June 12 and Its New False Interpreters, By Louis Odion
...illogical verbiage like this will only lend credence again to the notion held by some that Kola was perhaps too consumed by the hot pursuit of a love interest in Minna all through the 90s to have a clear understanding of what otherwise transpired right under his nose. Never known…
Is Adams Oshiomhole A Secret Weapon of the PDP?, By Femi Aribisala
It is not too late. Since members of the APC are now fed up with him, it might be better for Adams Oshiomhole to apply to join the PDP. But there is no guarantee that his application will be accepted. Adams Oshiomhole may not be a card-carrying member of the…
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Second Term: A Leadership Lesson Buhari Must Learn, By SKC Ogbonnia
The solution is simple: a presidential leadership style that embodies equity, justice, prudence, and tolerance for opposing views. The fear, however, is that President Buhari may care less. Since being re-elected, the polity has been inundated with symphonies of praises by pandemic sycophants, most of who are goading him to…
Crocodile Tears For Zamfara and a Culture of Interference, By Azu Ishiekwene
Zamfara was the metaphor of APC’s catastrophic primaries in a number of states and Oshiomhole cannot pretend otherwise. In Delta, Imo, Rivers, Adamawa, Ogun and Lagos, it was a shambolic spectre of bribes, shady deals, intimidation, blackmail and rules-bending in varying degrees, with the national secretariat worsted in all outcomes.…
Unraveling Nigeria’s Jobs Crisis (1), By Rafiq Raji
43 per cent of the labour force is without a full-time job or any job at all. That is a labour crisis. And to think just about four years ago (Q4-2014), that is, relative to the most recent data of Q3-2018 that I quoted, the unemployment rate was 6 per…
No Yoruba President In Nigeria For Another 20 Years, By Femi Aribisala
...it will be the turn of a Southerner to be president again in 2023. That Southerner must, without controversy, be an Igbo man. Any right-thinking Nigerian must see that it is not only high time for this to happen, it is essential for our national integration. It will also signal…
Kano: When the Insolent Meets the Unthinkable, By Louis Odion
What then sadly makes the emerging Kano story more of a fable of villains without any hero is that Sanusi himself inadvertently dug his own political grave. The undertakers apparently arrived last week with a hurriedly contrived law creating four new districts, bringing the emirates to five in what relives…
Nigerian Politics Needs All Its Remaining Gentlemen, By ‘Tope Fasua
Nigeria needs all the Omolúàbís it can find, in the front row, immediately, steering our ship out of what seems to be a journey to self-assured destruction. Anyone who says we should jettison our politics to thugs and chancers, cheats and criminals does not have the love for humanity at…
What Is Atiku’s Real Motive With Alternative Facts?, By SKC Ogbonnia
...the 2019 general election had its share of flaws, and the constitution guarantees the right to dissent or legal redress. Yet, any specific redress or case must have a basis in fact — not mere guilty Atiku’s whole approach is fundamentally deceitful, divisive, and insensitive. It does not embody Nigerian…
Yahaya Bello: Presiding Over a Confluence of Absurdities In Kogi, By George Oyedepo
Stripped of their collective pride, it appears that most indigenes of Kogi are waiting for the legitimate opportunity to use their vote to oust Bello. Therefore, the groundswell for the removal of Bello from Lugard House, the official residence of the governor, may have started with the insistence by interested…
