A Season of Midterm Reports: Where are the States?
For the first time since the return to civil rule in 1999, a properly documented mid-term report which I will prefer to call “GEJ’s Big Green Book” was presented to…
Holes in the House Report
The House of Representatives’ committees on Justice and Aviation on Thursday submitted a 12-page report on the grounding of Bombardier B700 Global Express (N565RS) said to belong to the Rivers…
Editorial: That Jonathan Democracy Day Address
The Democracy Day commemoration speech by President Goodluck Jonathan was disappointing for failing to accurately capture the state of the nation. It was obvious that the President wanted to paint…
Editorial: Governors Forum and Presidential Impunity
It has been said that those whom the gods want to destroy; they first of all drive them mad. This time-worn expression best describes the Presidency in their running battle…
NGF, Akpabio And The Limits Of Political Rascality
What shall we call it? Was it just a simple coup at the dusk, an authoritarian flight of fancy that came crashing, Rotimi Amaechi’s second coup, Friday night abracadabra or…
NGF and the Defeat of the Garrison Candidates: A Prelude to 2015
The election of Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) finally held on Friday, May 24 and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has emerged victorious. Polling 19 votes out of…
Jonathan’s Half-Time: Club Down, Manager Out
May 6th 2013 would make it 3 years since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became president of Nigeria. As an elected government, the administration would be celebrating its second anniversary next week.…
The Achebe I knew
“Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par excellence of contemporary Nigerian society”- Chinua Achebe, The Trouble with Nigeria. Prof. Chinua…
Contemporary problems of democracy
So powerful and attractive, and yet so elastic and abused is the concept of democracy that it can be used, and has been used or invoked, as an organizing principle…
Editorial: State of Emergency: Matters Arising
The recent declaration of a state of emergency in three north eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa deserves careful attention both to substance and symbolism. First, no concrete time-line…