Trump: Lesson for Nigeria, by Stephanie Shaakaa
None of this means that Democrats have secured a permanent realignment of American politics. Nor does it automatically determine who will win the next presidential election
Good hair, bad hair
THE other Wednesday night I was sharing a table with South African music icon, Mr. Hugh Masekela, Bra Hugh as everybody in Jo’burg calls him.
Obama: Glad he won
I FEARED that Barack Obama would lose the American presidential election but he sailed through; and I am grateful and relieved to the point of tearfulness.
Negotiating with Boko Haram
LONG before it became accepted wisdom, I had been an advocate of negotiation with the Islamist organisation, Boko Haram.
Let Oshiomhole also‘take a bow’
ANYTHING that is misused is abused and anything that is abused is also devalued. We watched helplessly as the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria gradually reduced the “Take a Bow” procedure to the point of embarrassment.
Rules of disengagement
THE dust raised by the chilling indictment of the Nigerian security agencies and the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunnah Diddaawati Wal Jihad (JASLIWAJ) (a.k.a. Boko Haram) by Amnesty International had hardly settled down when the war was taken up to new levels in Yobe and Borno States.
