ONE-PARTY RULE = A dictator and end of June 12, by Dele Sobowale
NOTE: This article was first published in June 2025. Recent occurrences on the political scene have made this repetition necessary. Most of those who end up being victimised by a dictator were once his fervent promoters. “When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults […]
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.
Uncertainty and profit making in Nigeria
ELOHO Otobo’s piece titled “Africa’s Three Futures: Which beckons for Nigeria? prompted my positive appreciation in my Vanguard’s Tuesday column of his prognosis titled “Which of the Three is Nigeria’s Future?” In this follow up essay, I contrast the conceptual forecast by Otobo of the best case scenario with the possibilities discovered by international businesses in the Nigerian market.
No, NFF please, no
I had intended this week’s column for my readers, especially those I cannot reach on phone or by mail. I had wanted to use the space this week to wish all of us a greater 2011, sportswise.
Jos: Nigeria’s face of terror
ALMOST on a daily basis one year ago when Nigeria’s Umar Farouk, the so-called crotch-bomber, put Nigeria’s name on the international terror list by his failed attempt to bomb an airline on Christmas day in faraway America, Jos, the once-peaceful city in the centre of the country, erupted in violence.
Shocking news!
Hi Readers! I was a bit bewildered when Heather came to whisper in my ears at the hotel check-in desk in Abuja, that I shouldn’t take three rooms, but just two.
