Akpabio and the new Akwa Ibom
By Anietie Ekong
Friday February 03, 2012

A lot has been written about Chief Godswill Akpabio and his Uncommon Transformation of Akwa Ibom since he mounted the saddle four and a half years ago as the Governor. There is a general consensus even among political opponents and critics that he has turned a once pedestrian and largely civil service state to a destination of choice in Nigeria through world class infrastructure. .| Read Story

Abubakar: IGP with a burden
By Wale Sokunbi ( 08056180228 walesokunbi2003@yahoo.co.uk )
Wednesday February 01, 2012

Mohammed Dikko Abubakar stepped into office as Acting Inspector General of Police last week with lorryloads of expectations from Nigerians who want fresh impetus in the battle against Boko Haram.
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• Bayelsa: Overcoming a tragedy of errors!
• Abubakar: IGP with a burden
• Boko Haram: A faceless voice
• Occupy Nigeria as copycat cowards
• Thoughts on reforms in our land
• Terrorist outrages: It’s unfair to blame Jonathan!
• The case for local police
• Tears for Kano
• Be still and know that I am God: An appeal to Nigerians
• Fuel Subsidy Removal Debacle: Advisers’ Failures
• Fuel subsidy: An agenda for change
• 2012: Transformation by provocation: Is this the new order?
• Gruesome killing of corps member (2)
• Indigenisation in Abia and Imo job scheme
• Gruesome killing of corps member (1)
• In defence of fuel subsidy removal
• Imoke’s 2012 Budget of Delivery
• The oil subsidy argument
• Boko Haram: Exploring a spiritual solution
• The New Year slap from President Jonathan
• We sail, sink together
• Acting fast on editorial opinions
• The ‘spirit’ behind Boko Haram
• 2012: Facing challenges, or overcoming them!
• In defence of fuel subsidy removal
• Impact of fuel subsidy on the masses
• Okotie and the fuel subsidy debate
• Sharing my views
• Nigeria’s elusive peace and the looming refugee crisis [1]
• Facing the final chapter: Refections on age
• No place for state police
• Fuel: The unspoken agenda
• Yes to fuel subsidy withdrawal
• Re: Ojukwu and the Biafran cross
• Count me out, please!
• Budgetary signals on security: Caution or anticipation?
• Making local governments work
• 2012 Budget and the security challenge
• Electricity: The human capital difference
• Fuel Subsidy: Ripe for management not removal!
• Nigeria Police and vindication of a soothsayer
• Creation of more states and tenure elongation
• Education: A new beginning in Anambra
• Fuel subsidy lies
• Akpabio: An agenda of destiny
• Nzeribe’s 21-year war against corruption
• The Bayelsa Saga and PDP’s selection criteria
• Senate and Same Sex Marriage Bill
• Jonathan and wasteful public officials
• Why I love Odumegwu-Ojukwu 
• Honour for me, Adike, Asiabaka and others
• Ikenna Ndaguba: A class act - a shining light
• In these interesting times!
• Farida’s sack and the anti-graft crusade
• NYSC members and the private sector
• Ojukwu: The Legend lives on
• The cost of overusing power
• Cost of governance and national development
• The Bayelsa imbroglio and unnecessary distractions
• Just before subsidy removal
• Before the ban on rice imports
• Private universities and the ETF
• Self-Eulogy: Inside Out
• The 2011 National Honours Awards
• A failed generation and the broken dreams of a nation
• Meditation on my country (1)
• Paving the way for industrialisation
• Containing homegrown terrorism: A grave imperative
• Corruption and subsidy removal
• Gov T.A. Orji’s seed of paranoia
• Voter apathy and challenge of democratization
• Re: Legitimacy of additional states to the S'East & others
• Reviving the manufacturing sector
• West African democracy and the gathering storm
• The president must hear this
• LASU’s controversial fees regime
• Gaddafi as metaphor
• Facts on fuel subsidy
• Pa John Otozi Egwu: A profile
• Bayelsa again! Can the best man win?
