The Ozymandias complex in the Tinubu administration psyche, by Owei Lakemfa
The transformative Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is mired in endless controversies. This is the fate of great monuments and, I dare say, great leaders. So, my primary concerns here are not the hullabaloos about its actual cost and absence of biddings or, its ever changing designs as it meanders through coast and land. My interest here is its […]
Leave and let us live’
THE peoples’ hurricane which swept ferociously through Tunisia making the 25-year presidency of General Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali history, made a strong landing in Egypt on Tuesday, January 25.Its ferocious nature and intensity shocked not just the repressive Egyptian presidency but also the demonstrators themselves.
Senate as old Peoples Home
SENATOR Saminu Turaki was a promising politician in 1999 when he became governor of Jigawa State. He later claimed to have transformed the state into a digital revolution.
Flight of dictators
IT was a reverse flight: While Tunisian General, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was fleeing his country after a quarter of a century dictatorship, former Haitian dictator, Claude Duvalier alias Baby Doc was returning after 25 years in exile.
Songs of victory: Goodluck to PDP
IF the message at a convention is fundamental, then I was surprised that as many as 805 delegates at last Thursday’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primaries voted for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. That left President Goodluck Jonathan with 2,703 votes and Mrs Sarah Jibril with one.
Life has no duplicate
A WOMAN in Texas, United States (US)and her male companion were in November 1979 robbed by two Black men. A month later, Cornelius Dupree Jr, a 21-year old Black man was arrested because to the police his description fitted that of a suspect in another rape case.
Political giants as nomads
IN this season of politics and bountiful harvests, many political giants are becoming political orphans who are in need of shelter. Better put, they are becoming political nomads wandering the landscape in search of better pastures.
Military option won’t work in Abidjan
IN the old Western movies, there were usually the ‘good men’ who were on the side of the law or justice. On the other hand were the ‘bad men’ who were usually outlaws.
Sunmonu in the embrace of history
FOR many in my generation, Labour was synonymous with Hassan Adebayo Sunmonu who became the founding president of the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) in February 1978.
The African challenge in 2011
AS Africans, we face lots of challenges in the new year. But the womb of 2011 also carries what the scan shows as the continent’s newest baby: the independent Republic of Southern Sudan. A January 9, 2011 referendum is expected to give birth to the new baby which would be weaned as a separate country six months later.
Enahoro: Prison was my school
MOST of our leaders have risen in one voice to shower encomiums on departed nationalist and warrior of the people, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, but I doubt if one percent of this crowd bordered to understand him. Still fewer read or appreciated his ideas but would not want them implemented.
