Everything about him was modestly tailored. He was never given to flamboyance all through his private and social life, and – to observing folks who were privileged to keep him company – he was quite sensitive to the media glow that others would gladly pay to frolic in.

THE celebrations are still on in the five states where by virtue of Justice Adamu Bello’s judgement elongating the governor’s tenure, the state executives would stay in power longer than their electoral mandate. But for the Nigerian people, this is a period of mourning for the new Nigeria they have fought so tenaciously to enthrone.

IN this piece I will focus on Government in Africa. In a subsequent piece I will address the implications of the disquisition on government for governance in Africa.

Going by the headline of this piece, what I am about to write is no more news.
I am convinced that perhaps there is nothing I am going to say here that our very intelligent readers have not heard or read and this influenced my earlier decision to dwell extensively on the just concluded Orange African Nations Championship.

I read with disgust an article published in the Vanguard newspaper of February 20, 2011 authored by one Les Leba entitled ‘Aganga vs Soludo: The pot and the kettle’. I have never responded to any newspaper article but after reading this one, I felt I must write.