Sting dollars: Between the lawmaker and the oil magnate
PARDON me please, but in a manner of speaking, the s..t has hit the ceiling fan ofNigeria’s political and business elite; and
Did you watch the Nigerian Basketball team qualify for the Olympic Games?
IN far away Caracas, Venezuela, the Nigerian Basketball team qualified for the London Olympic Games. It was our first time and what a
The Williams Sisters: Serena and Venus
LAST Saturday, Serena Williams won the Women’s Singles trophy of the 2012 Wimbledon Tennis Championship in London. She equaled the fifth championship
Prof. Jean Heskovits: Reminder on being Nigerian
PROF. Jean Heskovits, the long-term watcher of Nigeria, last week came calling in these shores, to present a speech. It was at
Three days? But we mourn everyday
“You travel by road, tankers will catch fire; by air, plane crashes; you sit in your house, a plane comes to meet
A week in Borno
I SPENT most of last week in Maiduguri, Borno state, participating in a retreat for political office holders. I have not returned to
Obasanjo vs National Assembly: Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
ADDRESSING a conference of the (rather innocuous, pardon my ignorance) Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies in Lagos, last week, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo,
Reinstate Justice Salami Now
The news broke last week that a committee of the National Judicial Council (NJC), headed by Hon. Justice Maryam Aloma Mukhtar, had
Sacking Lagos medical doctors: Segun Ayobolu’s courage
THE ACN never ceases to describe itself as a “progressive” political party. My conception of being progressive is class-based; the party that
Muhammadu Buhari: The meaning and politics of language
“Kare jinni, biri jinni”: Hausa Metaphor WHEN General Muhammadu Buhari received a group of CPC loyalists from Niger State, in Kaduna last week,