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A president without charm

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Death skulked all of us as though we were reptiles wild-eyed in the dark. We wanted to pounce. We craved blood. Some wanted the terminal face of Yar’Adua on newspaper front pages, heralding a mournful nation, or a nation in quiet joy over the passing of quiescent president.

It came as a rumour. The [...]

December 7, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Sam Omatseye  Comments

PDP and Manchester United

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From the outset, I must confess loyalties. I owe no passion for any of the football fancies of the day. I am an agnostic in this feverish play of pieties that exalts the foreign to the asphyxiation of local talents.

While many of us, in our post-colonial imbecilities, may throw our weights behind Manchester United [...]

November 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Sam Omatseye  Comments


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