UNTIL Olusegun Obasanjo, three times Nigerian Head of State, retired General of the Nigerian Army, traditional Egba chief, leader of the PDP and, perhaps, Nigeria’s most powerful politician, became president in 1999, virtually nothing was known of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who has twice taken the saddle as Nigeria’s Finance Minister.

THE just concluded National Convention of People Democratic Party which produced a new set of its leaders is a study in the perversion of all the core values of the democratic process.

IN one of the several interviews to mark his 60th birthday, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) was asked by the SUN editors if he was interested in becoming the president of this country. “Why not?”, he countered and went ahead to boast that he can make a better president than many of his peers. But two down the line he began to distance himself from the ambition.

WADE’S concession of his defeat in the presidential run-off election has drawn understandable attention to the politics of Senegal.

Some critics would define the emerging characteristic features of the 2012 budget as unexpectedly inchoate and belated! A host of admirers had hoped that the return of the vibrant Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from the respected citadel of the IMF would signal the advent of progressive growth in economic and social welfare!