House of chiefs should be the next (6), by Eric Teniola
This week, we continue the series on why the House of Chiefs should be considered by the National Assembly. He was labour officer, Federal Ministry of Labour, Lagos, 1962–1963; lecturer, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1963–1965; assistant professor of political science, California, 1969–1971; associate professor of African Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1972–1974; dean […]
Wait till you get to INEC
YES, what we have we hold. This is also in consonance with the time-tested Biblical injunction that we should always confess positive because the power of the tongue is so strong that therein resides the prospect to swim or sink in life. But there is also the need to remain truthful at all times. If in March 2011, we are still voting at the 2007 elections, then, there is cause for worry.
No to war on Cote d’Ivoire
THE Nigerian government led by President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be leading the push for the forceful ousting of the government of President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire.
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.
Achebe, Soyinka, Oba S.K Adetona: Appriasal of the colonial experience
Reference to the colonial by Continental Africans as a constraining development condition is now dismissed as an excuse just as reference to legacies of slavery by New World Africans is judged to be escapist. The refrain is “The colonial is long gone, 50 years gone- what have you done since October 1st 1960? What have you done since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?”
Dakar’s month of festival
DECEMBER 2010 was Dakar, the capital city of Senegal’s, week of festival. From 10th of December to 31st the country hosted the 3rd World Black Festival of Arts and Culture otherwise known as FESTAC.
