Al-Mustapha, Shofolahan: The wages of sin...
By WILLY EYA
Sunday, February 05, 2012

Last week, activities that characterized late Gen Sani Abacha’s military regime reverberated in Nigeria once again. The ghost of that era has refused to leave the nation’s political space. And as it appears, the latest casualties of the turbulent era turned out to be Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to Abacha and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan, former protocol officer to MKO Abiola. | Read Story

• Life in the creeks was hell Wilson, ex-militant leader
• Why I want to be Takum LG chairman –Audu
• Kabiru Sokoto’s escape: More questions than answers
• Boko Haram: Northern elders should speak up–Amb. Olusola
• We have spoken enough–Yakasai
• Subsidy removal: Jonathan shouldn’t provoke Nigerians -Archbishop Benjamin
• Subsidy removal: Can labour redeem itself?
• FG must build more refineries now –Anyadubalu
• How labour sustained the strike
• Idris has failed in Kogi –Usman
• Sylva, architect of his misfortune -Dickson
• South East governors are disadvantaged –Aja Wachukwu
• Oil subsidy: Nigerians have reasons to be afraid –Solomon
• South East governors’re disadvantaged –Aja Nwachukwu
• Oil subsidy: Jonathan and the devil’s alternative
• Jonathan betrayed Sylva –Activist
• Oil subsidy: The unending controversy
• Governors should leave local govts alone –Usman
• Something is wrong with Akume –Suswam
• UK’s empty threat on gay marriage
• PDP ‘ll capture Borno in 2015 –Shehu Birma
• Jonathan: Waking up or playing politics?
• Who wins Kogi guber race?
• Beating Sylva was cheap…We won’t allow him destroy PDP –Dickson
• National honour, national merit?
• Britain introduced rigging in Nigeria –Onukaogu, Anambra REC
• The challenges Jonathan must confront –Adejo
• Sovereign Wealth Fund: Matters arising
• Bayelsa 2012: Who wins the race?
• Bayelsa can’t afford fresh term for Sylva –Dickson, guber aspirant
• Boko Haram’ll destroy Nigeria –Durojaiye
• Lagos Council poll: A post-mortem
• Nyako can’t return–Boni Haruna
• North no more together–Bawa, ex-MILAD
• States and awaiting trial prisoners
• Question mark on Lagos council chairmen
• What Libyans would miss about Gaddafi
• Boko Haram agitation in order–Dokubo-Asari
• My plan for Edo as governor–Jacob Idinye
• How desirable is state police?
• No force can bring Boko Haram to its knees –Shehu Sani
• 2012: Battle for the soul of Bayelsa PDP
• Transformation with tears
• Too late to break Nigeria -Rev Iloh
• LP, only progressive party in Nigeria-Mimiko
• What does Boko Haram want?
• Colour as Tambuwal inaugurates committees
• Don’t grant Boko Haram amnest –Archbishop Benjamin
• Lamentations as Nigeria marks 51st anniversary
• How the North compromised Nigeria -Rev Moses Iloh
• PDP and its leaking roof in South-West
• Minimum wage:We’ll audit workforce–Suswam
• Nigeria’s 100 days of what?
• MDGs fund: Matters arising in Bayelsa
• Six-year tenure’ll stabilize Nigeria –Okoduwa
• Nothing wrong with Islamic banking -Okoronkwo
• Rise and fall of Salami
• How I joined the Army-IBB
• Privatisation probe: How far can the Senate go?
• PDP failed in Osun
• Aregbe spends three days a month in Osun
• Six-year single term: North can’t trust Jonathan–Junaidu
• Al-Mustapha needs his head examined–Lam Adesina
• Al-Mustapha’s can of worms
• Al-Mustapha insane -Falae, Fasoranti
• My experience as governor –Imoke
• New Minimum Wage - The lies, the truth
• Post election violence: Hold Buhari responsible –Ajufo
• Christy Essien-Igbokwe’s unfulfilled dreams
• Islamic bank won’t fund
• South East govs not smart–Okechukwu
• Debt Jonathan must pay–Nosa Igiebor
• Is Tambuwal new face of democracy?
