President Jonathan’s missed Borno opportunity
“To be frank, Mr. President, but for dialogue, you wouldn’t have become the President of this country today…Mr. President, sometimes we wonder
El Commandante Hugo Chavez
I WAS completing last week’s column in the wee hours of Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, when I noticed the scroll on SKY NEWS that
Presidential pardon for Alams
A FEW days after refusing all entreaties to work for peace and reconciliation in Borno, President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Council
Before President Jonathan touches down in Borno
THE story broke last week that President Goodluck Jonathan will soon visit Borno state. It is almost two years late really and
Mr. Chinweike Asadu, assassinated Kwara Commissioner of Police
I CANNOT quite recall what I was searching for last Sunday, when I saw the call card of the Kwara State Police Commissioner, Mr.
Chief Tony Anenih: The political dinosaur returns
HE was the “most natural” choice for the position. Chief Tony Anenih, is the “new” Chairman of the PDP’s Board of Trustees.
Nigeria’s unemployment dilemma
LEADERS of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), met at a forum in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital this week. At the
The Nigerian political elite’s deep-seat inferiority complex
has also copied from the Obasanjo script by appointing a presidential body on agriculture made up of foreigners who have no relevance
The wonder world of Dame Patience Jonathan
“I actually died. I passed out for more than a week. My intestines and tummy were opened. I am not Lazarus but
Super Eagles, Keshi and matters disturbing
It was no surprise to followers of Nigerian football, and the cutthroat politics underlining it, when Coach Steven Keshi announced his resignation,