Who is against democratic structures in the North-East?
ON Monday, April 21, 2014, LEADERSHIP newspaper’s lead story said that plans were afoot to suspend democratic structures in Adamawa, Borno and
Kano: Hope, renewal and scholarships
I SPENT last weekend in Kano. My intense love for the largest city in Northern Nigeria is well known by people very close
Treason, the pot at the rainbow’s end
IT took the WALL STREET JOURNAL, WSJ, last week, to lift the lid on the murky world of payments which the Nigerian government makes
A struggle for the soul of Nigeria
WHEN the Niger Delta toughie, Asari Dokubo, threatened a bloody war against Northern Nigeria, at a press conference in Abuja last week,
Jonathan, National Asembly and the budget brouhaha
NIGERIA’S greatest musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, called it “Government Magic”; that is the practiced tradition in government circles to obfuscate basic issues of
It’s a good month for Dame Patience Jonathan, this July!
THE gods must be smiling on President Jonathan’s wife, Dame Patience; and its looking like this month of July, is her “Season
Hypocritical selectivity: They recall Arunma Oteh but refuse to reinstate Justice Salami
LAST week, most newspapers carried the picture of workers at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), demonstrating with placards, against the recall
A petroleum industry bill for Diezani
IT must be, arguably, the most anticipated Bill,as far as legislation goes in Nigeria. That is the much-vaunted Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB);
The demystification of Tony Anenih
JUST by the huge margin of victory alone, and the fact that even the dinosaur could not hold his community, Adams Oshiomhole’s
Prejudice, ignorance, profiling and the Fulbe nomad
The last time I wrote about the FulBe nomad was on December 16, 2004. The piece was titled “A RESOLVE FOR
Edo guber election and democracy consolidation
THIS weekend the Edo governorship election holds. It pits Adam Oshiomhole, the sitting governor, against the PDP’s Gen. Charles Airhiavbere, in what