G100: Let our politicians be, by Tonnie Iredia
The popular belief in Nigeria today is that it was the emergence of one strong opposition political party that gave victory to the All Progressives Congress APC in the 2015 presidential election. Of course, whereas the coming together of many groups may have played a role in the outcome of the election, there is no […]
Naija style politics
NOW that the latest election season is fully underway, I’m reminded of a very perceptive comment that my ex-husband (Dominic Midgley, an English journalist) made about the Nigerian political scene when he lived in Abuja some years ago.
Some negative aspects of our sordid past
WHEN the disastrous bomb exploded on the 50th Independence Anniversary day, the incident was described as the handiwork of a maniac, or how would a sane person desire to wreck a multi_billion celebration in honor of the fatherland‘s freedom from the yoke of imperialism.
Football’s New Year Wails
THE Maigari_led Executive Committee of the NFA sacked Davidson Owumi and not the Congress of the NFA. Those who were present said the matter was not brought up at anytime. So why did the Executive Committee smuggle in its position and make it look like it was a Congress decision?
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.
