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Jos Killings: When Will The Madness Stop? — Isa Isawade
Isa-Isawade In the early hours of Sunday 7 March 2010, depraved marauders said to be nomadic Fulani ‘Muslims’ simultaneously invaded the Christian-dominated villages of Dogo-Nahawa, Ratsat and Kamang in Shen district of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria,...
Nigerians And Police Checkpoints —Kanayo Esinulo
Kanayo-Esinulo Each time I listen to the Chief Spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, Deputy Commissioner Emmanuel Ojukwu, on radio or watch him on television defending or rationalising what his men do at police checkpoints along our highways and...
Zoning: Learning From Our Past Mistakes — FRED IGBEARE
Finding something good to say about the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is hard. Considering that it has ruled (ruined) Nigeria for over a decade with little to show for it, the party is easy to criticise. But the PDP is not all bad. In its processes,...
Ango Abdullahi’s Distasteful Falsehood —Solomon Asemota
I read with amazement the falsehood contained in the Ango Abdullahi interview published in TheNEWS Vol 35, No.07 of 23 August 2010 to wit: ‘‘I say, where was the South-South in 1914? And where was the South-South in 1945, 1960? Where were the...
Nigeria: The Gathering Of Ominous Cloud — Bisi Adegbuyi
Writing about Nigeria somewhat comes with its challenges; you wonder where to start from in order to put the issues in proper perspective. If you overcome that challenge, you also have to contend with the issue of order of presentation. Which comes first?...
Tinubu–Fashola: Crossroads, Not Dead-End —Dapo Thomas
The political landscape appears rather dull. It is somehow strange that less than a year to another election, the atmosphere is somehow sombre save for the side attractions created by the House of Representatives when members engaged in pugilistic opera,...
Where Has All The Money Gone? —Olufemi Ogundipe
Olufemi Ogundipe I am writing you this letter with some trepidation because of your oft-stated pronouncement that you do not demean yourself by reading Nigerian newspapers, although I hasten to observe that you have been more than willing to grant interviews...
The North Must Be Careful —Kanayo Esinulo
Kanayo-Esinulo Perhaps without knowing it, the political North has been attracting some resentment to itself from a large fraction of the South. This can be perceived or felt in conversations and other exchanges. The dominant discussions at bus stops,...
A Working Asset, Still
Nuhu-Ribadu Nations are like living organisms. If they are nourished with a diseased breast, the result varies in the dimensions of birth defects, but just as in science so it is in nation building; you cannot plant cassava and hope to reap cocoyam....