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The ruse of anti-corruption war
A RUSE. That is the only way to describe the much talked-about war against corruption in Nigeria. Despite grandstanding by this government or its officials and protestations to the contrary, there is ... -
What, after the state of emergency?
Ogaga Ifowodo. Many who have quite rightly praised President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe – strongholds of Boko Haram ... -
Maybe no one thinks in Abuja
’Tunji Ajibade. President Goodluck Jonathan did something for the Nigeria Police recently that made one think. The police had their week of parade and awards, and the President was there in person. ... -
Jonathan’s half-time: Club down, manager out
Nasir Ahmad El Rufai. May 6th 2013 marked three years since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became president of Nigeria. It therefore is the right time to look at how well it has fared. Two years is suffici ... -
NGF Election: A foretaste of things to come?
Just when it was thought that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, had won his re-election as chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), the story changed. In its inimitable fashion, a factio ...
NGF Election: A foretaste of things to come?
Just when it was thought that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, had won his re-election as chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), the story changed. In its inimitable fashion, a faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party sympathetic to President Goodluck Jonathan, reached for its…
Jonathan’s half-time: Club down, manager out
Nasir Ahmad El Rufai. May 6th 2013 marked three years since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became president of Nigeria. It therefore is the right time to look at how well it has fared. Two years is sufficient time to examine what promises have been kept, what projects are on schedule…
Maybe no one thinks in Abuja
’Tunji Ajibade. President Goodluck Jonathan did something for the Nigeria Police recently that made one think. The police had their week of parade and awards, and the President was there in person. And he had glowed under the euphoria of the occasion: “My sense of pride stems…
Our democracy and the missing dividends
AYO OLUKOTUN. The expression, “dividends of democracy”, although worn-out and clichéd from overuse, has emerged in our political linguistics as a…
On Buhari’s call for the President’s resignation
RENO OMOKRI. Reading the interview Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) granted Daily Trust which was published on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, I…
The Achebe I knew
CHIDO ONUMAH. “Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par excellence of…
Embarrassing power plays
The national news has of recent been dominated by the endless power tussles between political leaders. While robust contestation is normal…
In Achebe’s company ‘the prison walls fell down’
MAX AMUCHIE. IN the couple of months following his death up to his burial today, the world has risen in unison…
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