By Emmanuel Oladesu and Bisi Oladele, Ibadan The Yoruba General Assembly yesterday called for regional autonomy for the Southwest in an atmosphere of true federalism in Nigeria. The group dismissed the thinking that regional autonomy will undermine or subvert national unity, stressing that it could only solidify national cohesion and harmony. The assembly, which held […]

The net is still abuzz with Clint Eastwood’s spaced-out delivery at Romney’s convention, pardon, the Republican’s convention but there was also another apparently-spaced out speaker, Arizona’s governor, Jan Brewer who sees “illegal aliens”  – perhaps – crawling everywhere there’s are no blondes, endorsed Obama during the on-going scripted Republican convention. While GOP-ers are those always […]

raging grannies – YouTube Todd Akin is not an uncommon GOP, that group of Republicans who are quick to shout “family values”, “God and country” and other such sanctimonious preachings but have often been caught with their pants down where they shouldn’t, pardon me, including guys in a guys’ washroom some years ago. Now, it’s […]

Senate Committee Directs CBN To Suspend Introduction Of N5,000 Note-PUNCH Newspaper   NEW CURRENCY Alhaji Lamidi Sanusi is governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank.

LETTERS TO EDs., BLOGS, etcetera [Not used in chronological order although the first is the oldest.] “Soul to Soul” Concert, organized by Ghanaian Arts Council.June, 1971 EBONY:I have just finished reading your very interesting article in the June EBONY, “Soul to Soul.”  I managed a chuckle when I read the paragraph that says “…It must […]

The Standby Generation by Bernard I. Odoh Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria Submitted on 2012/08/23 at 1:03 pm AN EPISTLE FROM BYSTANDER GENERATION Freedom doesn’t come without a price! We know all the histories: Gandhi, Martin Luther king Jr., Nelson Mandela, Rawlings etc. However, Pat Utomi is still fortunate to be part of the generation […]

A variation of this story first appeared here as http://emotanafricana.com/2012/02/14/the-disappearing-naira/  early this year. It was a reproduction of an essay I had presented to readers of my Sunday weekly essays in The Comet on Sunday back in 2003, NOT The Nation on Sunday as the latter was not yet “born” back then although The Comet […]

March 31 last year was only the second day of this blog and on that day, I welcomed visitors to my new blog with one of the last essays in my column for The Nation on Sunday: http://emotanafricana.com/2011/03/31/the-politics-of-opinion-polls-in-nigerias-elections/ It was my reaction to a new thing on the Nigerian political scene, opinion polls from a […]

Tony Nicklinson, the man whose tears tore into the hearts of millions around the world last week after his plea for mercy killing was turned down by a British Court, died this morning. His life – the latter part of it – raises a question U.K. courts and/or The Parliament refused to face or answer:  […]

[After the 2012 Budget shocker that shows the militant receiving more cash (N66,176,411,902) than the whole of Nigeria’s health sector (N60,920,219,702), now we have  star /ex-militant Dokubo dismissing his $9 million annual largesse he gets as nothing unusual. TOLA.] How Jonathan spoils Niger Delta Warlords  – PM New August 22, 2012 Mr. Dokubo Asari, the […]