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Obasanjo is an Honourable Man…
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Honour has a new admirer. Morality has a new sweat heart. His name is Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Speaking at an event in Abuja on Thursday, Obasanjo released his most direct salvos against President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since the ex-president honourably imposed the Katsina man as his successor in 2007 via elections that were [...]
January 24, 2010
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We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
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A young Nigerian boy, named Farouk, went to the UK to study engineering. The chap started attending mosques where radical preachers, rather than concentrate on propagating Islam and exhorting Muslims to love their neighbours, spend most of the time denouncing the West and the Great Satan (commonly known as the US). UK did [...]
January 10, 2010
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Yar’Adua’s Health and Power Rotation
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My phone rang. I was deep in sleep, but I was rudely woken up Wednesday morning by the call. “Sorry to wake you up, Simon. Have you heard? The president is dead,” the voice said. Half-awake, or half-asleep, I replied: “It’s not true.” Why was I so confident President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was [...]
November 30, 2009
Tags: constitution, governance, Nigeria, PDP, power rotation, Yar’Adua Posted in: Simon Kolawole Comments
Constitution on Trial at Appeal Court
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I don’t know much about Chief Andy Uba. He had always run his life away from the limelight, until he dived into the “murky waters” of politics. I have met him only once – at the THISDAY summit tagged “Nigeria Meets the World”, held in New York two years ago. He was in [...]
November 1, 2009
Tags: anambra, Andy Uba, appeal court, bode, constitution, corruption, Governor, npa, PDP, supreme court Posted in: Simon Kolawole Comments
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