Archive for the ‘Guardian’ Category
Mamadou Tandja And The Coup In Niger
ShareBy Reuben Abati
INTERNATIONAL organisations and other stakeholders commenting on the coup that took place in Niger on February 19 have been making the right diplomatic and politically correct noises. While all that familiar stuff about a military coup being an aberration and a major setback for the democratic process in Africa is acceptable, the truth [...]
February 21, 2010
Tags: coup, Mamadou Tandja, Niger, Nigeria, Tiger Woods, Yaradua Posted in: Reuben Abati 
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Dissecting the Jonathan Presidency
Shareby Reuben Abati
Nigeria has a new ‘acting’ president courtesy of the action taken by the National Assembly to resolve the terrible impasse into which President Umaru Yar’Adua had thrown the entire country by refusing to transmit a letter to the National Assembly in line with Section 145 of the Constitution. There is no doubting the [...]
February 12, 2010
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Is Haiti still habitable?
ShareBy Luke Onyekakeyah
THE catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged Haiti on January 12, 2010 has brought to the fore concerns about the continued habitation of people on the dangerous Haitian tip of the Hispaniola Island in the Caribbean Sea. Though, two countries share the Island, namely: Dominican Republic and Haiti, the Haitian part appears to [...]
February 2, 2010
Tags: earthquake, Haiti Posted in: Luke Onyekakeyah Comments
Obasanjo On Obama: Two-faces And A Forked Tongue
ShareBy Sonala Olumhense
EVERY Nigeria ought to read “Obama’s election and the needed change,” in The Guardian of October 6, 2008. It is painful to read, but it was Aristotle, remember, who taught that “We cannot learn without pain.”
The article was penned by Olusegun Obasanjo. This is a man that had two chances to serve his [...]
January 24, 2010
Tags: obama, obasanjo Posted in: Sonala Olumhense Comments
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