NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Nigerian governors and national minimum wage Last week, the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, rose from a meeting to announce that they can no longer pay the N18, November 26, 2015
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS International day of solidarity with Palestine Every year on November 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed by the United Nations and around November 26, 2015
MISCELLANEOUS Different grades of “Chopin” in government We have become terribly cynical about the process of governance in our country; and for good reasons! Our history is littered with the November 20, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Snakes in Aminu’s compound Let me begin by expressing relief that House Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, finally dropped out of the race for presidency in 2015. Not November 20, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Raymond Dokpesi’s s**t and PDP’s ceiling fan ON the eve of the 2011 presidential election, I received a text message from Raymond Dokpesi, urging me to vote for November 19, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Dangote’s concrete roads formula for Nigeria A FORTNIGHT ago, I spent four days in Lagos. I had been invited by AG Dangote, the construction arm of the November 19, 2015
TRIBUTES HRH Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari: 20 years on the Ilorin throne AT the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, twenty years ago, in 1995, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Gambari, was November 12, 2015
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Burkina Faso’s Sub-Saharan Spring “This is a sub-Saharan spring and it must continue against all presidents trying to hang onto power in Africa.” IT was a November 6, 2015
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Prof. Mahmood Yakubu at INEC: Man and Guinea fowls SINCE the announcement broke of his appointment as the new Chairman of INEC, I have tried to remember how we became friends November 5, 2015
TRIBUTES Alhaji Haliru Dantoro, Late Emir of Borgu, 1938-2015 I FELT deep sadness over the weekend when news broke, that the Emir of Borgu, Alhaji Haliru Dantoro died in Germany, at November 5, 2015