In sympathy with Grange
By IYIOLA SMITH
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The nation has been told of how top officials in the Federal Ministry of Health shared 300million naira being the unspent sum in the capital vote of the 2007 financial year. And such has caused a lot of indignation across beard The sharing was in utter defiance of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's directive that all unutilized funds in the budget be returned to the government. | Read Story

Yar’Adua: Any agenda for human rights? right?
By EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO
Monday, May 12, 2008

Barely one month to the first anniversary of the emergence of the current Federal administration headed by Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who was sworn in as the third executive civilian president of the federal republic of Nigeria on May 29, 2007 | Read Story

• Last days of Udenwa’s regime
• Organized crimes: Ohakim should wake up
• Wamakko still stands disqualified for Sokoto re-run
• Can oil and gas save Nigeria?
• Obi’s two years in office
• Atiku’s doublespeak and Adamawa election
• The Babalakin example
• PDP’s 60-year rule: Ogbulafor is right
• The missing aircraft and the missing points
• Egwu: Honour well deserved
• Ending Nigerian workers’ nightmare
• The madmen in police uniform
• Imo and the problem of organized crimes
• China’s olympic challenge and the world
• Why Wamakko is not qualified for Sokoto re-run
• Yar’Adua and Nigerian hospitals
• Obi’s two years of excellence
• Corruption as a Nigerian Reality
• Consequences of flawed elections
• Nigeria’s leadership crisis
• Andy Uba and his hack writer
• Gani at 70: Celebration of a legal icon
• Bayelsa again; Opportunities to take or to lose
• Okiro should call Usman Biu to order
• As Yobe doubles teachers’ salaries
• INEC should tread cautiously in Sokoto
• Is this a case of familiar spirit?
• AMORC, Akinnola and the perversion of truth
• No harm in the power probe
• Imo: Double tragedy for street-wise desperadoes
• Remembering Marshall Harry: Will justice ever prevail?
• Akpabio’s N6.7 billion Government House
• Grange, more sinned against than sinned?
• INEC’s redemption at Kogi Golgotha
• The truth about Akwa Ibom newspaper machine
• Budget row in Anambra
• A new approach to anti-graft war
• Nonsense over an airline
• Next public service reforms
• Anambra and donor agencies
• The bizarre politics in Sokoto
• A return to Nigeria’s 2007 elections
• Beyond the exit of Adenike Grange
• Obi and the Onitsha Stock Exchange
• The Budget 2008 ‘go-slow’
• Why Iwu is not the issue
• Due Process: The hunter becomes the hunted
• Egwu got it all right
• Oil firms and their masquerades
• Nuclear madness must stop
• Two hearts that beat as one
• Why Maurice Iwu prevailed
• Between violence and truth
• Beyond the power sector revelations
• Situating Danjuma’s new historicism
• The limits of propaganda
• Dual citizenship constitutes no bar to Iwu holding office as INEC chairman
• Danjuma: Vituperations of a bloody traitor
• The power contracts scam
• Further harrassment of Iwu rings hollow
• Refining our crude abroad? A joke, isn’t it?
• The new face of Anambra State
• Looting the dead
• Issues in the immunity clause
• The loopholes in Abia tribunal’s judgement
• Osun and politicisation of forensic analysis
• The PDP convention (2): Where do they go from here?
• Understanding the Obama challenge
• Celebrating Dangote, world’s richest black man
• Re: God, Nigeria and IBB
• When the devil is on your case
• Finding the way to God
• Choosing our leaders
• Africa: Five hundred years to progress
• The PDP convention: Hope as the only choice
• Anyim: Lest we forget
• Yar’Adua: 85 days to May 29
• Damning assault on the press
• Still on Baby Kehinde and UCH
• Politics: Why OBJ makes it do-or-die
• Election disputes and national progress
• PDP needs a conciliator, not war monger
• PDP Chair: Nigerians unite for Egwu
• Anyim and his ambition
• FG and emerging cult groups
• National Assembly and morality question
• Why Egwu should be PDP chairman
• Between Baby Kehinde and UCH
• National monuments: A rejoinder…
• Iwu, an agent of stability
• Redefining the national honours award
• Arewa Youth and pragmatic federalism
• Castro and Cuba: The Icon winds down
• Viewing Abuja in a new order
• DELSU medical students’ protest
• PDP Convention: Test case for reforms
• Indecent dressing, who’s really offended?
