By Owei Lakemfa I WAS absolved by various  reports on the collapse of the Socialist bloc from 1989 to 1992. Most of the reports took their theme song from the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was particularly engrossed in the “Velvet Revolution” in the old Czechoslovakia which began to unfold from the November 17, […]

Where Senegal, Togo Ghana , Cameroun, Ecowas, etc. must come to trade, no matter the situation of the roads. Before few Africans knew the functions of a bank, who established the first African bank which made it possible for these wandering traders to qualify for soft loans?

By Morenike Taire THE one great failing of the democratic form of government, nonetheless far outweighed by its strengths, is its heavy dependence on the party system. A party is a group of people, amongst other accepted definitions, with political ambitions and ideological standpoints in common. A ruling party, therefore, is more likely to  have  […]

By Ochereome Nnanna I HAVE never been in the habit of blaming political appointees for acts of omission and commission in government. I am a firm believer that as the buck stops on the table of the chief executive officer, and since he hires and fires these appointees, he must answer for any fault of […]

DURING the campaigns leading to what was assumed would be the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the 2007 Presidential elections, I stumbled on the campaign team of an aspirant. It was a well-organised, motivated, serious but somewhat naively optimistic group. Off record, the team leader took questions on the campaigns and assessed the chances of other aspirants.