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From his confinement miles away, Nnamdi Kanu growls on the streets. His people tremble indoors. This is a bleak hour on the eastern front. The people are contending with forces that make for a Greek tragedy or a Shakespearean dilemma. It revolves around a man and a movement. Because he wants to tear out of […]
Continue ReadingMy first meeting with M.K.O. Abiola came early in my career as a reporter with the Newswatch magazine. I had come early to the office, and assistant editor Dare Babarinsa asked me to accompany him to the chief’s house for an interview. I was a society reporter covering the popular celebrity column Newsliners, and my […]
Continue ReadingThe tragedy is not just that Isa Pantami did it. It is that he will get away with it, and with Buhari at the helm. It is not that he will get away with it. He has already. The bigot with fantasies of blood and death is our minister. Live with it. He decides the […]
Continue ReadingWe did not see moments of national empathy for President Muhammadu Buhari when he fled Nigeria for his routine medical checkup. After all, it was not like in 2016 when the morbid hour threatened, or Yar’Adua 2.0. Nothing startled in our presidential comfort zone. The thing was the president was well. But what of the […]
Continue ReadingGoodluck Jonathan has always counted himself a lucky man. He became deputy governor, governor, vice president and president without ambition or prayer, without a campaign or mass appeal, without money or structure. He rode nature’s express. He floated on the wind of fate. He washed up ashore to a feast of kings. He was even […]
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