Independence address, endless promises no specifics
By Dele Sobowale Bayo Onanuga, the Senior Special Adviser to the President, accused critics of writing their responses without reading Tinubu’s address. That is certainly not true about me. In fact, the address was read to me by Uncle Sam, the Publisher of Vanguard, in his house – while asking for my comments on a […]
*a first year of pains
There are times when I start saying something about Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and stop mid-sentence. It would suddenly occur to me that, no matter what, he is still the President of the country in which resides the most populous conglomeration of black people on this planet.
Mangroves: A vanishing resource (2)
THE prevailing theory among scientists, reports the Mangrove Action Project, is that the plant originated in the Indonesia-Malaysia (Indo-Malaysia) area. Between 66 and 23 million years ago, it apparently migrated, via ocean currents, westward to India and east to South and Central America
Critical observations on Nigeria’s economic and political stability
In this column a fortnight ago, I asked whether the ‘Amalgamation of 1914’ was a mistake. The feedback was that judging by the present state of events in Nigeria, the step taken by Lord Lugard, though helpful to Britain, was not in the best interest of the country.
Avoidable quarrel
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to rename the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Moshood Abiola University has not had the desired impact. Abiola’s family is, of course, pleased and grateful.
PDP’s 13 years of poor leadership
A FRIEND of mine always says“anybody who marks his own exam papers will get an A”. That was exactly what the new Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, did in appraising the 13 years since the Party took charge of the affairs of the country from the military. He claimed that the party “has put the nation on the path to sustainable development and steady economic growth as the basis to stabilise and consolidate the nation’s democracy”.
