By Owei Lakemfa THE constitutional “crisis” in the county today is contrived.  The fault is not on our Constitution.  The Constitution envisaged that the President or the Vice President can fall sick and be unable to carry out the functions of their office.  To that extent, there is  nothing wrong with the Constitution. What however […]

LEON PANETTA, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director had the painful duty of defending the professional conduct of his agents cut by a suicide bomber in Khost, Afghanistan. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulai al-Balawi was a 36-year old Jordanian doctor who was providing the CIA a stream of useful intelligence information. He was being jointly run by the CIA and the Jordanian intelligence.

I DO not know what school of thought produced Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi. I know that he read Economics at Ahmadu Bello University before reading Sharia and Islamic Studies in Sudan. So I am not talking about literacy, but education. I am aware he has at least two degrees, but my concern is the degree of his thought process. I am not referring to ideology, but common sense.

AFRICA stepped into 2010 with shaky legs and uncertainty about the future. This is not so much due to the anarchy in the Congo, the failed state of Somalia, the rise of hooligans in Guinea-Conakry, the sway of military might in Mauritania, the strong arm tactics of the Niger regime or the blood thirsty nature of the Sudanese government. All these as well as the continent’s economic ill health are contributory factors.

ALL through the New Year season, the Nigerian Government was apologetic to the United States (US). It continued to cry that the insane Christmas Day attempt by Nigerian born Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab to blow up an American airliner over Detriot is unNigerian.