I woke up this morning to the realisation that there were a lot of sports issues I could not put my fingers on. I woke up to see my phone inundated with text messages of readers seeking my views and opinion on issues they believe I could help.

ASUU should focus more on emolument at the entry point into the profession, rather than concentrating too much attention on professorial salaries. In as much as there are good reasons for drawing attention to the inadequate wages of the highest academic rank in the system, I believe it is even more crucial to call attention to the paltry salaries paid to graduate assistants and assistant lecturers at the starting point of the academic career.

There are at present 774 local government councils with elected council chairmen and councillors who are “working” fulltime. This level of government is the greatest fraud that has been visited on our democratic outing since May, 1999, and has been responsible for the lack of growth in the local government area.

I knew Peter Enahoro enough to recognize him and speak to him in a familiar tone of voice, though I had little claim to any kind of familiarity more than the fact that 1 was working in the same office with his elder brother, Ben (or “Benito, for short”, as we used to playfully call him – God rest him) and we met now and then when they lived in Yaba.

The impression people have is that the most of current bunch of people in politics are in it not for what they can do for, or give to society, but for what “spoils” and “loot” they can milk off our sick political environment.

That Senator David Mark has been able to manage the women in the Senate chamber without much controversy is a worthy demonstration of the discipline he has brought to bear in the affairs of the sixth Senate.

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is reported to be getting better by the day, thank God, and we are told that he will return to Nigeria this week, and/or we will hear him broadcast to the nation before the week runs out.

For some decades, I have tried to examine, perhaps in a lurid manner, the perplexing state of the ‘Nigerian Question.

Amodu Shuaibu is human and he is superstitious. He believes God performed a miracle in Nigeria qualifying for the Copa Mundial and has used the Synagogue Church Of All Nations as a platform for showing gratitude to God. I did not hear him speak and so cannot ascertain his choice of words. Even the prophet will not say he did it but God.

By Ikedi Isiguzo IF ever you hear that a country is advertising to hire a coach, it must be Nigeria. If the list turns out as long as what the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, presents, the implication is that the there is no serious effort to hire anyone. What are we to make of all […]

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.