IYABO OBASANJO AND OTHER TALES OF OUR NATION
One of the most wonderful ways for a journalist to conclude an outgoing year is to lap up the juicy details of
AFRICOM: PRESIDENT YAR’ ADUA’S UNENVIABLE BURDEN
Four weeks ago on this page, I had joined millions of Nigerians to laud the decision of the National Council of States
Those interesting dimension of politics
A week can be a very long time in politics; that ha become a common place statement now. The past week has
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
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
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
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
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
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
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