An Ode to the Bull: Celebrating Mike Adenuga and Glo at 23
From his early business activities to oil and gas, banking and eventually telecommunications, his career has followed a recurring pattern: identify an opportunity, accept the difficulty and commit to the long game
I See a New Nigeria
Veteran film maker Tunde Kelani is returning back to the stage to commemorate the nation’s golden jubilee anniversary.
UNN @ 50
ON October 7, 1960, as Nigeria basked in the euphoria of having her independence from Britain, her colonial master, 220 pioneer students of the University of Nigeria came into the campus to start their studies.
Let justice prevail
In defending his master’s action, the Special Assistant to Dr. Sam Egwu the former Minister of Education who was alleged to have made this strange recommendation to the then acting President, Mr. Kelechi Igwe said the recommendation was based on “security report” on the candidate that should have been offered the appointment.
50 years on
Thus – in my books – it is easy to understand why and how the feats of two illustrious ring warriors have painfully been cancelled out by the passivity of the same one-time trail-blazing sport that has swept itself into a pathetic back-bencher position. This is the sad anniversary account of 50 years of boxing in Nigeria.
The capture of Dopkesi: Costs and benefits
WHEN former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s campaign team grabbed Ben Murray Bruce to coordinate their campaign in 1999, no one was in doubt that the team had struck gold. When it comes to putting up a show, you couldn’t ask for a better man than Ben Bruce.
Propriety of INEC’s quest for time extension
THE news of the resolution by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at its last retreat in Calabar to seek time extension for the forthcoming elections in January 2011 did not come to me as a surprise.
As Orji declares for 2nd term
SOON, Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Ahamuefula Orji (Ochendo) would declare his intent for a second term in office on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Why we should close down the CBN for two years (2)
IT was more or less the same story in neighbouring Kenya. Prime Minister Odinga, a Kikuyi , who won the election wanted control of the Central Bank of Kenya.
Amaechi and the social services levy (2)
DURING his address to the State House of Assembly on why the bill should be passed into law, Governor Amaechi explained that the law would consolidate all the recent developments in the education and health sectors.
RIGHT OF REPLY: The Balewa saga
Your editorial of September 24th 2010 titled: “The Balewa Saga” raised some interesting issues and frankly amused me. This was especially so when the writer asserted that “at five” I “was too young to have known what happened” and that I am relying on what my father told me “to refute Mbu’s story”.