• No Ndibe, Iwu must stay
• Nigeria: Between degeneration and regeneration
• Lame propaganda against Egwu
• 419 legislators and Aliyu’s recanting
• What the election tribunal judgments say
• Yar’Adua’s style: Caution is no crime
• The brigandage in Akwa Ibom
• National Monuments (4): Restoring the Independence...
• Akwa Ibom’s troubled democracy
• Tribunals, preparing for the alternative
• Nebo’s giant strides in UNN
• Akwa Ibom: No longer at ease
• Egwu and PDP Chair
• National Monuments (3): Due process and the...
• Mr President, it’s time to bring Slok home
• Nuhu Aliyu and ‘419’ legislators
• Odah and the electoral reform committee
• Barack Obama: Not just a black candidate!
• A word for Edwin Clark
• Iwu saved the day for Nigeria
• Moving Anambra State forward
• IBB can’t change history by wish
• Why Iwu should conduct bye-elections
• National Monuments (2): The Independence Building tragedy
• Nigerian and GSM stakeholders
• Let Iwu be heard
• Sokoto waits for justice
• Nigeria beware, Kenya could happen here!
• Yar’Adua: Indices of shaky performance
• God, the Nation and IBB
• The menace of armed robbery
• National monuments (1)
• Niger Delta as a global burden
• Kenya: Where are the revolutionaries?
• In search of the “Higher Man”
• Why Yar’Adua will not fight corruption
• Andy Uba’s quest for justice
• Toward an Afrocentric development plan
• Our incorrigible electoral process
• Re: Confession, celibacy and the Catholic Church
• Kudos to the Supreme Court
• The anti-corruption crusade: Defusing a personality cult
• The anti-corruption crusade: Defusing a personality cult
• April polls and the EU observers’ report
• Handling deadlocks in international negotiation
• What does Professor Iwu take Nigerians for?
• Need for stable democracy
• Veronica our daughter: Memories despoilt
• Wrong strokes for 2008
• Nigeria’s telecoms problems
• 2008: A year of closure or new beginnings?
• Igbo should rise for Uwazurike
• The LG ‘elections’ fiasco
• Task before Kaduna Appeal Court
• Confession, celibacy and the Catholic Church
• We need a new beginning
• Nigeria and Africom: No time for knee-jerk diplomacy
• Re: Igbo and the Jewish connection (2)
• Re: Igbo and the Jewish connection (1)
• Nigeria and endless rigmarole
• Sacrifices of love and peace
• Ikenna Ezenekwe and media terrorism
• Let Enugu work
• Posers for Code of Conduct Bureau
• Ibori as symbol: Guilty until proven innocent?
• Face-to-face with Gov. Obi
• Egwu and PDP chairmanship
• Poverty destroys dignity
• A young man and visa lottery
• 49 garlands for Andy Uba
• Facing corruption charges
• Needless war over OPL 291
• The Imo clean and green initiative
• Conquering the energy monster
• Iwu and 2007 elections
• A legacy in the making -Yar’Adua’s year
• Why is Obi not talking?
• PDP chairmanship race
• Doing governor Daniel a disservice
• As Sokoto awaits Appeal Court intervention
• Potentially disabled people (PDP)
• Iwu, a victim of circumstance
• Limits of ritual video in Abia
• When animals get on board
• Leadership, money and the Niger Delta problem
• Energy crisis and Nnaji’s example
• For caution on Bakassi
• The chairman PDP needs
• We shouldn’t nail the police yet
• Not yet murder incorporated
• Democracy health check-list
• Akunyili and doctors’ competence
• Obi’s road development initiative in Anambra
• Ekwueme: A political colosus of our time
• Again the sit tight syndrome
• PDP Chairmanship: Why Egwu fits the bill
• The Kano LG polls mayhem
• Before we crucify Iwu, INEC…
• Okiro, can he really pull a trigger?
