NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY PROBLEMS OF THE BUHARI CAMPAIGN Last week, I wanted to write an analysis of the Buhari campaign. Eventually, I moved on the two other thoughts, but kept March 1, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY RETHINKING OBASANJO’S GARRISON DEMOCRACY “Anybody who tests the will of this administration… will curse the day he was born”-Olusegun Obasanjo I spent the last part of February 22, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY OBASANJO’S PHILOSOPHY “This election is a do-or-dieaffair for me and the PDP. This coming election is a matter of life and death”-President Obasanjo The February 15, 2007
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
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
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Action Congress (AC): Just Like PDP If you read ray piece last week, you would have known that I am on annual vacation. One of the elements of December 7, 2006
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo’s Andy Uba Mess On Monday night, I held a dinner meeting in Abuja with a visiting American delegation. These meetings and focus group discussions, by November 16, 2006
EDITORIALS One Tragedy Too Many I spent the second half of last week, from Thursday evening, in Lagos. I was attending a retreat at the scenic Eko November 2, 2006