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
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
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
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