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Letter to Patricia Etteh
Dear Madam Speaker, I have followed your travails in the past five weeks with keen interest and although I have been...
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Obama's Speech In Ghana: Notes For Nigeria - Reuben Abati
July 12, 2009
Yesterday was a good day for Ghana. It couldn't have been better. US President Barrack Obama stood before the Ghanaian parliament and spoke for 33 minutes, drawing rapturous applause, and we, Nigerians at home and in diaspora,...
A Judge Beaten In His Own Court - Reuben Abati
June 6, 2009
A RECENT incident reported by The Punch newspaper ought to attract public outrage but in the absence of this in a society that is already shocked beyond further shock, the implications of the developments for the health of society and its moral...
Yar'Adua's Year - By Reuben Abati
January 2, 2009
YEAR 2009 will make or mar Mr. Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's Presidency. After more than 18 months in office, the incontrovertible evidence and conclusion among Nigerians is that the Yar'adua Presidency has been slow and ineffective. It has not done...
The N100 Million Dinner For Obama - Reuben Abati
August 15, 2008
"Some skeptical people have been writing nonsense and rubbish in the newspapers that what is my business with Obama. But they are free to continue to write petitions. It is not their money that we are spending. Ask them is it your money...
June 12: Was Abiola Beaten To Death? - Reuben Abati
June 1, 2008
In less than a fortnight from now, it would be another June 12, for many Nigerians a significant date that reminds us of the Presidential election of 1993 held on the same date, and adjudged to have been a free and fair election but which the...
Ayodeji Omotade Vs. British Airways - By Reuben Abati
April 15, 2008
Readers of Omotade's story, which he tells with transparent pain and agony have been asked to send protest comments to the CEO of British Airways, amid nationalistic calls for the boycott of British Airways by Nigerian passengers. It is strange...
The Trial Of Olusegun Obasanjo - Reuben Abati
March 22, 2008
THE on-going House of Representatives probe of expenditures in the power sector during the Obasanjo years has so far resulted in mind-boggling revelations about the abuse of due process, award of contracts to non-existing companies; the use...
PDP And The Future Of Nigerian Politics - By Reuben Abati
March 7, 2008
But the PDP is also the most disorganised political party in Africa, fractious, inchoate and uninspiring. The crises that characterise Nigeria's Fourth Republic and the continuing putative nature of party politics in Nigeria's post-military...
The Police Equipment Fund Scandal - By Reuben Abati
February 3, 2008
But not knowing how to get this accepted by government, they turned to Kenny Martins, Obasanjo's former brother-in-law and a self-styled man of influence. Martins took over the matter, presented it to his in-law and pronto, a Presidential...
IBB Can't Be Serious - By Reuben Abati
January 30, 2008
Retired army General and former Nigerian dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, the man also popularly known as IBB, "evil genius", and "Maradona" granted an interview to an internet news site: The Peoples' Magazine/PointBlank News.com...
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