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I find it incredulous that a ruling government that seeks a second term in office and about which doubts have been expressed with regard to its performance, the competence of its officials and the quality of its service delivery would embark on a series of self-immolating adventures that can only further alienate it from the […]
Continue ReadingVice-President Yemi Osinbajo once recalled that “on the eve of civil rule in 1999 the Federal government had encroached into many crucial areas exclusively within the competence of states. These include planning and development control, creation of offences, revenue collection and distribution.”[1] While the courts have upheld some tenets of federalism the national assembly has […]
Continue ReadingI support a war against corruption, without minding whose ox is gored. I am on record to have strongly supported President Muhammadu Buhari when, at the beginning of his regime, he authorised the prosecution of the head of the legislature, president of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on corruption allegations, believing that we have to […]
Continue ReadingBefore every election in Nigeria, there is always something stirring up emotions, inflaming passion and pushing us, as it were, to the precipice. We are never starved of tension. The polity is always sharply and bitterly divided. The suspension of Justice Water Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by President Muhammadu Buhari and […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, the way events happen at the speed of light, in our dear beloved country Nigeria, is unbelievable. I flew out of Lagos yesterday on a few hours flight to Sierra Leone but within that twinkle of an eye, a monumental development had occurred back home. Thanks to social media, cyberspace was awash and […]
Continue ReadingAfter the disastrous outing of President Muhammadu Buhari at the televised town hall meeting last week Wednesday, his team had to come up with an explanation. According to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, what Buhari lacked in oratory skills, he made up for with his integrity and he – Osinbajo, that is – uses his professional […]
Continue Reading“Buhari has succeeded in deceiving us the first time and we will be fools to allow ourselves to be deceived the second time. Even when figures, facts and statistics are made clear to Buhari, he keeps repeating what is untrue, either because he cannot understand or for mischief purposes and that places him on the […]
Continue ReadingHow come we have so much moral deficit as a people, yet we are so religious? Why are the most religious countries in the world the poorest? Religion is one of the rocks in our pockets, the millstone on our necks and one of the reasons why we have overtaken India as the poverty capital […]
Continue ReadingSeated on a mat with their needles and threads, weaving embroideries on northern caps in production, the four young men appeared as if they had no care in the world. But the moment they started sharing with me their horrifying stories, it became clear that behind the veneer of that calmness were scars that may […]
Continue ReadingCome February 16, 2019, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s sitting president, will be faced with two choices; either to remain in Aso Rock as Nigeria’s president for the next four years or, to go back to Daura in Katsina State, and begin to tend to his herds henceforth. Whatever eventually becomes of the president’s lot, what makes […]
Continue ReadingShaka Momodu’s tirades go beyond aggressive journalism. What motivates him is something that stands on the wrong side of the pathological. He seems possessed of some irrational phobia concerning Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Judging from Momodu’s latest article, the old animus he holds against Tinubu for not inviting him to be part of his team should […]
Continue ReadingIf you are a lover of competitive democracy, you must have been worried by the pronouncements and demeanour of Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of information, on Friday. Lai, speaking in a very bitter tone, told State House correspondents that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), could spend as much […]
Continue ReadingIt has become pertinent for me to speak about my ongoing visit to the United States of America, where I have met and I am still meeting with the U.S. administration officials and business leaders. I travelled to the United States of America because I have a mission, which is to create the right economic […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, this season of jolliness and bonhomie has not been the best of times for the ruling party, APC, and certainly not for its Presidential flagbearer, President Muhammadu Buhari. It may not be unfair to say that this has been one of the worst weeks since the President returned to power on May 29, […]
Continue ReadingOn October 4, 2017, Nigerians woke up to a very shocking letter from the minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. The letter, addressed to President Buhari read in part: “In over one year of Makanti Baru’s tenure as the GMD of NNPC, no contract has been run through the NNPC board”! The […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari has finally ceded Lagos, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre, to the former governor of the state, and the self-proclaimed national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress( APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The message seems to be “do as you wish as long as you get me reelected”. Who says Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu, the […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari’s style in the war against corruption is doing more harm than good to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The beginning of this new year has already seen the APC being dazed with an outrage, and understandably so, because its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 general elections features high-profile politicians facing a […]
Continue ReadingWith the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) latching on to the trial of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen to make all manner of accusations and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) responding in kind, what is going on today is akin to what followed the suspension in 2011 by President Goodluck Jonathan […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari Permit me to begin this contribution with a few comparisons. Consider the following. Mr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was elected President of Ghana in 2016. His father Edward Akuffo-Addo, was one of Ghana’s “big six” nationalists and elderstatesmen who led and fought for Ghana’s independence from the British in 1957. He was […]
Continue ReadingAs Buhari appoints a new Inspector General of Police, below are some comments by Nigerians on Twitter: @Okorocollins1 ” Congratulations to the new IGP. Hope he brings sanity to the police force. Nigerians are watching oh.” @SopuluUmeobi “Another northerner, this President continue telling us Nigeria is not one but belongs to the north.” @Atikulated “Buhari’s […]
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