By Donu Kogbara This Wednesday was the 26th  anniversary of Ken Saro Wiwa’s execution by the Abacha regime. Saro Wiwa, an environmental activist, was hanged for inciting the murders of four Ogoni chiefs; but he is widely celebrated as a hero and his supporters are demanding that he be exonerated by President Muhammadu Buhari. In […]

By Donu Kogbara PRINCE Uche Secondus, the suspended National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, tried to prevent the PDP convention from taking place in Abuja tomorrow. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal in Secondus’s state capital, Port Harcourt, deferred judgement till today. READ ALSO:Anambra Guber: Police promise to be civil, firm during poll Secondus […]

By Donu Kogbara LINDSAY Barrett, the West Indian media man who has wholeheartedly embraced his African roots, has become a legend in his own lifetime. I first heard of him three-and-a-half decades ago, when I was a young journalist working in the UK, where I grew up. I was in my mid-20s at the time and, […]

By Donu Kogbara THE current power struggle between the governors of some Nigerian states and the Abuja-based Federal Government takes me back to my distant schooldays in Britain, when we were taught, in lessons about the late Mediaeval and early Renaissance periods of European history; about the endless tussles between overbearing monarchs and noble vassals […]

By Donu Kogbara THE annual Independence Day navel-gazing exercise is upon us! Every year, on or just before/after October l, like many other journalists and public affairs commentators, I solemnly contemplate the state of the nation. And – sadly! – there has never been a year when I have concluded that Nigeria is more good […]