• I’ll campaign for Jonathan in 2015–Tsav
• June 12, a disaster for Ndigbo–Alaefule
• ANPP ’ll rull Borno, Yobe for 40 years
• Reps and battle for positions
• FG not aware Dokubo-Asari has accepted amnesty –Kuku
• Zoning: Is South East endangered?
• Power sharing: Ndigbo were misled –Ikedife
• ACN won Benue governorship election –Unongo
• PDP behind riots in the North–Tony Momoh
• Reps: New members as beautiful brides
• Quote me! Nigeria’ll break if Jonathan runs in 2015 –Shuluwa
• Next Senate: Who wields the gavel?
• Why North is angry -CPC guber candidate
• Contenders for Bankole’s seat emerge
• Real reasons Akala sacked Alaafin
• The next House of Reps
• How governorship ‘war’ was won and lost
• …And the women lost too
• April pools: On your marks... set...
• Jonathan’s victory: Like June 12, like April 16
• Yellow card! Jonathan, INEC’ll retire godfathers –Agbakoba
• Nasarawa: Will the oasis on the savannah implode?
• April pools: On your marks... set...
• Presidential poll: Will Jega get it right?
• ‘In Benue, ACN tie brooms across streets’
• Governorship poll: Waiting for D-day
• I’m not Obasanjo’s stooge –Olurin
• Buhari/Bakare ticket: Our chance to sanitise the system
• Rivers: The gathering storm
• Amaechi’s battle to liberate Etche people
• Salami shouldn’t have said he could trust only few Justices–Itse Sagay
• New flanks in the battle for Kano
• PDP lacks basic democracy ingredients –Amb. Ogbuewu
• Kebbi: Dakingari fights on Aliero’s playground
• Rumpus over tenure adjustment
• Sylva, Alaibe go for broke
• Bayelsa: One state, two deputy governors
• Amaechi detached from grassroots –Sekibo
• April polls and rising political temperature
• Africa’s sit-tight leaders
• Enugu: Fire may be kindled in coal city
• Assets or liabilities?
• Foreigners sponsoring Boko Haram –Balewa
• Battle of Ogun: It’s survival of the ‘strongest’
• Borno ANPP: Who succeeds Gubio?
• Katsina: It’s Yar’Adua’s spirit versus Buhari
• 2011: Who is Enugu PDP guber candidate?
• Election by delegates not democratic - Izuogu
• Party primaries: Lawmakers day of long faces
• Governorship tussle reason for Ogun Assembly crisis –Gboyega Isiaka, Ogun PDP governorship candidate
• PDP primaries: Jonathan worked hard for victory –Okoroafor
• I fought LASU cultists with guns, live bullets–Prof. Abisogun Leigh, ex-VC, LASU
• Nwodo’s resignation: The untold story
• PDP primaries: Deal that saved Jonathan–Graham Douglas
• The fall and fall of Senators
• Hurricane sweeps away House members
• PDP govs with automatic tickets ’ll lose –Whiskey
• Why Mark and I can’t reconcile –Onoja
• Is this the end of a united north?
• Nothing good can come out of PDP –Akeredolu
• With corrupt Niger Delta leaders, forget resource control – Ofehe
• Gladiators to watch in 2011
• I’ll work against Jonathan -David West
• 2010 political casualties
• I can handle Tinubu –Pedro
• All the President’s men (and women)
• Uduaghan has failed Deltans – Ovie Omo Agege
• Daniel: Nigeria’s only sole administrator –Fadun
• Events that shaped 2010
• Al-Mustapha: Travails of Abacha’s CSO
• 2011: Without Jonathan, Nigeria’ll break –Alao–Akala
• Jonathan’s 1,800 campaign groups
• Sanusi was right —Senator Aminu
• I don’t know what Clark has against me – Uduaghan
• Aftermath of Osun’s loss… South West ‘landmines’ for Jonathan
• Consensus: Can Atiku fly?