• Akpabio and his many assessors
• Re: Fuel subsidy: Jonathan beware of darkness
• Dilemma of Citizen Akpan
• Wrong thinking, shameful results
• Ndigbo and Nigeria's transformation
• Liberia: Getting it wrong even when things go right!
• Lekki Free Zone: A dream gone awry
• Ayodele: Death on a pensions queue
• Enough of these education summits
• Developmental strides in Akwa Ibom at 24
• Goodluck Jonathan’s dilemma
• The transformation agenda: Is everyone on board?
• Half history, halt truth
• Who will tell the president?
• Can Nigeria capture positive intellectualism?
• Rochas Okorocha and his traducers
• Akpabio: Editorial abuse of honorary degrees
• State creation and Igbo marginalization
• Liberia: Opposition bickers, Johnson-Sirleaf strengthens!
• NDIGBO: Jews of Africa
• Kwankwaso and the minimum wage saga
• Nigeria @ 51 and the Blackman’s dilemma
• Testimonies from the vineyard
• A Golden day (made more golden by objectivity!)
• Goodluck Jonathan’s dilemma
• Celebrating Nigeria at 51
• Revenue formula and public accountability
• Deluge of awards for Akpabio
• For emergency in education sector
• Distress at NDDC: We have been vindicated!
• Our angels are whores
• Anambra: Maimed but not broken
• The missing link in national security
• Reactions to Anambra @ 20 & letter to Jonathan
• Does Oshiomhole need Edo workers' votes?
• Reflections at 70!
• Biafra, Nigeria and a striking similarity
• For peace in Jos
• Anambra 20 years after: The light shines
• Okonjo-Iweala, the world bank etal
• Nigeria’s Black Friday
• Facing down terror: Polarising blame, an improper response
• The meaning of Boko Haram
• Terror of the floods
• How nepotism thrives in Abuja
• Tribute to Christy Essien-Igbokwe
• GSM at 10, NCC and corporate governance
• Abuja bombings: Single source or unholy alliance?
• Nigeria’s conspiracy against Ironsi
• Fani-Kayode’s burden of truth
• NYSC and the challenges ahead
• Equal states for all geo-political zones
• Consolidating Nigeria's true maritime profile: A challenge 
• The people are leading in Edo
• When Generals fight dirty
• To Anambra workers
• FG’s dilemma: Inheriting future trials from the past
• Sylva’s strides: Fact or fiction
• Violence and social change
• A Chief Judge fails my bar
• Readers bomb Jonathan’s 6-year tenure bill
• Local government reforms and true federalism
• Tenure optimisation, not elongation: The real issues
• Lamentations of a Maiduguri boy
• Don’t kill the South East, readers scream in pain
• Rochas’ monarchy policy and the 4th tier concept
• Fears for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
• Christie Essien Igbokwe My sister
• Diezani Alison-Madueke: Scapegoat or martyr?
• Why Oritsejafor must keep talking
• Bankole’s cross riles his critics
• 2011 polls and our collective destiny
• Before another bomb explodes
• Perspectives on Okotie’s politics
• The passing of icons: Tayo Aderinokun, Twins Seven-Seven
• Power has expiry date
• Re: Beyond Bankole’s N10 billion loan saga
• Betrayal and politics of Tambuwal’s emergence
• Osun State, justice and the paradox of honey
• Betrayal and politics of Tambuwal’s emergence
• Life in and out of political office
• Rains expose underbelly of Lagos
• Let’s say no to bloody money
• Why no honeymoon for Goodluck?
