By Tunde Oyasanya THE news of Boko Harram insurgence in Northern parts of the country filtered to me while I was away in Ado Ekiti from Abuja on official assignment. Meanwhile, I didn’t get the full gist of the carnage and I became curious. I could not wait till the next day to read from […]

By Allan Adepoju MORE than any other Nigerian first generation  state, Kwara State has demonstrated higher capacity for political theatrics. Time there was that two incumbent governors – Alhaji Adamu Atta in 1983 and the late retired Rear Admiral Muhammed Alabi Lawal in 2003 – kissed the dust after fierce electoral battles with the septuagenarian […]

By Sunday Dare IT was with great effort that I concluded reading your(Dele Sobowale) last weekend’s disquisition on the re-branding of Dora Akunyili our Honourable Minister for Information and Communication, and principal exponent of the Re-branding Nigeria project. Your title reads, “Re-branding Akunyili and Ohakim”, but I will concentrate on the innuendoes and factual errors […]

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye “SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest,I withdraw from the still woods I loved, I will not go now on the pastures to walk…”– Walt Whitman (1819-1892) in the poem, ‘This Compost’. IN October 2004, Professor Chinua Achebe told Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s “civilian” ruler at the time, that Nigeria […]

By Magnus Eze FOR Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo, his appointment as Acting Inspector General of Police July 22 and subsequent confirmation by the Nigeria Police Council, August 4, capture the age-long saying, that “the patient dog eats the fattest bone”. Onovo had previously acted, though briefly, as IG of the Nigeria Police Force in 2007, before […]