Politics

Washington, DC - Now, I know that the focus of this year’s meeting is the issue of health care.  And over the next few days, you’re going to be talking about spiraling costs that are straining your budgets and running up all of our deficits — costs like the nearly $150 billion a year that [...]

NIGERIA – The controversial renewal of international passports to citizens Nuhu Ribadu and Nasir el-Rufai has been fought, won and lost.
Yet, what remains is the untold story of how the complex relations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) quietly played out, compounded and later resolved the human rights [...]

WASHINGTON DC - (Message from President Obama) Although it’s Christmas Eve, I wanted to share some exciting news: The Senate just passed a historic health reform bill.
In all the back and forth, it’s easy to lose sight of what this incredible breakthrough really means. But consider this: This Christmas, there are millions of Americans without [...]

NIGERIA - With every twist and turn in the unending saga of Mr James Onanefe “Here’s-one-who-brings-wealth” Ibori, ex-governor of Delta State, it becomes clearer that the evil of “godfatherism” remains well and alive in our tattered polity. In short, we can now say that it never enjoyed greater favour in the eyes of a sitting [...]