• Odey’s epistle on climate change
• Bankole: Beyond the N10 billion loan saga
• Public Order: President Jonathan’s biggest challenge
• Governance: Inside the soul of Peter Obi
• Buhari, the hostage? Just a sham
• Governor Wilder's testament
• David Mark-bashing or treasonable felony
• Anambra’s silent developmental revolution
• N’Assembly rules not superior to our Constitution
• Meeting Governor Wilder: An encounter with history
• Presidential crown: Jonathan’s burden
• Hard time for Rochas, Ohakim and Imo State
• Open letter to Abiola Ajimobi, Oyo gov-elect
• Imo after Ohakim and things Okorocha should avoid
• Agenda for Rochas Okorocha
• Facing hard truths: Reflections from past columns
• Appeal to Nigeria’s election petition tribunals
• Poll tribunals: The world is watching
• ACN victory: Paradox of a prophecy
• The real problem of Edo PDP
• Obudu Ranch: When two presidents visit
• Jonathan’s victory: Beyond the accidental presidency (2)
• Ndigbo in the new Nigerian political calculus
• Jonathan: The next four year
• Why Akpabio is God’s will again
• Let there be credible poll in Imo today
• Fatiu Ademola Akesode: A personal reminiscence
• Jonathan’s victory: Beyond the accidental presidency (1)
• Osama bin Laden and electoral violence in the North: A Muslim’s perspective
• Re: Time for progress, not bitterness political challenges
• The post-election violence in the North
• The moment of truth: Sundry readers’ responses
• The Jonathan-Buhari electoral battle
• Post-election violence: Unwarranted but not unexpected
• In search of missionary politicians
• 2011 polls: Looking back, looking forward
• Self-demeaning antics of Okey Ndibe
• Time for progress, not bitterness!
• How Yoruba got their nation back (2)
• Presidential poll and its aftermath
• Will Abiye Sekibo triumph in Rivers State?
• Goodluck’s triumph: Jega’s unfinished journey
• BRF: An evolving ideology
• Re: Arresting democracy wreckers political challenges
• How Yoruba got their nation back (1)
• Choosing the president
• The infectious rhythm of change elections: Ndigbo, be wise
• Jega’s redemption: Not yet ‘Uhuru’
• A choice between the past and the future
• Surmounting political challenges
• 68 parties and INEC’s inabilities
• Jega's faulty, shambolic start
• General elections: Ndigbo, be wise
• Jega's fumble: Are Nigerian elections real?
• The botched National Assembly polls
• Arresting democracy wreckers (2)
• Ojukwu is public property
• Presidential & governorship polls: Who gets what?
• Mamora's exit: Asafa and the crumbs of fury
• Gaddafi's last stand: A tragedy for history
• Ohakim and his opponents
• Election 2011: Let’s get it right this time
• Buhari will be president, but…
• 2011, Akunyili and quality representation
• April polls: The type of change we need
• Curbing financial wastage in the public sector
• Olurin's political baptism
• The governors’ rascality
• Why Nigerians should vote wisely
• Akpabio deserves a second term
• Chime: An imminent dash to victory
• Is Nigeria ready for consensus government?
• Cost of voters’ registration versus the ordinary people
• April 9 and the task before Nigerians
• Entrepreneurship studies in our varsities
• North African revolt and Gaddafi’s intransigence
• A new hope for Orlu people
• Reflections on my mentor: Tributes for John Maxwell
• 2011: Politics of renewal or rascality?
• The new Electoral Act and fake governors
• South-west rascals: Forgive Jonathan’s Freudian slip
• Salami vs Katsina-Alu and issues at stake
• Small gods defecating into Osun well
• Nigeria’s democracy: The dangers of judicial intervention
• PDP and its own constitution
• Winds against soul of April polls
• Voter Taofeek and Candidate Buhari
• What does Ribadu-Adeola ticket offer?
• Persecution of a Nigerian citizen in Saudi Arabia
• For a strategic and timely CPC/ACN alliance
• Tell Bankole: Revolt possible here!
• The presidential race: Who would win a run-off?
• Why April polls will be different
• Rape of childhood
• If Jonathan were Igbo
• Ohakim and sixty Catholic Priests
• Jonathan: The future of our constitution
• How the CJN goofed, and penalties (2)
• Is the North still more populated than the South?
• 50 golden cheers to Siyan Oyeweso
• Nigeria’s war drums on Ivory Coast
• The Port Harcourt stampede: Who will pay?
