2027 Presidential Election: Meet Sandy Onor, scholar carrying PDP’s broken burden
His name carries an unusual combination of scholarship and electoral politics. But the bigger story is the political road that brought him
Overcoming the kerosine debacle
LIKE an old train couch, the year 2013 in a jerky swing but consistent style of each closing season of a year draws to a close.
A tribute to my triumvirate of heroines(4)
BEHIND these were the white enamel toilets, where you pulled on a chain to flush after use and water came tumbling down to clean it out.
Ogun still a huge construction site
I FIRST came across the phrase a ‘Huge Construction Site’ in November 1999 during a tour of Germany sponsored by the government of that country.
International Year of Women: A tribute to my triumvirate of heroines(3)
SHORTLY after the move, I received a letter through my elementary school that I was invited to Government College Ughelli for “a short list examination and interview.”
How Jonathan handed aggrieved govs the excuse they needed
It was an opportunity and they grabbed it with both hands.
The aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, (G-7) wanted a reason to dump their party and they were handed one by no other person than President Goodluck Jonathan himself.
And although some of the seven governors explained that they all knew that Jonathan was not prepared to meet with them and resolve the issues that gave rise to the crisis, given his body language and the sustained acts of impunity arising from the party leadership, they waited for the appropriate time.
