizenship and the constitutional dichotomy between “indigenes’’ and “settlers’. But
OBASANJO AND THE PERVERSION OF HONOUR AND MORALITY
“If you take up an appointment, a job, elected, appointed, whatever it is and then your health starts saying “I will not
WELCOME TO OJUELEGBA…BUT POLICEMAN NO DEY FOR CENTRE!
During the heady days of military dictatorship oil boom in the 1970s, the Ojuelegba roundabout became a byword for road use chaos
THE MORE WE SEE, THE LESS SENSE THINGS MAKE
A week can be a pretty long time in politics. Last week, saw the height of spin when Tanimu Yakubu, Yar’adua’s Economic
JONATHAN’S 6,000 MEGAWATTS OF CONTRITION
“At the inception of this administration, we promised to drastically improve access to electricity by the end of2009. …Our target, which was
Umar Faruk Mutallab: The socio-psychological roots of terrorism.
The attempted bombing of a trans-Atlantic airliner on Christmas day, brought an unwelcome search light to Nigeria, with discovery that would-be bomber
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).
Goodluck Jonathan’s angels-from-the-moon theory of electioneering
“I always tell people that even if you conduct presidential election 100 times and bring angels from the moon to conduct
Obasanjo, the north and the politics of presidential health
I returned to Nigeria on Monday facing the daunting task of trying to read the pile of newspapers of the past week
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