• Voter Register: Where we miss the point
• A bad example
• Voter registration: Reservations from C' River
• Pastor Bakare’s true confession
• Why our systems are failing
• Goodluck’s challenge: Demystifying the North-South divide
• Akpabio: One good turn deserves another
• Mystery of the missing Onyeochas
• The Buhari-Bakare dream ticket
• The Shekarau challenge
• Another garland for Bola Ajibola
• Africa’s new revolution
• The Oyinlola-Bamigboye twins: A tribute
• Jos: Chants of a violent dirge
• Getting it right on Hajj
• How not to build political dynasty
• A vote for Dora Akunyili
• The inter-faith peace plan: Matters miscellaneous (4)
• Nigeria is a goat
• To President Jonathan and Nigerian compatriots
• Electricity workers and the rule of law
• The revival of regionalism: Reversing the clock
• The Abba Gana example
• Rewane Three and Nigeria’s slow wheel of justice
• Goodnight, Tony Enahoro, the debonair 'fugitive' politician
• Nwodo as a fall guy
• Jonathan, Ndigbo and so on…
• INEC's registration palaver: Matters miscellaneous (3)
• Jega, get back to school quick
• Universities: Jonathan should call Okojie to order
• Goodluck's massive triumph: Was there a contest?
• As DPP goes extinct in Sokoto
• Jonathan and the buttered bread theory
• A clear case of intellectual dishonesty
• Ivory coast crisis: Is Gbagbo the villain?
• Jonathan: Overcoming Atiku's challenge
• Enahoro (1923 – 2010) and Pax Nigeriana
• AU and The Fox of Abidjan : Matters miscellaneous (2)
• Saraki: Bestride Kwara, you are a colossus
• How Buhari will fix Nigeria
• Enahoro (1923 – 2010) and Pax Nigeriana
• PDP in the South-south: Sobering victories
• Now that candidate Buhari has emerged
• Time bombs and booby traps of 2011
• Reward as incentive for electoral violence
• Reviving the reading culture
• Atiku and gains of democratic struggles
• Africa’s democratic future: Ominous omens
• PDP: Are governors really the problem?
• Jonathan: Putting a face to the book
• Misinterpretation of Atiku Abubakar
• 2011: The race for Ohaji-Egbema federal constituency
• NDDC: Barret’s funny concoction
• More from Bayelsa: Timi Alaibe’s game changer
• Low impact of the economy on Nigerians
• Dora’s quest for senatorial seat
• A call for issue-based politics
• Jega, INEC and 2011
• Bankole’s campaign on reading culture
• Bayelsa Again: The ironies of political disenchantment
• PDP: Are governors really the problem?
• Buhari: Right choice for opposition consensus
• 2011: Why I want to rule Adamawa
• Sanusi versus federal lawmakers
• 2011: Why Buhari should be president
• Storm at NDDC (2): Defence or rationalisation?
• Anenih: There he goes again
• Me, I no dey laugh o
• A world without HIV/AIDS
• Supreme Court's dismissal of the Sokoto guber case
• Amaechi and the Rivers State renewal imperative
• April Elections: Time to take back our sovereignty (2)
• A case for private universities
• Yoruba land: New political geography
• Kidney failure: Don’t let Adeze die
• 2011: Between Jonathan, Buhari and Shekarau
• Another thrilling Ahiajoku Festival
• As the North names Atiku
• The house Obasanjo built is crumbling
• South-west and 2011 presidential polls
• The storm at NDDC: The disgraceful truth!
• ICPC in the last 10 years
• DPP's ungodly vendetta
• PHCN unionists and the rest of us
• A'Ibom 2011: Akpabio gathers more support
• We must stand up now or perish
• Atiku’s restoration: Regional revenge or national renewal?
• Why Ajaokuta steel plant should start operation
• Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and other disappointments
• Still on Jonathan and Ohanaeze Ndigbo
• 2011 and rising profile of ACN
• Udughan’s removal: When frivolity parades as justice
• Ribadu - Fashola ticket: Why it should work
• The consensus Nigerians want
• Northern presidency: Lamido is right
• Dissolution of councils in Edo
• Goodluck Jonathan: The man who comes after the earthquake
• 2011: Can the opposition seize the opportunity?