• Why there’s no alternative to PDP -Onyia
• Nwodo not problem in Enugu -Ugwu
• No big deal being out of office – Bayo Ojo
• Nigeria needs peaceful revolution–David Benenoch, Presiding Bishop, The Communion Church
• Nigeria indebted to her youth-Olasunkanmi
• Amaechi not my match –Tariah
• Unmaking Uduaghan
• Bishop Mike Okonkwo warns: Expect explosion
• M’East nations want to break Nigeria – Sara-Igbe
• 2011: Fresh opportunity for opposition parties
• Yellow card for Obama
• Disinformation, intellectual laziness
• Non-Bayelsans hired to stone Gov Sylva -Egba
• 2011: I’ve been ‘zoned’ to EFCC -Adamu, former Nasarawa gov
• Ogun Assembly crisis: Another voice of Esau and hand of Jacob?
• Abuja bombing no big deal - Anyaoku
• 2011: The intrigues, power tussle in Ebonyi
• Nigeria indebted to the youth-Olasunkanmi
• No South South Gov working against Jonathan –Enogha
• 2011: Chime walking on banana peels
• We’re building a mega city of possibilities –Aleruchi Cookey-Gam, Greater Port Harcourt City Administrator
• Igbo not foolish to support Jonathan –Obinna Uzor, PDP chieftain
• Fayemi: Promise land at last
• Fayemi: Profile of a fighter
• Nigeria can never break up -Tanko Beji
• 2011:Nigeria’s facing a disaster -Ola Balogun
• Onitsha on global stage
• Nwodo chickened out on me–Kalu
• 2011: Unending drama in Bayelsa Politics
• Reps begin last lap of last session
• Rivers can afford free education, healthcare
• ACN will change Ogun for good –Prince Tejuosho
• North’s not ready for power –Senator Adeyemi
• Nigeria @ 50: Time for sober reflection
• Nigeria @ 50: We have reasons to celebrate -Okupe
• Nigeria’s downfall started under Gowon –Adamu Song
• INEC’s no congress, no candidate policy
• Kwara guber and burden of Saraki dynasty
• Yakassi voted against zoning at national confab – Nwala
• 2011: It’ll be dangerous if Nigeria doesn’t get it right – Okoh, Anglican Primate
• Why there’s no alternative to PDP -Onyia
• 2011: The die is cast
• To have credible poll, pay INEC staff well –Igini
• Election time table in order –Okwuaka
• Oshiomhole’s govt an aberration –Aimienwauu
• Governors versus Jonathan: The suspense, the intrigues
• Zoning: Ndigbo crying silently - Ikenya
• That’s crazy –Williams
• Ebonyi’s one party state – Onyike
• Jonathan has lost focus–Ndume
• S/East Summit: Another Tower of Babel
• Nigeria must observe 35% affirmative action –Onyejeocha
• 2011: Trouble looms in Nigeria
• Nwodo and Governors’ battle of wits
• PDP ticket belongs to North – Izuogu
• Noise about zoning unnecessary–Azuka
• Jega or not, 2011 election ‘ll fail –Yerima
• Jonathan represents paradigm shift –Ejinima
• Jega in eye of the storm
• 2011: APGA’s party to beat in South East – Umeh
• Credible election: Myth or reality?
