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It’s been a few a few days now since I read somewhere that Mr. El Rufai Nasir sent a protest letter to US President Barack Obama urging him to remove Nigeria from the recent list of...
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After almost fifty years of independence, we ought to be used to the buffoonery of our rulers. But even for a group of people accustomed to elite perfidy, nothing could have prepared us for the...
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Founding father of America, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Where the press is free and every man able to read, all...
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The Punch, Monday, January 11, 2010 at page 11, carried the above-captioned story, against which I think people of good conscience should speak regardless of their religious, social or ethnic...
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Brownlie (1990) defines diplomacy as any means by which States establish or maintain mutual relations communicate with each other with a view to carrying out political or legal transactions through...
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Some stories and comments on and about the boy-bomber Mutallab suggest that we Nigerians cherish the qualification of situations. By that I mean that we avoid absolutes, as if such absolutes are...
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Introduction-The Year 2009 ended on a terrible note for us Nigerians: – our president Umar Musa Yar’Adua (and former governor of Katsina) has been “missing” since...
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When the Movement for the emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND and other groups emerged in the Niger Delta a few years ago and declared their resolve to pick up arms against the continuing...
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The situation in Nigeria is as amusing as it is annoying. It shows the extent of rot in leadership in a country with limitless possibilities but unfortunate to be blessed with the worst crop of...
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“At the inception of this administration, we promised to drastically improve access to electricity by the end of 2009….Our target, which was modest, was set at generating 6,000 megawatts...
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Since the beginning of history never has it been easy to work for progressive change in any human society. The reasons for that can be found in the different ways that people react to...
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Anyone who studied basic West African history would know how what exists today as the Nigerian supra-national state came into existence—it is an arbitrary imposition on the diverse...
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