FOR pontificating on current issues in the polity, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has earned an acerbic criticism from Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.



Soyinka describes Obasanjo as a hypocrite, who has no moral standing on the prevailing political crisis in the country.



He said: ÒFirst of all, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo is a hypocrite. He bears full responsibility for the situation in which we find ourselves today.



"And I donÕt take him seriously and that"s… Continue

Commentators have had a field day analyzing the essence of Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Abuja Town Hall Meeting. Her speech so irked the PDP that it took paid adverts to denounce her statements. Such is the banality of politics in Nigeria today that the ruling party is taking issues with America’s top diplomat in the media. But that is another matter.



Forget that she reminded us that the poverty rate in Nigeria has gone up from 46 percent to 76 percent over the last 13 years.… Continue

First, let me confess that I like President Umaru Musa Yar Adua (PUMY); he looks harmless and his first few strides as President were steady. He appealed to our hearts requesting us to trust him to make a change and give us some fresh air. The OBJ tenure was beginning to suffocate us all. But then, two years have passed and I am sure by now PUMY would know the difference between looking at problems from afar and examining them while in the saddle.



My real concern is how to give… Continue

The wind has blown and we have seen the rump of the fowl. Developments in Africa's history have provoked a new thinking on the treatise of Walter Rodney titled, HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA. Post-independence disillusionment has since set in. Post colonial Africa cannot continue to lay the blame of their underdevelopment on colonial intervention. It's very self-satisfying to say, through one of our famous classics, that things began to fall apart when the colonialists came to our land and… Continue

The abductors have demanded a N10 million ransom.



A statement issued in Abuja by Akunyili's Assistant, Sunday Dare, said she was shocked to learn of the kidnap of Edochie, who served as the Chairman of the Re-branding Nigeria Committee.



She wondered why he, "a patriotic Nigerian and role model", could be abducted for monetary gains.



"As part of those who served selflessly in the Committee to reposition Nigeria's image, a programme which I initiated, I see no… Continue