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: , , ,   Posted in: Dele Momodu  Comments

Are We Better Off?

ShareBy Bisi Ojediran
I imagine how US President Barack Obama would have felt if he tried putting in a call to Nigerian authorities on hearing the news of Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to detonate explosives on Delta Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with 278 passengers and crew aboard. That is if he had not expected a call from [...]

January 1, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Bisi Ojediran  Comments

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: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Reuben Abati  Comments

Yar’Adua: To save this glass castle…

ShareBy Kayode Idowu
There is more than a passing comparison to make between world golf phenomenon, Tiger Woods, and our own UMYA – I mean, President Umaru Yar’Adua. They are both public figures (certainly, not on the same scale) and have in the past week or so been invaded with intense public attention in matters that, [...]

December 7, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Kayode Idowu  Comments


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