• Redefinition of Sokoto politics
• The Lagos doctors’ strike
• Currency war: A threat to world growth
• The metamorphosis of 20 pounds
• Education: The revolution we need
• Goodluck's challenge: A campaign of contradictions
• Farewell to Fidel Odum and Oliver Mobisson
• Dithering on the new minimum wage
• A people and interest-based foreign policy
• The retirement age of university professors
• Ohanaeze Ndigbo: Keeping faith in truth
• The Sylva protest and the people’s mood
• 2011 presidency and opportunism
• New Obas: Gov. Oyinlola's unique model for community development
• Varsities closure: Appeal to S’East governors
• The president’s visit to Anambra State
• Fayemi: The long distance runner nicks his diadem!
• Fayemi’s triumph: Ekiti as symbol of hope
• Who needs an International Airport?
• Re: 2011: To be or not to be
• Fidel Odum: Dying is gain
• Re: 2011: To be or not to be
• Joy Emodi: This issue won’t die
• Limited appreciation: Nigeria's golden fifty
• Our rulers’ uncouth verbiage
• 2011: Political miscalculation in Ogun West
• Those who ruined modern Nigeria
• A bomb at the party: Is this the start of dirty tricks?
• For God and humanity-A tribute to ABC Orjiako at 50
• A bloody anniversary gift
• Peter Obi and leadership integrity
• 2011: To be or not to be
• Fifty years of hope: Just gone or still to come?
• Electricity as fulcrum of development
• Pension funds in power sector bottomless pit
• 2011 presidency and zoning propaganda
• Thinking through Ejiogu's Total Involvement Management
• They blackmail God
• Goodluck vs the rest: What hope for the common man?
• Labour’s impediment to power sector reform
• Jonathan’s ‘Obama’ story
• Patience Jonathan was right
• Re-2011: The way I see it
• 2011 presidency: Zoning, the North and the South-south
• Testing times (2): The presidential dialogue
• What I saw in Haiti
• Ohakim: Can I have your attention?
• Testing times: Dame Patience’s disenchantment
• Ezechukwu on Obi: Crying more than the bereaved
• Why 2011 must not be another lucky dip (2)
• The problem with Jonathan's campaigners
• 2011 elections and national development
• Will Nigeria break up in 2015?
• As Cross River holds LG polls
• Bayelsa again: INEC and the new electoral agenda
• Cracking the great Anambra conundrum
• NBA and lawmakers’ jumbo pay
• Tony Elumelu: Too energetic to be idle
• Akpabio's opponents and the limits of criticism
• Constitution amendment: The unresolved issues
• Nigeria and the illusion of nationhood
• A toast to Eddie Aderinokun and Olusegun Osoba
• INEC: To whom much is given…
• State creation must right past wrongs
• Fashola wake up, Ohakim catching up
• China: Fighting corruption with preventive mechanism
• The president Nigerians want
• Jonathan's quest for credible elections
• Gbenga Daniel: One day, one trouble
• Keita: Sacrificial lamb for ‘system collapse’
• Who’s afraid of the North?
• The Falconets' good example
• Thumbs up for Africa again as Gambari bags award
• Nigerian-Americans killing their spouses in the US (2)
• Sober reflections by DPP in Sokoto
• World Cup, Jabulani and Afri
• Offa: A recipe for sustainable development
• Voters register and credible polls in 2011
• NCAA and the spirit of re-branding
• Duke's exposé and Jega's charge to RECs
• Did Atiku oppose power rotation?
• Did Atiku oppose power rotation?
• Super Eagles: Reflection of the Nigerian State
• Edo and the forthcoming council polls
• Israel’s intransigence: Unmasking the masquerade
• Your views on minimum wage, zoning
• Medical practitioners and professional misconduct
• Kidnapping: If we must win the war
• Akpabio: Imperative of a second term
• 2011 Presidency: South-East govs got it wrong
• New Christianity and the 2nd Commandment
• The rancorous House of Representatives
• Run, Jonathan, run
• Youth corpers and the new minimum wage
• Nwodo's gobbledygook on zoning
• Rev. Okotie's 'divine mandate' et al (2)
• Super Eagles and Nigerian theatrics
• Adamawa: Abuja politicians as elders
• Can Amaechi sustain the Q1 performance in Rivers State?
