Femi Adesina
We’re all under emergency rule
President Goodluck Jonathan declared State of Emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states on Tuesday. It was a direct response to the orgy of killings that had suffused the northern part of the country for some time, particularly the North-east Read More »
Okorocha’s rescue mission, 2 years after
In May 2011, after conclusion of the gubernatorial contest in Imo State, won by Owelle Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), I did a piece with the headline, ‘Imo people show the way.’ What was I saying ... Read More »
He dances like a butterfly, even at Exco meetings
Well, here is the story of a governor in Nigeria who also dances like a butterfly, only that I’m not sure he stings like a bee Read More »
I could have been a suicide bomber
I was born about five decades ago at the Catholic hospital in Osogbo, now the capital of Osun State. I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I could have been born in Damaturu, in Sokoto, or even in Baga, ... Read More »
2015: Why they won’t let Jonathan be
Let me be. Leave me to face the job at hand squarely, and stop distracting me. These were the plaintive cries of President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday, through a press statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, ... Read More »
Tambuwal 2015: What is IBB cooking?
I was at the investiture ceremony of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as Vanguard Newspaper Personality of the Year 2012 last Saturday. The colourful event held at the Expo Centre of Eko Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos Read More »
Is Easter not for resurrection again?
Nigerians joined the rest of the world to commemorate Easter last weekend, rounding off the celebration on Monday Read More »
Re: Between mercy and judgment
The pardon granted former Bayelsa State governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha by President Goodluck Jonathan elicited different kinds of emotions in Nigerians. Below are reactions to last week’s piece by FEMI ADESINA, which came under the headline ‘Between mercy and judgment: ... Read More »
Between mercy and judgment
Before the gruesome carnage in Kano this week, in which suicide bombers killed dozens of people at a commercial motor park, the national talking point had been the presidential pardon granted last week to some people, particularly former Bayelsa State ... Read More »
2015 and the march against Amaechi
If you’ve had a public spat with a formidable woman like Dame Patience Jonathan, you’ve got to constantly watch your back, and not take anything for granted, irrespective of the public show of reconciliation that may have followed Read More »
