Ann Curry goes while Lauer stays? That’s an unfunny joke! NBC stinks. Poor Ann Curry, a very decent and hardworking broadcast journalist was dumped like a sack of hot potato by being “promoted” down – given a fancier office but no, Ms. Curry, you won’t be anchoring TODAY SHOW any longer because we are in […]

John Roberts saves Obamacare: How does George W. Bush feel right now? Yahoo! News/CHARACTER SKETCH By Walter Shapiro [Walter Shapiro's Yahoo! News column examines what we know about the character and personalities of the 2012 candidates. Shapiro, who is covering his ninth presidential campaign, is also a special correspondent for the New Republic.]   In […]

With the calls for legal backing being given to  “office of first ladies”, I think the time has come to scrap this illegality! On March 19 this year, I posted a fifth in my “first ladies” essays for this Blog though most have been from various essays I’ve written on the subject over the years.  […]

[This was a follow-up to the brouhaha about Reuben Abati, now media adviser to Nigeria's president on allegations of receiving expensive real estate at Abuja, the country's capital purportedly as a 'thank you'.  It happened that Dr. Abati, generally a hard-hitting journalist who usually took no hostages, was very - whatchamacallit - 'very soft' with […]

Court orders Assembly to disclose lawmakers’ package by Kamarudeen Ogundele The Nation, Tuesday, June 26, 2012   A  Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Clerk of the National Assembly to disclose  details of the salary, emolument and allowances collected by members of the Senate and House of Representatives between 2007 and last year. Delivering […]

Just a week ago, this Blog carried the story of Qatar’s Ms. Malki who will be at the London Olympics to represent her country as the first female athlete.  By that seemingly simple act and despite Saudi Arabia’s vehement declaration that the idea of women’s participation in the Olympics is not for now, the flood-gate […]

2012 Olympics (2) A look back at the world of tennis & rumblings about drugs You have to live in Las Vegas, Nevada for some years to experience the kind of affection that Vegans have for one of their own and even though I’ve long moved away from the city, I’ve remained physically and emotionally […]

In a move that must have stunned even his closest supporters – at least those who really care for him and want him to succeed, President E.G. Jonathan blasted the idea of asset declaration mandated by the Nigerian Constitution as inconsequential but his actual words were worse than that and most unbecoming of a country’s […]

Just two years ago, Dan Gilbert, in a sour-grape press conference bragged that his team which Le Bron James was leaving for the Miami Heat after his contractual stay with the Cavs was over – would win an NBA crown before the Heat and James. Well, even if he made no reference to James in […]

My Dear Chief & Asiwaju, NIGERIA MUST BE RID OF CANCER-LIKE PDP! God willing, I will cast my presidential vote for retd. General Buhari and that is more than a personal quantum leap. As recently as before the 2007 (s)elections sealed whatever shot retd. General Obasanjo (rGO) might have had at statesman-hood, I had wondered […]