ECOWAS — beyond the glitter of new edifices
President Bola Tinubu’s ribbon-cutting for a gleaming new ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja offered a flattering image of ambition — but brick and glass do not heal the fractures that threaten the community’s very purpose. Fifty-one years after its founding in 1975 in Lagos to promote economic integration, collective security, free movement and democratic stability across […]
6,000 Nigerians jailed abroad
WITH more than 6,000 Nigerians in foreign jails, we thought President Goodluck Jonathan would have added their matter to charges he gave Nigeria’s 93 new ambassadors. He did not.
Dangers of A Divided Mali
THE 15-member Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is clearly in a quandary over the complex situation in Mali. On the one hand, the Captain Ahmadou Sanogo-led military junta, which seized power from President Toumani Tuore last March 22, is unwilling to comply with the one-year transitional agenda leading to a presidential election.
Beyond Farouk Lawan Scandal
NOBODY expected the weighty allegations made against fuel importers and their collaborators would have gone without a major reaction. The growing bribery scandal on the committee that turned out that report could just be one of the reactions.
Choices Over Violence
VIOLENCE is a major offering preceding the July 14 governorship election in the Edo State. It should not be allowed to persist. The flood of allegations between the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fuels the violence.
Standing On June 12
JUNE 12 may be a fading political memory, but the thousands who converted it to a political cheque, which they are still cashing, ironically oppose it most stridently. Most Nigerians younger than 30 years do not have firm memories of the election, 19 years ago, which Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola won but the military annulled.
