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Unlike Professor Wole Soyinka’s Idi Amin caricature, my image of President Donald Trump is very much like Robert Holt’s portrayal of Henry V111, “who started with everything and squandered it all, who had the physical and mental fortitude to endure a lifetime of gratified greed. We recognise in him an archetype, one of the champions […]
Continue ReadingIn spite of escalating insurgency across the country, no fewer than 500 senior military officers, including Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, Rear Admirals, and Air Vice Marshals, have allegedly been forced into early retirement following the changes of service chiefs under the Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu administrations. Barrage of retirements, across the Army, Air Force, and Navy […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that Boko Haram insurgents once nominated former President Muhammadu Buhari to represent them in negotiations with the federal government when his administration explored dialogue as a non-combatant approach to ending the group. He made the disclosure at the public presentation of SCARS: Nigeria’s Journey and The Boko […]
Continue ReadingSince he was defeated in the 2015 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan has remained very visible in the public eye. Moreover, his unspent second term keeps hovering over the political waters. Because Jonathan conducted himself with dignity in the aftermath of his loss — even conceding the election to Candidate Muhammadu Buhari before the results […]
Continue ReadingThe dictum, of the dead, speak no evil (de mortuis nil nisi bonum), speaks to the courtesy expected in interpersonal social relationships and hardly applies to public leaders. If we do not speak ill of brutal dead leaders, history will be written against us. Sometimes it takes the death of an influential figure for us […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian vice president and 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar; ex-Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai; and ex-Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal; have visited former President Muhammadu Buhari at his Kaduna residence. Those who also visited Buhari on Friday included the former Minister of Communications, Isa Pantami; former governor […]
Continue ReadingMinister of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has revoked lands belonging to former President, Muhammed Buhari; former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen; Speaker House of Reps, Tajudeen Abbas; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, and his wife, Regina Akume; and Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani.. 759 other prominent figures and […]
Continue ReadingNigerian elder statesman, former Commissioner for Information, and leader of the Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Clark, has alleged that former President Muhammadu Buhari, and former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami SAN, oppressed and humiliated former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen. According to Chief Clark, Buhari removed Justice […]
Continue ReadingOver 600,000 Nigerians filed for asylum in other countries between 2016 and 2023, which were years under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari was Nigerian President from 2015 to 2023 and handed over to President Bola Tinubu who was sworn in on May 29, 2023, after winning in the general elections the same […]
Continue ReadingNigeria is in dire straits. That is no longer news. It is not even news anymore that Nigerians are going through the worst economic crisis of their lives. The very lean Structural Adjustment Programme years – the SAP years – may not even compare. I have been told that the kind of desperation seen now […]
Continue ReadingThe amusing tug-of-war between the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC and the leadership of the Labour Party, LP is undoubtedly one that enamoured supporters of President Bola Tinubu must find very interesting. The reason why the BATists will be encouraging this crisis is simple: NLC and the Labour Party are potentially the remaining hindrances to the political hegemony […]
Continue Reading“The total amount of such advances outstanding shall not at any time exceed five per cent of the previous year’s actual revenue of the Federal Government” – Section 38 (2) of the CBN Act. Every Nigerian now knows that the Buhari government obtained N30 trillion under Ways and Means, W&M, from the Central Bank of […]
Continue ReadingPreparatory to his exit from power last year, President Muhammadu Buhari warned all of us to let him be after office: “Nobody should ask me to come and give any evidence in any court; otherwise whoever it is, he will be in trouble because all important things are on record.” Buhari uttered those words in […]
Continue Reading“There has not been a single area that had not been touched by the Buhari government. We have seen massive positive changes in the last eight years..Bullies who attacked governments and ‘something dropped’ will continue to antagonize Buhari borne of anger from lost opportunities. A certain Buhari “critic” who served a military governor in one […]
Continue ReadingThe APC was birthed out of Mr. Buhari’s resilient appetite for presidential power. Its victory in the 2015 presidential election satisfied that hunger and lavishly fed it for eight years. His victory then was a product of both his northern regional cultic followership and a nationwide rejection of Mr. Jonathan’s bumbling presidency. Eight years afterwards, […]
Continue ReadingAs President Bola Tinubu pretends to be providing leadership for our beleaguered country, one question remains unanswered: what to do with former President Muhammadu Buhari. In the eight years that Buhari, a putschist and former military head of state, held sway as civilian president, he destroyed the country, literally. In recent times, those who knew […]
Continue ReadingNigerians on Twitter (X) have demanded that Buhari and former Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele be imprisoned for reportedly using Nigeria’s foreign reserve secretly as collateral for loans The CBN owes JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs a combined sum of $7.5 billion as of the financial year ending December 2022. Also included […]
Continue Reading“It is quite impossible for those who want to gain power to avoid getting rid of those who are most likely to form the opposition” – Critias, 404 BC, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 196. In addition to those in opposition, power-grabbers abhor those likely to form a rival source of allegiance by the […]
Continue ReadingExactly one month out of power, former Nigeria leader Muhammadu Buhari has appeared on Twitter. He was wearing one curious item: a pen. I wondered why. Known neither as a reader nor a writer, he entered the presidency with a lot of important documents and items he needed to read or have read to him. He never […]
Continue ReadingIn a landmark judgment, Nigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about USD$5 billion Abacha loot recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari.” The court ordered the government of President Bola Tinubu to “disclose the […]
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