• Zoning proponents have no electoral value –Sekibo
• Question mark on Jega’s initial steps
• Zoning no more fashionable –Kumalia
• 2011 zoning echoes in Ogun
• Tinubu–Fashola: Crossroads, not dead end
• Jega’s integrity ‘ll be tested when he sees money-Okunrounmu
• 2011: Those Jonathan needs
• Era of godfather gone in PDP–Nwodo
• MDGs quick win as campaign tools for 2011 election
• Troubled incumbents
• PPA won’t miss T.A. Orji, Chukwumerije–Larry Esin
• Zoning: North should not blame Jonathan
• IBB for president? God forbid
• Ebebi: How the cookie crumbled
• Why I want Senator Arise’s job –Osinkolu
• Nigeria drifting to one-party state-Rita Lori-Ogbebor
• Reps and the royal rumble
• 2011: Nigeria won’t break if Jonathan runs – Diete-Spiff
• Jonathan’s INEC of controversy
• Bayelsa: plot against Ebebi a distraction -Asara A. Asara
• Nobody can stop Jonathan in 2011 –Senator Bob
• How David Mark became a reporter
• Obasanjo wants to remain in power forever – Bakare, ex-PDP BOT member
• June 12, 1993 actors, where are they now?
• Uwai’s panel was sentimental
• Electricity bill: Waiting for President’s assent
• 2011: Time for change is now-Ikiogha
• Electoral Commission through the years
• The Yar’Adua Nigerians didn’t know
• Credible elections: Dream or reality?
• 2011: North has blown its chance -Maxi Okwu
• Ribadu’s metamorphosis
• High points of Reps
• ...Politicians and democracy dividend
• Sambo’s exit in Kaduna
• IGBEKE: How Senate succumbed to pressure
• Time for Ijaw President is now –Egba
• Democracy without democrats
• Osun: AC’s road to oblivion
• UK election: Any lessons for Nigeria?
• How PDP adopted zoning – Ogbeh
• Ogbulafor’s arraignment not good for PDP -Okwuaka
• 2011: Hurdles before Jonathan
• Presidency and politics of rotation
• 2011: God changed PDP zoning formula –Alao Akala
• Yar’Adua’s unfulfilled dreams
• Yar’Adua: A death foretold
• Yar’Adua couldn’t have lived longer – Doctors
• The untold story of Iwu’s removal
• Ogbulafor’s many ‘sins’
• Halliburton: I’m ready for prosecution –Etiebet
• Beware of Gbenga Daniel –Kaka
• Ibori’s cat and mouse game with EFCC
• Ogbulafor: Jonathan, governors begin epic battle
• Okigbo report didn’t indict IBB –Afegbua
• Don’t dismiss Ghadafi
• Bankole’s theatre of wars
• Igbinedion ruined Edo State – Olu Martins
• Impeaching Yar’Adua amounts to criminalizing illness –Mamora
• Senate without Joy Emordi
• 2011: Battle for Oyinlola’s seat begins
• Yar’Adua’s illness made Nigerians wiser —Ndoma-Egba
• Unmasking real and briefcase political parties
• Why I want to be Ekiti Senator –Alake
• Return of the musketeers
• Rumblings in Reps over capital vote
• Why I won’t select my successor – Gov Ibrahim Idris
• How Daniel lost battle in Ogun
• There’s cross-carpeting, even in U.S. –Makarfi
• Section 144 can only apply when the President dies –Ndume
• Senate takes bull by the horn
• Sylva in turbulent waters
• Militants may return to the creeks
• Jonathan must fix our electoral system – Farouk Lawan
• They want to bury Yar’Adua alive — Jokolo
• There’s no reason to celebrate – Ofehe
• Demise of a father figure
• Nigeria’s 10 most influential governors
• Governors as ‘mini’ President
• I don’t know my successor –Gov Idris
• Reverberations in Bayelsa
• Time for Jonathan to assert himself –Ogundimu
• No court can fault NASS –Odanye
• Leave OGD out of it – Sodimu
• Who is captain of this Ship?