• The gaps in Sokoto Tribunal’s judgment
• Back to local politics
• Role of religion in transforming society
• The trial of Etteh
  
• PDP leadership: Who wears the crown?
• Tribunal challenges: Will they reap the whirlwind?
• PDP chairmanship: Separating the wheat from the chaff
• Anyim: National duty calls again
• The drug trafficking deluge
• I won’t pray with Obasanjo
• On Attah’s so-called controversial projects
• Sam Egwu is on course
• Perverse Musharraf….
• Chissano and leadership challenge in Africa
• Rape of justice in Sokoto
• Tribunal challenges: Will they reap the whirlwind?
• Let’s rubbish Ndigbo
• So, what will now happen to Etteh?
• Ekwueme at 75: Time for statemenship
• Time for ‘do-or-die’ decisions
• A renaissance option for PDP
• What prospects for Uba’s appeal?
• Appraisal of virtues and vices in crises
• Madam Etteh’s withdrawal; concession or sacrifice?
• The man the cap fits
• The race for PDP national chairmanship
• Poverty: The coming revolution
• Towards a healthier democracy
• The limit of aberrant journalism
• Abia demands equity from NDDC
• Issues in VAT increase
• Fashola and Lagos Mega City
• Anambra at the Supreme Court
• Ibori, EFCC and mob justice
• Attah vs. Akpabio: Vox populi, vox dei?
• The House of Reps: Matters arising
• Journalism according to Fresh Facts
• Ndukwe, a moment of glory
• Nigerian economic realities: An uneasy peace
• Okey Ndibe On Andy Uba
• Osun varsity’s dangerous precedent
• PDP, a quiver full of vices
• Obi and his traducers
• The House of Reps drama
• Amaechi: The matter before Supreme Court
• Who needs N1,000 national identity card?
• Amaechi: Obfuscating the issues
• LG polls: An opportunity for redemption
• Delta without oil
• Re: Peter Obi’s tenure
• Role of writers in development
• Choose ye whom you’ll serve
• Idiocy syndrome in Nigerian leadership
• Vigilance wanted not paranoia
• The odds against Amaechi
• This cycle of gang-rape must stop
• Nigerian Police in the eyes of the public
• Upholding justice and truth (4)
• Between Ekwueme and Uba
• Searching for a speaker: Right person, wrong party?
• The Elite as the problem
• Etteh: Language as physiognomy of the mind
• Okey Dike’s agenda for Imo PPA
• Etteh should be chatting with Ribadu
• Maritime Authority: 20 years of groping
• Upholding justice and truth (3)
• Atiku and the new Nigeria
• NLNG prize, the gods and IBB
• Celebration of falsehood in Enugu
• EFCC and the rule of law: A burning issue
• Akwa Ibom: Anatomy of bitterness
• The Economic agenda: Between theory and reality
• Ghaddafi: From bad boy to big brother
• Sleep as metaphor
• Eaglets’ success and paradigm for greatness
• Abia and the Ochendo principle
• ANPP did not betray Buhari
• NDDC: De-politicizing a legacy
• Ekwueme in Nigerian politics
• Jigawa’s succour for the disabled
• Wreath for thieves and treasury looters
• Fashola, keeping hope alive
• Upholding justice and truth (1)
• Ohakim’s answer to one big question
• Re: The coup against the Naira
• Ohakim’s answer to one big question
• Nigeria’s U-17 Victory: A sign of the times?
• Obi: The master planner
• Nigeria’s U-17 Victory: A sign of the times?
