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: , , ,   Posted in: Pius Adesanmi  Comments

Hope and (some) fear in Anambra

Shareby Okey Ndibe
Friday, November 13, will be remembered as a day of hope for the people of Anambra State, nay Nigerians. That day, the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal dismissed a misconceived lawsuit by Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba – widely known as Andy Uba – seeking to be foisted, via judicial fiat, as the [...]

November 17, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Okey Ndibe  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: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Sam Omatseye  Comments

The NPA Six And Nigeria’s Two-Prison System

Shareby Reuben Abati
WHY won’t the NPA Six who were convicted by Justice Bunmi Oyewole’s court, a court of competent jurisdiction, and who have since been kept in prison not wear prison uniform? The only explanation that can be gleaned from reports in yesterday’s newspapers is that Nigeria runs a two-prison system: one for the rich [...]

November 1, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Reuben Abati  Comments


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