Jimoh Ibrahim is uninformed: UN intervenes in nation’s internal affairs, by Owei Lakemfa
I do not support the call by Oyo State Governor SeyiMakinde that international bodies like the United Nations (UN) should participate in probing the 56-day abduction of 39 pupils and six teachers in the state. In receiving the freed victims, he called “on the appropriate international human rights and accountability mechanisms, including those within the United […]
Conversations with super German diplomat
MY favourite playwright and poet is Bertolt Brecht, the controversial theorist of the stage called the “Epic Theatre”. His famous plays include The Threepenny Opera, Baal, Mother Courage, Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Good Woman Of Setzuan. When this German cultural giant passed away in 1956, he was sixty eight.
Bankole has eyes, but colours reality
HOUSE of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole boasted before a visiting delegation of German parliamentarians that the mass uprisings that buried the Tunisian and Egyptian governments cannot happen in Nigeria.
Hungry in a world of plenty
A NIGERIAN soldier on international peace keeping in Haiti went out looking for food to buy. There was a riot by hungry Haitians looking for food to eat. The angry mob killed the Nigerian. Four other Haitians are killed in the riots and the government falls.
Mr President, an apology will do
I KNOW that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a major problem in the country, but I confess to having a different opinion about President Goodluck Jonathan. Unlike most of the country’s past leaders, he appears to be a gentleman, level-headed, civilised and neither power conscious nor power drunk.
Days of departure
President Hosni Mubarak has succeeded in postponing his “Day Of Departure”. That was the day set aside by pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt for him to depart after three decades as president.
