I know that most of you, except those with vested interests, worry less on the state of health of President Umar Musa Yar’adua, whose ailing conditions had put him in …
Nigeria Matters
-
-
In our very own Nigeria, in Asaba, at the recently established Federal High Court, it is a very different kind of season. For Mr James Ibori and his fellow travellers, …
-
It must have been around 1984 that Wole Soyinka declared his generation, ‘the wasted generation’. The 1986 Nobel Laureate in literature had accused anyone who was 40 years old or …
-
Those who seem bent and intent on denying Fashola re-nomination also seem determined to drive a wedge between him and Alhaji Bola Tinubu in order to rupture their effective and …
-
Nigeria’s social dilemma is money. We ruminate endlessly on how, when and where to get it. We place far more value on material success than cultural and human values…
-
Inconsistency will be a recipe for disaster. Your adversaries are alarmists and carpetbaggers. They couldn’t do it when you were up. Now they want to remove the drip and turn …
-
Politics apart, President Shehu Yar’Adua deserves our empathy and prayer at this crucial time of his life in the spirit of brotherhood and nation building…
-
Nigeria is once again at one of those junctures where tripping over the precipice cannot be ruled out. At issue is the President’s serious illness, and increasing calls by some …
-
A sneak preview of the fiery war that awaits us in the aftermath of Yar’Adua’s complicated health state is the internecine power struggle that has started and which threatens to …
-
What exactly is at stake in the face of President Yar’Adua’s frequent hospitalizations and absence from the presidency? It is rather simple. The issue is President Yar’Adua’s violation or willful …
-
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the death toll from armed-conflicts stands at an alarming 9.2 million within the last ten years, which is equivalent to the population of either London, Central African …
-
It is no secret that the president of our federal republic currently endures a difficult personal trial of his own in the form of a severe body ailment. The treatment …
-
I have never been more hopeful and enthusiastic about a National programme than I am now and my reasons cannot be unconnected to the integrity of Prof. Dora Akunyili, the …
-
While I believe the honorary doctorate to Uba was right, UniZik should perhaps have been more creative in the choice of honour. To confer on him Doctor of Public Administration …
-
Let us now consider the phrase “Being economical with the truth”: The meaning is “Conveying an untrue version of events by leaving out the important facts. It is a euphemism …
-
The prevailing cliché at the moment is the silly projection that Yar’ Adua will still rule this country for another 5 years. I have been tempted to see that dream …