Politics

The Dethronement of IBB

Written by Olukunle Sogeke Saturday, 02 January 2010 12:06

Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida was the Nigerian Millitary Ruler who was in power from 1985 to 1993 when He stepped aside. Over time, He apparently earned himself the sobriquets Evil Genius and Maradona. He who the cap fits, let him wear! Obasanjo has been found worthy of outranking IBB and He is henceforth tagged with the sobriquets Evil Genius and Maradona. During the run-up to the 2007 elections, during and after the brouhaha of the 3rd term saga, there was a lot of agitation coming from the South-South Region that their region has never produced a President. They were able to garner enough Sympathy from the Nigerian populace and someone from the region looked set to clinch the ticket of the Ruling PDP from the pack of PDP Presidential Aspirants. The race was beginning to narrow down to Gov. Peter Odili, Donald Duke and Obong Victor Attah.

Yar Adua: what manner of love?

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Written by TOLA ADENLE Thursday, 24 December 2009 15:14

I have wondered these last several months at the very fragile health of Alhaji Yar Adua and the willingness of his wife, Mrs. Turai Yar Adua and his family to continue to allow the world to see the progressive physical deterioriation of their loved one. Pardon me but I’ve even been baffled by reports in the press that Mrs. Yar Adua is now in Nigeria to prepare for a daughter’s wedding while the husband lies sick in Arabia. Even if “he’s recuperating” as the woman purportedly has claimed, the fact remains he’s unwell enough to have been in coma and not to be in a condition to travel to Nigeria. How could she?

No Basket for Rotin Maingo

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Written by Emeka Enechi Wednesday, 02 December 2009 10:44

As a young school boy in Ughelli, I listened to the music of the Urhobo disco maestro Omokomoko. The single he released in the late 70’s titled No Basket for Rotin Maingo became one of my underlying principles in life – Store nothing that has expired – ideas, food, clothes and friends. In the course of the last 30 odd years, I have kept to this principle and it has enriched my life.

In defence of kidnapping

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Written by Idowu Ohioze Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:12

The continuing alarming spate of kidnapping in Nigeria calls for careful thoughts by leaders and the led; though more is expected of the leaders.

Rejoinder:Arab mortal hatred and enslavement of Blacks

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Written by Jamal Akin Jamal Monday, 16 November 2009 05:17

I first read something similar to the article on nairaland but it has a different name for the author. The name of the author was one Chinweizu (http://www.ncobra-intl-affairs.org/Africa_resist.pdf ). The article is more or less the same thing with this article. Before going into the article i am particularly disturbed that our own beloved Sahara reporters will post such an article devoid of intellectual objectivity nor intellectual analysis, I doubt if the editor of Sahara reporters had the patience to read the whole long piece of “copy and paste” “junk” before posting it on the webpage.

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