The roads cut us away from love of country
LAST Sunday, I did the closest thing to playing Russian roulette: travelled by road from Ilorin to Kaduna, using the old road,
Sanusi Lamido And Uncomfortable Truths
At a recent book launch to commemorate the 80th birthday anniversary of one of Northern Nigeria’s most illustrious intellectuals, Professor Adamu Baikie,
Sir Alex Ferguson and my Manchester United passion
“ONE of my earliest memories of Alex is going abroad with him and some other managers to see an international game. For
…And it’s Stephen Keshi’s turn
UNLIKE the buzz and expectation which welcomed Samson Siasia into the position of Nigeria’s national football coach a few months back, the
President Jonathan and the Bayelsa guber circus
LAST week, I spoke briefly with a top helmsman of the PDP, on the controversy around the PDP candidacy for the upcoming
His Eminence Sa’ad Abubakar: A Sultan For The Times
This week, the fifth anniversary of the coronation of His Eminence, Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III, is being commemorated. There has been an
The Tyranny Of Statistics
A few related points have concentrated my mind about statistics in the past two weeks. Last week, I used statistics from CBN
General T.Y. Danjuma At 73
Today marks the 73rd birthday of General T.Y. Danjuma. Abba Kyari and Sam Nda-Isaiah have told me so much about his sense
‘We came, we saw, he died’
THE American Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, on being told that imperialism’s ‘revolutionaries’ organised in the Libyan Transitional Council, NTC, had captured
An Eliptical Interrogation Of The Obasanjo Versus Babangida Faceoff
I once asked General Ibrahim Babangida why he never moved against General Obasanjo, despite the unrelenting criticisms of his regime and person,