Time to End this Nonsense
ShareBy Dele Momodu
My second coming, even if intermittently, had been foretold by no less a “prophet” than Simon Kolawole. He had told me it was virtually impossible for a restless writer like me to ignore the sad developments in Nigeria. We had this encounter on the day American Chronicle published on its website that President [...]
February 21, 2010
Tags: Goodluck Jonathan, Jonathan, Nigeria, Yar’Adua Posted in: Dele Momodu 
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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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The Tiger In The Woods
ShareBy Reuben Abati
AMERICANS have been both lachrymose and hypocritical about the private life of Tiger Woods, and now they have forced the golfing genius to lay down his club, as he proceeds on an indefinite leave to sort out his family matters and be a better husband to Elin Nordegren and their two children. It [...]
December 13, 2009
Tags: Elin Nordegren, Eliot Spitzer, Golf, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria, xmas, Yar’Adua Posted in: Reuben Abati Comments
A president without charm
Shareby Sam Omatseye
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: Goodluck Jonathan, governance, health, Nigeria, Yaradua, Yar’Adua Posted in: Sam Omatseye Comments
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