• Much ado over zoning
• The Gulf oil spill and lessons for Nigeria
• Rev. Okotie's 'divine mandate' et al (1)
• Travails of Ajaokuta steel workers
• Let IBB run, let Jonathan run
• Delta State in the eyes of an expatriate
• The House of Reps: Abdicating responsibility
• The judiciary and Niger State governorship election
• Nigerians angry with rats in the national treasury
• 2011: How to get rid of the enemies within
• Nigeria's most unfriendly business states
• Facts about Ohakim's Imo
• An ordeal in the hands of sons of dogs
• To a remarkable father-in-law
• Super Eagles mournful outing
• Ohakim, critics and the realities
• Facing the next fifty
• Kwara: Moving back into dark age
• Rats in the national treasury
• 2011: PDP, automatic ticket and internal democracy
• Bankole and the rebels in the House
• Letter from Iwu to Jega by proxy
• Deji of Akure's sacrilege
• Babangida: Saint or sinner (3)
• Eleven years of democratic rule (3)
• Mental and emotional health in the workplace
• Impeachment, impunity and political delinquency in Bayelsa
• Niger State’s rural development vision
• Agenda for 50th independence anniversary
• Nigeria: Unorthodox leadership desired
• Jega's challenge
• ALSCON: Security implications of unpaid severance package
• Archbishop Burke and immodesty in the church
• Babangida: Saint or sinner? (2)
• Eleven years of democratic rule (2)
• Powering governance in Anambra with ICT
• National unity: Creating a new horizon
• Issue politics and a sleepwalking nation
• Good thinking from Gov Mimiko
• Obasanjo's outburst in Ondo
• Babangida: Saint or sinner?
• The renaming of Imo State University (1)
• Uduaghan’s web embattlement: Criticism or blackmail?
• The importance of being an Arsenal Fan
• Between Bangkok and Teheran
• ‘Run, Jonathan, Run’
• Factors that aided Obi’s return
• Shekarau and the leadership challenge
• The Catholic church of the end-time
• Mauzu Aliyu and our political education
• Degeneration of Igbo nation
• Africa's youth: A flood of dreams
• South East security: Onovo deserves assistance
• Death of Uchechi Odu: Blame poverty, blame Nigeria
• Barewa: Remains of a great school
• OBJ: This man no send
• How to make your marriage work
• Waiting for Osun tribunal verdict
• My brother, my loss: In loving memory of Iyke Okemuo
• Demise of Yar’Adua and the power equation
• Turai: The moment of truth
• Governors as representatives: Is this realistic?
• Misuse of students
• Sorry fate of Nigerian immigrants
• Akwa Ibom and problem of sustainability
• Bankole: Why is this man always surviving?
• Nigeria’s Foreign Policy: Nonalignment or neocolonialism?
• Yerima, Uwais, child marriage and fundamentalism
• Jonathan, please don’t run in 2011
• Akwa Ibom 2011: Akpabio and his challenger
• Jonathan and America’s booby traps
• Yar’Adua’s passing: Unavoidable legacies
• Between Shekarau and the General
• Yar’Adua: Goodnight to a good man
• Towards political re-engineering in Edeland
• Jonathan: Learn from Lyndon Johnson
• Stanley, my cerebral classmate
• Stanley Macebuh in King’s College: An addendum
• Who do Nigerian youths look up to?
• Political betrayal in Edo State
• Of Anambra State and uncritical analysts
• Jonathan/El-Rufai: The impossible dream?
• Will Igbeke get to the Senate?
• Imbibing democratic ethos in Anambra
• Judiciary and the war on graft
• PDP: The seeds of a broken family
• Edo Speakership and the Makurdi conference
• Bishop Edmund Fitzgibbon: Missionary par excellence
• 2011: Putting Nigeria’s best foot forward
• Between Akpabio and his critics
• Birthday wish for Olu Obafemi @ 60
• Ibori and the ironies of history
• Prof Maurice Iwu - I know this man!
