By Kenechukwu Obiezu In climes cracked by dysfunction and areas ripped apart by anomalies, words usually acquire new, twisted meanings, even as deep-running and defining games altogether come to be tainted with brushes that do not exactly flatter, mostly in service of extraordinary guile, gullibility or even blistering hypocrisy. Many Nigerians are convinced that politics […]

By Eric Teniola This is the concluding part of this piece which last week revealed why Obasanjo declined to head the ING set up by IBB but urged Gen Yar’Adua to resist Abacha’s membership of the interim government YAR’ADUA reluctantly agreed to Abacha’s retention as he did not want to give Babangida a pretext to remain […]

By Louis Odion ‘YES, next?” “Sir, the next person on the list,” continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily, “is the widow you met sometime ago while on project inspection and you said we should include her name among those to be paid monthly from the money you gave us to […]

By Pat Utomi ONCE in a while providence provides us the privilege of convergence when the Christian season of reconciliation and the Ramadan overlap.  This year it comes as the country roils from much that has gone wrong. The smell of death chokes our breathing and the pangs of hunger and scourge of unemployment assails our […]

WARREN Gamaliel Bennis (1925-2014), an American author and scholar, regarded as one of the pioneers of contemporary leadership studies, famously said: “Leadership is the ability to translate vision into reality.”