NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY OBASANJO’S POLITICS OF BLACKMAIL Media houses were buzzing with wonderment at the beginning of this week when the news broke that ANPP governors were on the February 8, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Smart Adeyemi And Northern Senators’ Leadership One of the more unfortunate aspects of the praxis of the Northern elite: bureaucratic, economic or political, is the deepening level of February 7, 2007
MISCELLANEOUS EXACTLY THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY If you wiat long enough everything changes. That has always been a favorite maxim of mine; now I cannot quite recollect who February 1, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY OBASANJO’S FUEL SCARCITY REGIME I travelled to Illorin over the weekend to attend the marriage ceremony of a cousin who has lived in England for over January 25, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY REVEREND KING AND THE EXPLOITATION OF RELIGION “ Religious fundamentalism of the basest type… has never done any society any good. Nigerian society is bogged down with myriad of January 18, 2007
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS PLEASE LET US SAVE LAKE CHAD Some of my earliest lessons in geography were taught by my mother and I kept remembering that she would show me a January 11, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY BUT CAN WE REALLY HELP OBASANJO The newspaper of Friday, December 29, 2006, carried very copious quotations from a statement issued by the Movement for Unity and Progress January 4, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo Tramples On The Constitution “Certainly, only the NASS can remove a sitting Vice President. I do not even think there is a lacuna. But you December 28, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY What A Week In Politics “Let us expect a govt o f the oligarchs, for the oligarchs and by the oligarchs (and their clients). Yar ‘Adua for December 21, 2006
EDITORIALS·MISCELLANEOUS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Umar Yar’Adua: Obasanjo finally makes his move Those familiar with the grains of dialectical thought know the formula that ‘yes is no and no is yes’. The idea is December 14, 2006