Arrogance Personified, by Donu Kogbara
Mary Habila, a young nurse on secondment from a federal teaching hospital named after him, was found unconscious on June 27th in a building owned by the Minister of Works, David Umahi. According to eyewitness accounts, she was naked, blood was oozing from her nose and mouth and she died en route to the hospital. The […]
A good ending
LAST week, I said on this page that I had grave reservations about President Buhari’s active involvement in a non-Nigerian political crisis that had been brought on by his Gambian counterpart Yahya Jammeh’s undemocratic misconduct.
Abuse of power part I
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega selected his wife, Rosario Murillo, to be his running mate when he was seeking a fourth term in office.
An exemplary daughter of Africa
WHEN we were young (many moons ago!), I shared a flat in London with a clever, vivacious and beautiful fellow journalist called Aminatta Forna. Her mother was Scottish. Her father, Mohammed Forna, a highly principled native of Sierra Leone, had started his career as a medical doctor, then branched into politics.
Lessons I’ve learned in 2016
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the current Minister of Transport and former Governor of Rivers State, was my bosom buddy for many years; and before, during and after the 2015 elections, I supported Amaechi to the hilt, sometimes reluctantly.
Good and bad news
This has been a bad year for the majority of Nigerians. We have been plunged into recession. Prices have soared and people are struggling for basic survival.
