Nigeria since 1999: When will the years begin to count? By Dakuku Peterside
Think of a Nigerian born in 1999, the year civilian rule came back. That person is twenty-seven now. They have never lived under a military government. But they may have finished school and not found a job. They have probably learned to plan trips around insecurity, and they almost certainly run a generator at home. […]
Doyin Mahmoud : A patriot marches on
WHEN I joined The Guardian newspapers in August 1983, I thought it was chaotic. We were grilled like soldiers. Every day we had to bring at least one story.
First time out: (10) For us, sex was just one of the games we played
Those who want to have sex at this point just pick each other and go into hiding together to do it, while those who don’t, just hide and allow themselves to get caught
And who is after Aondoakaa?
HIS short, truculent neck and thick-set features are a cross between the looks of a buffalo and a rhinoceros. At close range (as I had during his visit to the High Court in Igbosere during the funeral rites for Gani), he seems uncompromising.
Coup against Bauchi State ANPP (3)
THE governor elected as the ANPP governor and the 17 ANPP co-defectors have not conducted themselves as representatives of the ANPP faction of the Bauchi electorate, neither have the 9 PDP legislators conducted themselves as the elected representatives of the PDP factions of the Bauchi electorate.
Anambra’s three big SONs
FORMER Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, once described the late Tai Solarin as “an illiterateâ€. Are you shocked? How can one of Nigeria’s most refined gentlemen in the political arena who is not known for the use of strong language even under severe pressure describe one of Nigeria’s most outstanding educationists and social critics as “illiterateâ€? Let Ekwueme himself answer the question.
