The fight to save Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan
Last week ended on another note of triumph for the terrorists who are sworn to make life unlivable for Nigerians while the rest of the country mourns. We all came to the sad realization of the death in captivity of General Rabe Abubakar. He had been abducted with his wife about four weeks ago by terrorists […]
An unnecessary insult from Iran
A COUNTRY that wants to be taken seriously by her counterparts must recognise when it’s being insulted and know how to reject such insult.
Iwu’s legacy of electoral fraud
NIGERIA’S public officials never seem to mind History’s verdict on them. Their occupation of public office and their performance while they remain in such office often appears to them as exercises meant to satisfy the immediate wishes of those responsible for putting them in office in the first instance.
The (ir)relevance of the Governors’ Forum
IN a few months time, precisely six months, a sizeable number of current office holders, including governors, would be leaving office having served out two full terms prescribed by the Constitution.
The new Commanders-in-Chief
THE news had hardly made the rounds when it was denied. Vice President, Namadi Sambo, had last week announced to an audience in far away Oxford that President Goodluck Jonathan had of his own volition elected to drop the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, all because he was sick of the tiring protocol associated with the title whenever he was introduced in public.
Amos Adamu’s last dance?
AFTER its executive council meeting in Zurich last Wednesday, Nigeria’s Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii of Tahitii were formally suspended from FIFA. Adamu, Nigeria’s sole representative in FIFA has, along with Temarii, a Vice President of FIFA, been at the centre of a cash-for-votes scandal that is threatening to bring FIFA’s house of corruption down on its head.
