NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY With INEC, we are in serious trouble Let me start with a confession. It is very difficult for me to write about Professor Attahiru Jega’s INEC. Jega was my teacher, November 21, 2013
TRIBUTES Festus Iyayi: They killed our comrade Many different thoughts came to my mind last week, when news of Festus Iyayi’s tragic death broke. The pain was deep and November 21, 2013
KWARA Kwara cabinet reshuffle: Freebies time for prayer warriors Governor Fatai Ahmed of Kwara State sacked his cabinet, including the retinue of special advisers, senior special assistants, special assistants and sundry November 7, 2013
MISCELLANEOUS The more things change, the more they remain same. You are familiar with that French saying, right? “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose”? The more things change, the more November 7, 2013
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS China, Vietnam & Dubai: Travel And Thoughts It was inside the Dubai Mall, that the idea to write this piece began to gestate in my mind. We had done October 30, 2013
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Between China and Vietnam IT is 0259HRS local time in Vietnam on Monday night/Tuesday morning and 1959HRS on Monday in Nigeria. I am writing these lines October 24, 2013
KWARA Bukola Saraki’s annual ritual of stampedes “Every man’s death diminishes me for I am involved in mankind; so ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for October 24, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Tony Nyiam, Adams Oshiomhole and national conversation One of the main talking points of the week was the attitude of a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National October 21, 2013
MISCELLANEOUS When 89% of corps members cannot write a letter Last week, the Kano State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Mr. Sanusi AbdulRasheed, lamented that 89% of corps members October 17, 2013
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY JIGAWA TELEVISION: From technical committee to implementation Last Friday in Dutse, JigawaState, the Technical Committee on the establishment of the Jigawa State Television, submitted its report to Governor Sule October 10, 2013