Blame Boko Haram killings on politicians – Sultan
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar, has declared that politicians have failed the people of Nigeria just as he maintained that politicians sometimes create crises and give them religious colouration.
How do EFCC cells look like?
When I first heard the news of the arrest of Dimeji Bankole, immediate past speaker of the House of Representatives, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), I had the feeling that it was only for a chat that would last some minutes. My mind went back to 1993 when as Director of Public Affairs at the defunct National Electoral Commission; I was invited for a chat by the State Security Service (SSS) in the heat of the controversial June 12 Presidential election.
The ACN agenda in the National Assembly, by Sen. Femi Lanlehin
Chief Femi Lanlehin is a self-effacing politician. But that does not mean he is not a tactician. He’s a lawyer
In the days of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, he was one of those operating from within the country, sometimes risking life to help establish contact between those abroad and their family members in the country – in fact, a very popular former state governor had Lanlehin as his contact person between the exiled politician and his family using Benin Republic as meeting point. But all that has gone with NADECO. He was in the House of Representatives during the still born Third Republic. Today, he is in the Senate, representing Oyo South.
Osama, terrorism and Rubenfeld’s non-sense (2)
By the way, the directive was not even to bring Osama ‘dead, not alive’! It was to cast him ‘dead, at sea’! What civilized way to actuate a ‘suspect’! Ironically by the ‘most democratic’, most ‘law-governed’ nation, America, that prides herself as the ‘conscience of humanity’. Clarence Darrow, America’s pre-eminent trial lawyer of his time said of the psychology behind state killers: “before you can get a trial to hang somebody… you must first hate him and then get a satisfaction over his death.”
My books re-echo the Vision and Orientation of Ndigbo – Udeh
In this interview, former Vanguard staff, social crusader and writer condemns the unfortunate stigmatisation and discrimination certain individuals go through as a result of the Osu(out) Cast system which is still prevalent in some part of Igbo land
It’s a different world
Just a week ago, I sat down in the company of a few people to a robust argument about the nature of the new generation that we are parents to. In the past couple of weeks my mind has been fully focussed on the parenting skills of my generation and I would not be fair if I didn’t present another valid argument which I will admit makes me a lot more comfortable.
