SPORTS Amos Adamu And Our Footballing Passions I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I just looked to me relieved like our football was under a curse. In October 4, 2007
TRIBUTES THE RE-EMERGENCE OF NASIR EL-RUFAI The DAILY INDEPENDENT newspaper of Thursday, September 6,2007 carried on its front page a picture an apparently happy Nasir el- Rufai, laughing September 20, 2007
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS IRAQ: THE ATROCITIES OF THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION In the past few days,the Bush administration has heightened its barefaced lies about the continuing illegal occupation of Iraq and the undisguised September 13, 2007
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS THE EU REPORT AND ALLIED POLITICAL MATTERS The 2007 state and federal elections fell short of basic international and regional standards for democratic elections. They were marred by very August 30, 2007
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 re visit August 17, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY RESCUING THE NYSC PROGRAMME The years of the 1970’s especially the period after the Nigerian civil war, were the years of great patriotic thought and action August 2, 2007
EDITORIALS ALHAJI IDI FAROUK’S RESPONSE TO PIECE ON TONY ANENIH Last week, Daily Trust carried Alhaji Idi Farouk’s rejoinder to the piece I wrote on Chief Tony Anenih three weeks ago, which July 27, 2007
EDITORIALS A BLOW AGAINST IMPUNITY Our Editorial Board met for much longer than last Thursday, because of the unannounced visit of the special Adviser to president Umar July 26, 2007
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY CHIEF TONY ANENIH AND ALL THAT POLITICS In January 2006, I held a meeting with Chief Tony Anenih in his residence at Asokoro. The meeting had been brokered by July 12, 2007
TRAVELOGUE THE LIGHT AND SHADES OF TRAVEL It is Tuesday morning and I am writing these lines in Room 101 of the SUNLODGEHOTEL, located in the Tesano Quarters of July 5, 2007