August 2011 Blog Posts (142)

There is a new game in Ogun State being perfected by a power clique. It is called ‘Distract Amosun’. It involves condemning everything and anyone that has to do with Governor Ibikunle Amosun. The game is fast becoming the fad among members of a power clique who are still suffering from dizziness resulting from the post-April poll loss.



How is the game played? Pick a member of the Amosun cabinet and pillory him/her, using false…

The division of Nigeria over time into multiple states has been informed not less by the underlying urge of the arbitrating power at each prevailing time to curry subtle political gains than by the genuine recognition of the people’s honest clamour for making the benefits of smaller states more reachable. 



These two features, to various degrees, collaborated in the creation of Anambra State. While the people indigenous to the…

Africa remains the world’s most blighted continent. The reasons are not far-fetched. The continent’s leaders, in spite of their sometimes fine ideological rhetoric, the so-called peer review mechanism, and deep-seated religiosity, are basically selfish, impetuous and unintelligent. These weaknesses have manifested in poor choices, poor understanding of democracy, messianic proclivity and brutal high-handedness. Last Friday, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the African Union (AU) Emergency…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Getty Images)

Editor's Note: Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, from which this piece is reprinted. You can read Abrams' blog Pressure Points …

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

The day had dawned like any other in Benghazi but it was a different day, the dawn of a turning point. The calendar documented it as September 1, 1969. A group of about 70 young army officers and enlisted men mostly assigned to the Signal Corps seized control of the government, swooped on the palace of King Idris 1 and abolished the Libyan monarchy. These young rebels…

Assistant Editor, Dapo Falade, chronicles the events that led to the suspension of the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, following his alleged complicity in the…