AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY·NBC SPEECHES 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 October 30, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY 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 October 23, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY 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 October 16, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY 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 October 9, 2008
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 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 October 2, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY 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 September 25, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY·PAPER PRESENTATIONS·The NBC Years 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 September 11, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY 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 September 11, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Yar’adua Is Sick, Nigeria Is On Life Support I will begin with a story; it might even be apocryphal, but it doesn’t really deduct from the general tenor of the September 4, 2008
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Yar’adua is sick, Nigeria is on life support I will begin with a story; it might even be apocryphal, but it doesn’t really deduct from the general tenor of the September 4, 2008