THE PARTY IS DEAD, LONG MAY BABA REIGN
A buildup of emotions can sometimes shift us away from the surety of cold rational analysis; little wonder people often admonish that
NIGERIAN MEDIA CRISIS RESPONSE
It was a very angry Shola Odunfa who filed a live report on the BBC World Television that Sunday afternoon, many hours
Away from home, but just like home
There really is no running away from Nigeria. In all my years of travel around our very lovely world, Nigeria has a
The Yuguda brand of political opportunism
Last weekend. President Yari\dua and the PDP leadership relocated to Bauchi to welcome back the president’s son-in-law, Isa Yuguda, govemor of Bauchi
A wrong turn on the rail track
At the end of last week’s FEC meeting, Minister of Transportation, Ibrahim Bio, announced a number of decisions taken in respect of
Of Guinea and intimate tales origin
I am writing these lines from Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea. Like the good Count, Don Quixote De La
Nnamdi ‘Andy’ Uba: A fitting finale for fraud
“The appellant has been shuttling from one court to another on a matter that the Supreme Court had already delivered jugement. The
The interminable paralysis of the ANPP
Last Friday, an agitated member of the All Nigeria People’s Party [ANPP] made a very angry call to me. He complained that
Nigerian economy of Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola
It was Lenin who once described politics as a concentrated expression of economics. I retunred to Nigerian last weekend and ran into
May 29: Which democracy? What manner of country?
Expectedly, members of the ruling elite in our country will be back-slapping with vigour this week; it iw ten years since the