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Anyone who has watched Bola Ahmed Tinubu closely and dispassionately can’t help but notice that the man is not well. He is a walking psychedelic calamity. His endless verbal miscues and nonverbal cues constantly conspire to construct the profile of a man who is battling a troubling internal turmoil, who is held hostage by disablingly […]
Continue Reading“In Japan, a corrupt person kills himself. In China, they will kill him. In Europe they will jail him. In Africa, he will present himself for election.” – Anonymous Former President Olusegun Obasanjo once said that Nigeria is the only country where if you catch a thief red-handed, the thief will be the first to […]
Continue ReadingWhat could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that, “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race […]
Continue ReadingThe wedding of Aliyu, son of former Nigerian vice president, Atiku Abubakar, and Fatima, daughter of former EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, has taken place in Asokoro, Abuja, Nigeria. Very important personalities at the wedding include Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor Aminu Tambuwal and many others. See more photos below: […]
Continue ReadingProlific writer, famous critic and author, Dr Femi Aribisala has mocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) over its recent leadership crisis. Aribisala, on Friday afternoon, took a swipe at a national leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the suspended national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, tagging them, ‘Internally displaced Politicians’ following the dissolution of the […]
Continue ReadingA huge outrage is currently on stage in Minneapolis, USA, where Derek Chauvin, a chauvinist, rammed his knee down a throat and inflicted a large damage to America’s formidable image of a quintessential society resplendent in racial diversity. Chauvin didn’t kneel down in prayer. He, probably, was too profane to pray. He, absolutely, was blind […]
Continue ReadingA journalist, Ayoola Babalola, has been allegedly arrested by officials of the Department of State Services, for allegedly publishing articles criticising President Buhari’s administration and also the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu as well as the EFCC. Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, who is the legal representative of Babalola, made […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Saturday in Lagos graced the 80th birthday celebration of Chief Rasaq Okoya, founder of Eleganza group of companies. Other notable Nigerians that attended the event were Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Minister of Information […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that he will throw his weight behind the controversial Hate Speech Bill if the provisions are made to function retroactively and the first victims to be sanctioned are President Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, Nasir El-Rufai, Festus Keyamo and Rotimi Amaechi for the hateful words they […]
Continue ReadingWhat is going on here? This photograph showing Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Toyin-Ojora Saraki and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki needs a caption. What could Toyin-Ojora Saraki be saying to Asiwaju? Blaming him for Otoge Revolution that swept her husband out of the current Kwara politics and the senate? Was Asiwaju saying […]
Continue ReadingOndo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and his wife, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, gave out their daughter’s hand in marriage on Saturday September 14. The wedding ceremony was held at Akeredolu’s residence in Owo, Ondo state, Nigeria. APC National leader, Bola Tinubu; ex-Osun state governor and APC interim national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; former governors of Ogun and […]
Continue ReadingPolitical bigwigs from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were on Monday absent from the 80th birthday celebration of the first National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, held in Benin, Edo State, Nigeria. On the contrary, the National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, and the Edo State […]
Continue ReadingThe first civilian governor of Lagos State, a.k.a baba kekere or action governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande clocked 90 years on Tuesday. The Lagos State Government in conjunction with the Jakande family organised a birthday party reception to honour the elder statesman at the Haven Event Centre, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; APC […]
Continue ReadingThe burial rites for late Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Chairman of Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti began on Friday with a commendation and night of tributes in her honour at Harbour Point, Wilmot Road, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos. Mrs Olakunrin was shot and killed by masked gunmen in […]
Continue ReadingThis is, undoubtedly, a difficult time for Afenifere leader, Baba Reuben Fasoranti. He has suffered a grievous loss of his daughter, Funke Olakunrin, in untoward circumstances. The loss of one’s child is a painful and traumatic experience. My prayer for him and his family is to find strength at this trying time. Now, the death […]
Continue ReadingContrary to the official position that a former governor of Lagos State and one of the national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, was absent at last week’s visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Lagos, because he was out of the country, THISDAY gathered that Tinubu deliberately stayed away, because he had […]
Continue ReadingNational Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said that the trending campaign slogan of ‘O to gee‘ (enough is enough) employed by Kwara State residents as their 2019 general elections slogan, is different from ‘O to’pe’ (it is praise-worthy) which subsists in Lagos. Tinubu made the comment during an interactive session with […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, despite the open and brazen braggadocious posturings of the ruling party, things seem to be fast falling apart within the All People’s Congress (APC). The arrogance of power probably must have misled some of the powerful gladiators in the party that they are invincible and infallible. But unwarranted arrogance and pride go forth […]
Continue ReadingWith the campaigns for the 2019 general elections about to kick off, one salient issue bothering Nigerians is if Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, can muster enough clout to influence the South West geo-political zone to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari as was the case in the 2015 election. Already, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister for Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Thursday, lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari. He also knocked former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu Fani-Kayode mocked the duo on Twitter, saying both deserved applause for bringing the country to its knees. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain restated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has failed Nigerians. […]
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