AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS In The Orphanage of Neo-Liberal Capitalism The Guardian newspaper of Friday, 8th September, 2006, carried an excerpt from a paper presented recently at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, September 21, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Loyalty As Refuge For Scoundrels It was President Obasanjo himself who should earn the trademark right to having ‘problematised’ the issue of loyalty in contemporary Nigerian politics. September 7, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Politics As Voodoo Quite a number of newspapers have formed the habit of reminding the Nigerian people the number of weeks remaining for a transition August 31, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY A Movement On The Rail Track On Wednesday, the 9th of August, 2006, President Olusegun Obasanjo made a nationwide broadcast to announce that the Federal Govern ment would August 24, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo’s Transcorp Albatross A very important background for the understanding of General Olusegun Obasanjo, the outgoing lame duck despot of Nigeria, is to revisit the August 17, 2006
TRAVELOGUE Three Weeks Can Be A Long Time The last time that I wrote on this page was on Thursday, July 20th, 2006; on same day, I travelled in the August 10, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo‘s Reforms’ 33,000 Workers Into Unemployment It was last wcek that the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) again reminded Nigerian people about the anti-people content of the ‘reform’ that July 13, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY·PAPER PRESENTATIONS·TRIBUTES Obasanjo ‘reforms’ 33,000 workers into unemployment It was last wcek that the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) again reminded Nigerian people about the anti-people content of the ‘reform’ that July 13, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo’s Cronies Finally Grab NITEL When the news broke on Tuesday morning that the deliberately rundown public telecommunications company, NITEL, had finally been sold to die so-called July 6, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo Unleashes His Vengeance “Obasanjo’s government is becoming too edgy and nervous about newspaper reports after the defeat of his third tenn agenda. He is now June 29, 2006