The corrupt have inherited our country
“The rulers who steal Nigerian’s future and a poor man who steals a yam at the market are judged very differently. Pinch
Bracing up for Nigeria’s future
It could not have been a co-incidence that the report of the Justice Uwais Committee on Electoral Reform was released on the
Catching a whiff of Kenya
I spent last week in Nairobi, the Kenya capital. We had travelled, members of our Board of Editors, to hold a session
BETWEEN THE PRIEST AND THE POLICE CHIEF
Last week, I had quoted the report from DAILY TRUST of Wednesday, August 15, 2007, on the statement from the Most Reverend
THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE BURIED THIRD TERM
I spent the better part of Tuesday afternoon receiving phone calls from people from around the country. These have been congratulatory calls
THE ARROGANCE OF CRONY CAPITALISM
If we ever needed convincing, about how desperate the Obasanjo clique would go, in pursuit of the illegal third term Project, the
AN UNFULFILING FINALE FOR HOSTAGE POLITICS
When the history of Nigeria’s current political arrangement comes to be written, at the heart of it will be the way that
NIGERIA: BUILDING A GRAND PATRIOTIC COALITION
I have felt very happy this past week, because of the developments on the national political firmament. Happy, because for the first
MALU ON OBASANJO: THE SLIPPERY SLOPES OF PATRIOTISM
Editors of Nigerian newspapers celebrated the Eid-il-fitr holidays of November 2003, at the Otta farm home of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Before we
CRAWLING ON KNEEPADS
My mind has been full of a montage of imageries in the past week. I think it was around September 2002 or