• Babangida’s BBC interview: Your views
• War of blood and words in Ebonyi
• The plot against Bankole
• Sokoto guber: A case for Supreme Court jurisdiction (2)
• The persecution of Pope Benedict XVI
• Sokoto guber: A case for Supreme Court jurisdiction (1)
• Readers’ viewpoints on Gaddafi & others
• Akwa Ibom: Taking nepotism as state policy
• Jonathan in America: Modesty on the international stage
• The challenge of domestic violence
• Babangida’s BBC interview
• Who is a Northerner?
• Waiting for Jonathan’s electoral reform
• Wamakko shines despite virulent opposition
• Abia 2011: Abaribe’s pipe dream
• NECO:What lies ahead?
• Analyzing Gaddafi’s deconstruction theory (2)
• Akwa Ibom and the shadow of Stalinism
• IBB’S return: Provocation or genuine transformation?
• Anambra State: Freedom at last
• Yar’Adua sightings and the new cabinet
• Faithful even in death
• 2011: Searching for a winning formula
• Can Jonathan bring good luck to pensioners?
• Okey Ndibe, others and Anambra election
• Stanley Macebuh and issues in Nigerian journalism
• Analyzing Gaddafi’s deconstruction theory (1)
• Has Journalism gone haywire
• Presidential religiosity - a high risk challenge
• Akpabio: Thinking, working and winning
• Gov Obi, Anambra needs new towns
• Mohammed Haruna is no bigot!
• Reflections on Guobadia
• Daniel: Between the cross and the glory
• Why Iwu should excuse us
• The Catholic Church under final siege
• Against truth: Radicalism in the Niger Delta
• Jonathan’s interest in Southeast security
• Ndigbo are making Onovo’s job tougher
• Anambra, before and now
• How not to defend Sanusi
• To Obi, APGA and Anambrarians
• To Obi, APGA and Anambrarians
• Nigeria as natural disaster
• Niger Delta: The war within
• Macebuh: A quintessential Nigerian
• The transformation of Akwa-Ibom State
• Soyinka – for Jonathan’s sake – on the road
• Evil reports from the heartland
• Awo at 101: Is Nigeria moving forward?
• Sokoto rescued from the precipice
• Let Dora Akunyili be
• Nigeria: I refuse to give up hope
• A new national agenda: Not Jonathan versus Yar’Adua!
• Prof. Nosa Omokaro: Tribute to an exemplary intellectual
• Turai’s betrayal of Yar’Adua’s dynasty
• Banking crisis: Sack not the answer
• Obi: Don’t be a ‘lame duck’
• EFCC and the politics of Bafarawa’s trial
• Obeying our own constitution (2)
• Ekweremadu’s rightful place in Enugu politics
• Must compromise triumph over principle?
• Diabetic kidney disease: Act now or pay later
• Jonathan: Emergence of a consensus president
• The Logistician and the Actualizer
• Dora: Go a notch higher – Resign
• Ade Komolafe saga: The perfidy of ‘truth’
• Obeying our own constitution (1)
• Nebo and UNN’s descent to the animal kingdom
• Reactions to Anambra 2010 & other articles
• Soludo: The enigma
• Hiding the President: Going too far
• Jonathan’s acting presidency and the doctrine of necessity
• Yar’Adua: Full disclosure, please
• Sanusi, Utomi and Renaissance Professionals
• Between spinning and a glorious exit
• Iwu, Carson and Afari-Gyan
• Vocational technical education and development
• The audacity of loyalty
• Nigeria’s democratic future: Raising the bar
• Samuelson Iwuoha and Keyamo’s assumptions
• FRSC’s good work on Lokoja-Okene road
• Jimoh Ibrahim: The enigma at 43
• Ngige, Soludo: Tale of two losers
• Travails of Ajaokuta Steel Company workers
• An eyewitness to Anambra election
• Yar’Adua: Presidential disability and succession
• Boosting tourism in Cross River
• INEC, PDP and the rest of us
• Parliamentary relevance and the doctrine of expediency
• Maryam and Turai: Two of a kind?
