Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III: A Sultan for All Seasons, by Azu Ishiekwene

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SubscribeThe senate’s third term blow
‘THROWN OUT’ was a newspaper’s headline, celebrating the Senate crushing of the executive bill sneakily passed to the National Assembly on the apron of the Jega-exigency which sought to reverse an electoral feat already achieved by the NASS-namely the barring of presidential battalion of aides as delegates to presidential party primaries!
INEC: The time to speak is from now
This piece which is essentially on how an organization should manage information is informed by the directive of the Nigerian Senate to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last week to do his work and talk less.
Everyday Miracles
A little girl kneels down and begins to say her night prayers. She is without the complication of big words and the eloquence of accomplished speakers.
The vicissitudes of justice in Nigeria (1)
One of the perennial issues in the philosophy of law or jurisprudence is the question of the status of morality in law. Philosophers, jurists and other interested parties have approached and debated the topic mainly from two broad theoretical perspectives.
The meek shall inherit the earth
For Cecilia, substitute Briskey Gold Nigeria Limited, who had shares in Access Bank Plc; Africa Petroleum; Dangote Flour and its Sugar Refinery counterpart. She had shares in Fidelity Bank Plc; First City Monument Bank Plc; Guarantee Trust Bank; Bank PHB Plc; United Bank for Africa Plc; Union Bank of Nigeria and Zenith Bank Plc.
The age of flood and natural disasters(1)
Hitherto Nigerians thanked God for not visiting any natural disasters on our country; at least not on the scale other nations have experienced. There have been no tsunamis, no hurricanes with winds traveling at 240 mph; no volcanoes and no significant earthquake.
A time of tension
Do you feel that there is a lot of tension building up around the environment? Of course, that is to be expected in some measure at a period immediately preceding general elections in any country.
Big Brother: These do not represent Africa
LOCKING up seven young ladies and an equal number of men in a house for three months, plying them with inexhaustible amount of food, cigarettes, beer and hot drinks is like experimenting with human beings in a zoo. It is bound to bring out the worst in them. Endless quarrels, fights, drinking binges, drunkenness and open flirtation are bound to occur. This precisely is what the Big Brother Africa programme is about.
The element of change as a tool for total development
MANY critics of both economic and political development in the past fifty years of the country‘s independence from Britain have concentrated on the inability of the ruling classes to promote necessary options for a prosperous country.
Adamu, Adamu, Adamu
ALL that one can do at this moment is refrain from commenting on the Dr. Amos Adamu saga, out of respect for the injunction from FIFA that it is investigating the affair and secondly from the point that the evidence is not readily available to one outside what is being splashed in the foreign media and the internet.
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