of the political harlots and butterflies that Baba Kadiri has been talking about. When it comes to that special category of latter day Nigerian saints and politicians, one can'

result of political, economic and military oppression, I'm sure that you too would have nothing against the idea of liberation, or have anything against the idea that there's

NIGERIA'S POLITICAL HARLOTS By S. KADIRI I feel disgusted when known professional harlots in Nigeria's politics brazenly present themselves to Nigerians as virgins. I

, the political harlots, hypocrites and opportunists) as was to be expected, an honourable straight-talking Nigerian such as Ibrahim Jibrin was gonna to take the bull by the horns

the husband's political jive. In Sierra Leone Krio, such a one is referred to as “ woman lappa”. One morning in Buguma, in early 1983 my friend Mr Long-John who was the Chairman of

all other political parties in Nigeria, its soul is strongly entrenched in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria where it is stipulated in Section 65:2g that no Nigerian can contest for

millions in political and economic logjams. The best is for thinkers to stay principled and see beyond their pockets. The attack of Adesina on Gambari during the Yar'adua era was

millions in political and economic logjams. The best is for thinkers to stay principled and see beyond their pockets. The attack of Adesina on Gambari during the Yar'adua era was

Baba Kadiri: Let me once again commend your unstinting efforts at getting to the roots of why we are where we are today. You left no one in doubt that

literacy and political consciousness is high. The electoral system in Nigeria is a farce. In 2000, the sum of $240 million was appropriated to procure Identity cards to Nigerians.

of losing political grip, the South East Governors proclaimed IPOB banned in the five states. Igbo exist in large numbers in almost all of the 36 states, which limits the scope of IPOB

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section about political party division, but that is a question that a court of law would have to determine. For now here are the issues as I see them: it is clear that that provision concerns

Chief Tola Adeniyi's piece on Achebe leaves a sour taste in the mouth. What would otherwise have been a fine tribute to a truly deserving giant has

bastard and political >megalomaniac ever in Yoruba land in person of Mathew Olusegun Okikiolapo >Obasanjo, in company of some gready and blindly ambitious ones among us,also

Daniel Elombah: Your enquiry was NOT as simple as you make it out. It was LOADED with bias, because

professionals or harlots of the trade? Are they for the trade or trading as professionals for the dirty prize? As the poet Lord Byron wrote, there is always a market for impostors. Stories

pulpits like harlots on the curb. Gone are the days when religious teachings were used as leverage for morality—when men of God were pious, and their followers went to church for spiritual

, and political imbalances borne of European calamity and criminality. Qansy Salako speaks of "personal responsibility" on the part of Africans. I agree: continually