NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Sanusi Lamido And The Senate: Brain Confronts Brawn “By my upbringing, if I’m wrong, I don’t need to be told to come and say I’m wrong and I would apologise. December 9, 2011
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Now that we know the fuel subsidy beneficiaries LAST week, the wind of nation-wide opposition to an unpopular agenda finally exposed the ugly hind place of Nigeria’s political (economic) fowl, December 8, 2011
TRIBUTES Prof. Alfred Opubor: My teacher, colleague and friend I ARRIVED home in Kaduna last Sunday afternoon, when I received a mail from the Nigerian Community Radio Network, announcing that Professor December 8, 2011
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY The delights of Katsina I SPENT last weekend in Katsina which I have not visited in nine years. Katsina occupies an important place in the history December 8, 2011
TRIBUTES Odumegwu Ojukwu and truths we owe the dead “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”— George Orwell The former leader of the secessionist ‘Republic of December 1, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS Nigerian unemployment statistics and the roots of national crises LET us give ourselves the pause for a moment, and reflect upon one simple fact: Most of those arrested and arraigned in November 24, 2011
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY President Jonathan’s flight of Pharaoh-like vindictiveness You hold the keys of heaven and hell. Power to bind and loose: bind, Thomas, bind, King and bishop under your heel. November 24, 2011
AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BRITAIN, HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT AID British imperialism in real terms, is a dying horse; it frantically kicks about, but everyone knows its days are long gone! The November 17, 2011
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Governance Without Social Conscience Opening the NLC’s Harmattan School early this week, Congress President, Abdulwaheed Omar, warned the Goodluck Jonathan administration, that its gung-ho determination to November 17, 2011
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Diezani Alison Madueke: Our Super Minister Diezani’s luck passeth understanding! She is the ONLY minister with a ‘secure’ tenure; NDA ‘freely’ honoured her recently and it was CON November 17, 2011