The curious case of Gbaja and the Prince, by Rotimi Fasan
If presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga is to be believed, the so called director, Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew, of a so called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council or PFIPC should appear in court in about three weeks from now. That is on July 27 to answer multiple charges of impersonation and forgery. The issue centres around one […]
How transparent can Jega’s INEC be?
A LOT of what would make the 2011 elections successful is being hinged on the personal integrity of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega.
The coming revolution
DO you know that it costs tax payers 290 million Naira yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where nothing works and 80per cent of the population earn below N300 a day?
Atiku and the divided house of PDP
IT’S been a week since former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, emerged the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) led by Adamu Ciroma who has been in the vanguard of the call for a president of Northern extraction to finish what some members of the Northern political establishment say is the unfinished term of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who died earlier in the year.
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.