• A good example from MFM
• Anambra poll: The fortes and foibles
• Anambra poll: What went right
• Ohakim: Shedding the burden of godfathers
• Cooling tempers and righting wrongs (2)
• An eyewitness to Anambra election
• Obi’s re-election: Anambrarians have spoken
• Re: Does Jonathan have the liver?
• Soludo: Always first in his class
• Akunyili: Breaking ranks or heeding her conscience?
• For Maryam Babangida: A tribute from Ede
• History beckons on Jonathan
• How Tiger Woods got his curious stripes
• How to tackle extremism
• Cooling tempers and righting wrongs (1)
• Anambra 2010: The candidates, their chances (3)
• The evils of credit and world finance
• Anambra’s great debate
• Obi: The quintesential servant-leader
• Anambra polls: The ideal governor needed
• Feb 6: All eyes on Anambra, INEC
• Gov. Orji’s efforts on security
• Scoring goals and serving Nigeria
• Obasanjo seeks punishment from God
• Anambra 2010: The candidates, their chances (2)
• Fr. Charles Ohaeri and prophecy today
• Obasanjo’s democracy: First the fantasy, now the reality
• New vista for Imo royal fathers
• Obasanjo’s annoying confession
• Azike’s gaffe on Imo and the death penalty
• Electoral violence: Who can tame the beast? (2)
• How Nigeria lost the initiative on Mutallab
• Politicians and political stability
• Hypocrisy and the failure of U.S. diplomacy
• Anambra 2010: The candidates, their chances (1)
• Abuja bumpier than speed bumps
• Presidential health: An issue that won’t go away
• Understanding Bafarawa’s opposition politics
• Heartache of the Haiti quake
• Bayelsa: 2010 Budget and Foreign Direct Investment
• Electoral violence: Who can tame the beast? (1)
• Open letter to Umar Abdulmutallab
• America’s one-sided security ‘war’ (2)
• Attah and the national question
• Playing the ostrich with terrorism
• Was PDP’s Anambra a failed State?
• The police double murder in Ilorin
• The rot in Imo Varsity
• America’s one-sided security ‘war’ (2)
• America’s one-sided security ‘war’ (1)
• Lukman and the fruits of disobedience
• Re: Wamakko takes fight against Bafarawa to Dubai
• Farouk and the rebel in every child
• The Soludo challenge
• A thought for Umaru Abdulmutallab
• Lies and fabrications against Ohakim (2)
• New Year, new leaf?
• Lies and fabrications against Ohakim (1)
• Critical goals in the New Year
• As the year begins
• Another brand new year
• Ojukwu’s new year message to Ndi-Anambra
• Like it or not, Goodluck is president for now!
• The return of the cabals
• Anambra: Again, comes the jester
• Before we nail Tunde Bakare (1)
• Supplementary Budget: Overruling the overriders
• Anambra and other matters
• Xmas, hunger and our collective guilt
• Christmas 2009: The gloom, the cheer
• Sustaining Niger Delta peace process
• Soludo: A uniter or a divider?
• Who really is the unpatriotic citizen?
• Removing pains from the Christmas season
• Ikimi: Neither political weight nor moral credibility
• Where are the prayer warriors?
• The barrenness of our heroism
• Of rulers, the media and visions (3)
• Imo prays for Yar’Adua
• Sustaining efforts on industrial revival
• Amaechi, Wangbu and their critics
• Letter to Turai Yar’Adua: Your views
• Yar’Adua’s health and Jonathan’s dilemma
• Ohakim, beware of Nzeribe, et al
• Of rulers, the media and visions (2)
• The baboons and the rest of us
• The showdown in Dutse
• Abike’s needless bill
• Soludo & Cole's low road
• Presidential health: Issues arising
• Soludo challenges Nigerians
• Role of parks, hostels in urbanization
• Of rulers, the media and visions (1)
• Alcohol and road accidents in Nigeria
• Re: In defence and praise of Ojukwu

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