Nelson Mandela and ANC’s many failures, by Ochereome Nnanna
If you ask anyone, “who is the greatest African of all time?”, the name of Nelson Mandela of South Africa will likely pop up. I took this question to three Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. They all chorused “Dr Nelson Mandela.” While Gemini and Claude held Kwame Nkrumah in second place with Mansa […]
Why North may remain poor
AND now, let us face the argument that there is rising violence in Northern Nigeria because of “low derivation” from oil resources.
North and Niger Delta’s oil wealth
MALAM Sanusi Lamido Sanusi fired the prompter. In an interview with Financial Times of London, he linked the Boko Haram Islamic terrorism to federal revenue allocation.
Out and about with Comrade Oshiomhole
SOME time in August 2008 I found myself in Benin City. I had missed a flight from the Enugu Airport so I had to take a segmented road rip back to Lagos. While the bus loaded up in Iyaro Motor Park the heavens opened up and it started raining monkeys and baboons. It was my first time in Benin under a rainy condition.
An encounter with Gov Shettima of Borno
WHEN a friend contacted me to join a few other columnists in Abuja for an encounter with Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, I saw it as a real opportunity to get behind the iron curtain of the politics of far North East Nigeria, core theatre of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.
Hurricane Lagos’ a warning shot
HURRICANE Lagos”. That was the creative alias Vanguard Newspapers entitled its main photograph of the destruction caused by a freak storm that hit the nation’s commercial capital in its Tuesday, February 14, 2012 issue. How apt!
