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ATIKUlating A National Irritant
About four years ago I was at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja. Early afternoon, my partner wanted to get her hair done in the saloon and asked me to come with her. I didn’t want to go but I went only after I saw an opportunity therein to check out the..
Nigerian ex-president fails to break Ivorian political impasse
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo left Cote d'Ivoire early Monday after two days of mediation as incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo still refused to cede power since the Nov. 28 presidential vote
Nigeria's Obasanjo Meets With Ivory Coast Rivals
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was shuttling between meetings Sunday with the country's defiant president who refuses to cede power and the internationally recognized winner in the latest effort to resolve the post election crisis.
Should Goodluck lose his goodwill?
“Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual – the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to..
OBJ joins bid to pick Nigeria’s new vice president
The battle to identify a successor to Nigeria’s Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has begun and is generating heavy steam.
Obasanjo Set Up Bode George - Says Osoba
Obasanjo to blame for Bode George’s woes –Osoba Former Ogun State governor, Olusegun Osoba, has attributed the present travail of the former chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Bode George, to Yar’Adua’s predecessor, Chief..
PDP crises deepen in Anambra, Ogun
NO end seems in sight to various crises rocking some chapters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the divisions in its Anambra and Ogun states’ chapters worsened yesterday.
Liberia’s Taylor: I’m a peacemaker not a monster
Ending three years of silence, former Liberian President Charles Taylor began building his defense against war crimes charges Tuesday, portraying himself as a peacemaker rather than the cannibalistic warlord described by prosecutors.
