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
Adams Oshiomhole: victory at last
This week, the Nigerian people savoured the sweet taste of victory with the confirmation of Adams Oshiomhole as the governor of Edo
Yar’adau’s regime of policy inconsistencies
Our weekly Edictorial Planning meeting last week, chose as cartoon of the week, a piece that was drawn by Abdulkareem Baba Aminu.
Fidel Castro’s reflections and other issues
Ever since he stepped down as the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro has maintained a regular schedule of reflections on some of
Jigawa: A Summit of Concern And Care
I don’t envy Sule Lamido, the governor of Jigawa State. This is because last weekend he opened a Pandora’s Box: one full
Nigeria: Here Anything Goes, Stupid!
It was former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who once described Nigeria, as an “anything goes” country! To prove that he knew the people
Jigawa Anti-poverty Summit
On the eve of his inauguration as the governor of Jigawa State in May 2007, Sule Lamido visited with us at daily
What Is Happening To American Capitalism?
Just like other observers around the world, I have been glued to the television in the past few days watching the response
Channels TV: Diminishing the National Security State
Most appropriately, in my view, the voices of condemnation of the closure of Channels Television, by the State Security Service, have far
Yar’adua and the politics of long knives
It was the playwright, T.S. Elliot, who once remarked, in respect to the nature of power, that “the strongman strongly, the weak