• Obi: The master planner
• The glorious Golden Eaglets
• Anyim and PDP national chairmanship
• In these ill-tempered times
• A country in a perpetual rigmarole
• A country in a perpetual rigmarole
• A panel beater @ work (2)
• Obasanjo and CCB: Beyond assets declaration
• Etteh and the stake of honour
• One year of NIMASA
• Etteh: A shaky start
• Privatisation and the steel sector
• This business enterprise called politics
• This business enterprise called politics
• Despite all, Nigeria is my country
• EU, Iwu and the April polls
• Orji's 90-day score-card
• IBB and years of the locusts
• Rivers’ crisis and a triumvirate contestation
• Consolidating the Naira (2)
• PPA and virile political order in Imo
• This is Gov. Peter Obi
• Now that Imo has commissioners
• Africa and the information age: Where is the good news?
• BPE, anti-graft and others
• Naira: The Soludo solution
• Strong arm politics in Enugu
• See, the ugly duckling is changing
• Royal anarchy in Anambra
• Consolidating the Naira
• The coming PDP National Convention
• Anambra House goes mad again
• Give Ohakim a chance
• The Vice President and public account ability
• Egwu and the future of PDP
• The siege on Port Harcourt
• MTN and the UNGC challenge
• The poverty of statistics
  Between Aspiration and Realization
• ‘Steal all you can and bargain later’
• Why vilify Sam Egwu?
• Between Chigbue and her traducers
• Crime and control strategies
• Confronting corruption: Courting glory or disaster?
• Egwu remains a model
• The Gulder Ultimate Search tragedy
• A new direction
• After refineries’ botched sale, what next?
• Bode Augusto and the Senate
• Poverty, corruption, culture and all that (2)
• Abia: Election petition as media affair
• Uwaifo and the Supreme Court
• Bauchi: Can Yuguda make the difference?
• Cote D’Ivoire’s peace: Starting a West African journey
• Privatisation: Between cost and value
• The president’s cabinet
• Looking for another Jesus
• EFCC’s unfinished business
• Parliamentary system is the way out
• Poverty, corruption, culture and all that
• Mosop, the Ogonis and I: Some clarifications
• Stop the carnage on women and children
• Between Kalu and mob justice
• Ghana’s currency revolution: Sub-regional implications
• The politics of Orji Kalu’s detention
• Borodo’s timely alert
• When will the real hostages be taken?
• Tackling the infrastructure challenge
• Mutual ascent at Mutual Benefits Assurance
• The accreditation of Onitsha General Hospital
• Igbo: The whipping boy of Nigeria
• EFCC onslaught: What manner of justice?
• For Ohakim, It’s time for action
• Governors on trial: Time to spill the beans
• Kalu and the Anti-Corruption
• Between Ogun and OOU students
• What Obi told Anambra League
• Our ‘Go slow’ president
• T. A. Orji: The fallacies within
• Assessing the GNU idea (2)
• Politics of anti-corruption war
• Niger Delta problem and Margaret Hill’s abduction
• Nemesis of power: The Anambra lesson
• Legislative probity: Is the nation ready?
• Yar’Adua’s government and legitimacy question
• Murder of the Nigerian deportee
• Is Yar’Adua really in charge?
• Assessing the GNU idea
• Politics of empty treasury and debt burden
• No more vacancies
• Ghana at 50: Africa's success story
• The morality of Yar'Adua's assets declaration
• The president’s millions
• Umana as Akwa Ibom SSG
• Yar’Adua’s unity government
• Benefits of Ibom Airport and Hangar
• Governors should learn from history
• Case for Cargo Airport in Anambra
• Labour’s intransigence and Yar’Adua’s first leadership test
• Labour and the new order: Groping in the dark?
• Lessons of the general strike
• Imo: No anxieties over election tribunals
• The ‘Five Naira’ conundrum
• The marshal as patriot
• Policies, loyalties and political stability
• The rebirth of Jigawa
• Niger Delta: Goodluck to Jonathan
• Abia: Shape of things to come
• Trials of Anambra State: What lessons
• Obi’s trouble, not yet over
• Between Nyerere and Egwu
• Murder of an enterprising photographer
• Yar’Adua needs a new economic paradigm
• A president’s epitaph
• Ogun: Where do we go from here?
• Need for peace in Akwa Ibom
• “Holy Ghost fire” in Owerri
• Is black Nigeria under extinction?

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