The perennial clampdown by agents of the Federal Government on ethnic associations clamouring for a better deal for their people went beyond...

AGAIN, the battle line seems to have been drawn between the Lagos State government and the Federal Government over the former resolve to est...

By its new law making it mandatory for British banks to report to the police any lodgement by public officers in excess of 10,000 pounds, th...

The tragedies befalling the nation today are the calamitous consequences of the disintegration of the very fabric which holds the entire soc...

When three months ago we wrote an editorial on the Barack Obama streak, we hardly attempted a prediction of how the Democratic Party's p...

JUNE 12 was for years associated with some anticipated trouble. It was the time for labour union and civil society groups to strike, it was ...

THE three-day teachers’ warning strike was long overdue. The teachers could have struck earlier, for the problems are not new. Our long-suff...

THERE may be debates about who Senator Saminu Turaki, former Governor of Jigawa State, speaks for, but the fact is that he has spoken. His m...

THE demise of Chief Lamidi Adedibu would leave Ibadan without its commander, who for decades dictated the fate of the ancient city. Ibadan c...

MUCH must have been expected of Professor Humphrey Nwosu’s book for people to bemoan it being bereft of explosive information on the annull...

RECENT attempts to launder the image of the late General Sani Abacha, Nigeria's maximum ruler between 1993 and 1998 smack of invidious r...

EVEN if it had existed before then, the expression 'failed banks' came into our consciousness in the era of certain financial instit...

IRRESPECTIVE of race or creed, the human memory is 'very short'. There is an inverse correlation between the number of times the pen...

IN Texaco, a novel by the Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau, a city-planner named Christ visits the ghetto which gives the novel its titl...

Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, the then Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), has now given his own account of the June 12, 1993 Presi...

Following the concern raised by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and a non-governmental organisation, Buy Nigeria Campaign, about th...

THE other week, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, acting on the advice of an ad hoc committee set up by his administration to investigate t...

MOODS were just beginning to ascend on an expectant day when the wicked drizzles set in on the finely-laid streets of Abuja. At the Millenni...

I READ Mr. Dele Olojede's article, "Losing my virginity" (The Guardian, June 12, 2008) with deep consternation. He "cut V...

THE title of this piece which has nothing to do with the global food crises may as well have been Begging for Bread at Shoprite. Yes, that...