• North not afraid of Jonathan -Mbadinuju
• 2011: Governors running for second term (1)
• Casualties of Jonathan Presidency
• NASS has no access to Yar’Adua –Solomon
• Voodoo election took place in Anambra -Ngige
• I’m now born again - Mantu
• Anambra election: The untold story
• Jonathan can’t act without letter from Yar’Adua–Ladi Williams
• Goodluck Jonathan is a coward–Evah
• Anambra election: The die is cast
• 2011 election depends on Anambra -Ben Obi
• Yar’Adua: Obasanjo knew this would happen
• How Senate nailed Yar’Adua
• Adams and Tony: How the romance collapsed
• Crises in the North: Politics or religion?
• Yar’Adua’s BBC interview was nonsense– Okupe
• 2011: Sack PDP to save democracy
• Top five contenders
• GOS: Portrait of a gentleman politician
• 2011: No party can dislodge PDP –Nweke
• Yar’Adua: 48 days of president in Diaspora
• Quote me… 1975 coup destroyed Nigeria –Asiodu
• Call for Yar’Adua to resign in bad taste–Farouk Lawan
• Soludo, no factor in Anambra politics -Obiadi
• Inside Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet
• Politicians to watch in 2010
• 2009: National Assembly year of scandals
• Courts, obstacle to electoral process – Adeyeye
• Year of political long knives
• OBJ wanted me dead-Mbadinuju
• Nigerians have lost confidence in electoral process –Daggash
• If Yar’Adua loves Nigeria, he should hand over to Jonathan –Erumaka
• What does Akinyede want from EFCC?
• Why Soludo can’t be Anambra governor –Igini
• Nigeria may break up if... –Dubem Onyia
• What does Akinyede want from EFCC?
• Ogun: Is it gateway to crises?
• Under current Electoral Act, opposition can’t win at tribunal –Ume-Ezeoke
• Oil may be Nigeria’s doom -Bolaji Rosiji
• Senate takes Constitution review to U.S
• 2001: Will Yar’Adua run or not?
• Quote me… No electoral reform, no 2011 polls –Akande
• Ibori: Let justice be done -Akpocha
• Issues on NASS supremacy war
• Kaduna 2011: Who ‘ll the cap fit?
• Who is afraid of Uwais Report?
• The NASS war for supremacy
• Fake names exist in voters’ register
• Andy Uba’s march to Golgotha
• PDP ’ll rule Osun beyond 2019 –Akinbade
• Enugu Senate retreat
• Anambra 2010: It’s now survival of the fittest
• Anambra, headache to PDP –Suswam
• Electoral reform: I have no faith in National Assembly –Lai Mohammed
• BOB and constitution amendment
• Bode George Journey to Kirikiri
• Babangida has repented -Fasehun
• Politicians, not police, rig election in Nigeria – Osayande
• PDP's insatiable thirst
• CBN has power over money supply –Amadi
  
• June 12: Truth is, military never planned to leave power
• Reps & Senators
• Gani: Story of the elephant and seven blind men
• Sack, trial of CEOs in order
• If you want to stabilize the market, don’t hound CEOs in public
• Hon Militant –Igwe
• One-party state: Who will stop PDP?
• Only the elite is pleased with Fashola
• No apologies! I’m part of MEND
• War drums over public hearing funds
• Daniel’s long trek to victory
• PDP should be restructured–Okupe
• Evah to FG
• Nigeria has achieved nothing since independence – Pastor James
• North -West 2011: The storm gathers
• Yar’Adua not sincere with Nigerians
• Nigeria has failed
• Bayero’s arrow
• Echoes of Hilary Clinton’s visit
• Democracy died in Nigeria with Abiola
• Amnesty: FG has no hidden agenda–Koripamo-Agary
• Bankole and friendship
• Second term virus spreads
• 2011: Quote me, PDP’ll fail in Lagos
• Amnesty deal
• Yar’Adua playing politics with Nigeria
• Yar’Adua vs Fashola: Who blinks?
• Re-elected governors can’t get tenure extension
• Nigeria unfair to Niger Delta
• Gov Obi can't get second term
• *See archive