N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem
By MAHMUD JAFAR The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money. Nobody needs to explain the ledger from which it was drawn, or the accounting convention that produced it, or whether the sum describes cash that once […]
The SSS provocateur and Ken Saro-Wiwa(2)
THE news spread in our cell and beyond. We wept and mourned, and pointed accusing fingers at the blood-thirsty dictator Abacha for killing Ake. November is not good for me. Fare thee well, November.
2012 guber and the PDP challenge in Edo
WHENEVER a government looks invincible, and the opposition is in a mess, journalists, analysts and political scientists start to speculate on what would seem to be movement towards a one-party state.
Edo 2012: If PDP must zone guber
AS the countdown to the 2012 gubernatorial election in Edo State draws near the permutations and maneuvering in the Peoples Democratic Party has intensified. This is particularly on the issue of the choice of the governorship candidate of the party.
Chukwumerije and the rise of ethnic militias: Issues at stake
ON Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, a public lecture was held to mark the 2011 Igbo Day celebrations, officially hosted by the Ebonyi State Government.
The SSS provocateur and Ken Saro-Wiwa
I FORGOT completely that the returning and repulsive month called November, is around the corner again. The agony of a nation descending into a deeper crisis, and the death of Kingsley Baridilo Kpea, the Ogoni-born petroleum engineer and Comrade who died recently in an Indian hospital, are troubling me, to forget the nauseating month November.
