Professing Dangerously: the Road to Charles Soludo
Shareby Pius Adesanmi
My title plays on the title of Professor Femi Osofisan’s inaugural lecture at the University of Ibadan, “Playing Dangerously”, and my reasons shall become apparent presently. First, an anecdote. Back in secondary school, one of my close cousins, Bola Akanbi, fell in love with Professors. Bola and I were then sharing the same [...]
December 11, 2009
Tags: anambra, PDP, politics, soludo Posted in: Pius Adesanmi 
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NASS: Any hope in a truncated budget?
ShareBy Luke Onyekakeyah
THE unhealthy rivalry that prevented President Yar’Adua from presenting the 2010 budget at the National Assembly (NASS) is an ill wind that blows no one any good. Since 1999, when the current democratic dispensation started, Nigerians have not gained anything from the annual ritual called budget made by governments at all levels. What [...]
December 1, 2009
Tags: budget, national assembly, Nigeria, PDP, Yar’Adua Posted in: Luke Onyekakeyah Comments
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
PDP and Manchester United
Shareby Sam Omatseye
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: anambra, bode, man u, Manchester united, Nigeria, olabode george, PDP, politics, soludo Posted in: Sam Omatseye Comments
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