Yar’Adua’s luck, Nigeria’s misfortune

Shareby Okey Ndibe
Last week, Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa went out of his way to establish his closeness to Aso Rock resident, Umaru Yar’Adua. With Nigeria gripped by widespread rumors of Mr. Yar’Adua’s death in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, Aondoakaa set out to squelch the whispered falsehood. In a statement, he told Nigerian, in effect, [...]

December 1, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Okey Ndibe  Comments

A Picture Of African Leadership

Shareby Reuben Abati
Dennis Sassou-Nguesso, the President of Congo-Brazzaville has offered to the world yet another picture of leadership in Africa that is worse than ugly. A book purportedly written by him titled Straight Speaking From Africa has just been disowned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation for wrongly attributing to Mr Nelson Mandela a foreword to [...]

October 25, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Reuben Abati  Comments


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