MISCELLANEOUS Welcome To My Website Dear All; I have the greatest pleasure to inform you that after a considerable amount of work, my website is going live. May 15, 2023
MISCELLANEOUS Amnesty for Boko Haram militants The decision by the new governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, to explore dialogue with an amnesty for members of the Yussufiya June 16, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS Lessons of the historical process IF a word captures the central content of the responses I got to my first piece last week, it would be “vitriol”. May 11, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS Labour And The Poor Have Many Reasons To Strike “President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to withdraw the national minimum wage is illegal. Under the labour law it is the federal government that November 9, 2010
MISCELLANEOUS We Must Re-Energize The Spirit Of Voluntary Organizations Two separate but remarkably related events have inspired the piece this week. Last Thursday saw the first anniversary of the re-introduction of September 22, 2010
MISCELLANEOUS The Dialectic Of The Personal And The Social This is a very important week in my life. You’re reading these lines on Thursday; but in three days time, on Sunday September 1, 2010
MISCELLANEOUS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY MAURICE IWU: ALI BABA IS GONE, LONG LIVE THE 40 THIEVES A few months ago, Maurice Iwu came on a charm offensive to the Media Trust corporate headquarters in Abuja. The backdrop was May 6, 2010
MISCELLANEOUS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY WELCOME TO OJUELEGBA…BUT POLICEMAN NO DEY FOR CENTRE! During the heady days of military dictatorship oil boom in the 1970s, the Ojuelegba roundabout became a byword for road use chaos January 21, 2010
MISCELLANEOUS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY JONATHAN’S 6,000 MEGAWATTS OF CONTRITION “At the inception of this administration, we promised to drastically improve access to electricity by the end of2009. …Our target, which was January 7, 2010
MISCELLANEOUS Umar Faruk Mutallab: The socio -psychological roots of terrorism The attempted bombing of a trans-Atlantic airliner on Christmas day, brought an unwelcome search light to Nigeria, with discovery that would-be bomber December 30, 2009
MISCELLANEOUS·NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Obasanjo, the north and the politics of presidential health I returned to Nigeria on Monday facing the daunting task of trying to read the pile of newspapers of the past week December 10, 2009