When Muhammadu Buhari overthrew a democratically-elected government in a coup d”etat in 1983, Sani Abacha declared in his infamous radio broadcast: “(Our) health services are in shambles as our hospitals are reduced to mere consulting […]
The Caucasians in their intellectual arrogance widely opined that Africa had no history prior to their coming. African historians and anthropologists took this bare-faced affront as a daunting challenge and showed that indeed Africa had […]
The world’s most successful social reformer Mr. Deng Xiaoping, who took his country from the backwater of social chaos and economic meltdown to steady modernization and unprecedented prosperity actually assumed preemient leadership position of the […]
THE issue of deployment of troops for elections in Nigeria has been an enduring dialectic in the annals of our democracy. Many chroniclers of the crises that led to the truncation of our democracy in […]
Times are so frenetically awash with political activities of a sort never before known. Of all the Heads of State any nation has ever had, none epitomizes the true state of his country as Obasanjo […]
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has challenged the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, to present the receipt of the make-up tax the politician is supposed to […]
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 104). Seldom does a commentator find himself in a position of the defender of a big […]
When in late 2013, Lamido Sanusi, then Central Bank governor wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan asserting that about $20 billion was not accounted for by NNPC, many Nigerians dismissed the claim with a wave of […]
A MULTI-COLOURED full page advert in a national newspaper of Monday February 23 titled ‘Let My Experience Work For You’ showed the CV and work experience of APC governorship candidate Akin Ambode in various colours […]
FEW people are likely to be surprised that the Jonathan administration has not reacted to the recording released by Sahara Reporters in which a junior defence minister claims that he was mandated by the president […]
I AM deeply concerned and flummoxed, as are most decent Nigerians, about the present political quagmire we find ourselves in, against a backdrop of the collapse or near collapse of governmental structures and services, widespread […]
I MUST give kudos to the progenitors of the peace accord between President Jonathan and General Buhari for this 2015 general election into the office of the president, and now being emulated and adopted at […]
TWO weeks ago, I received from a Nigerian who identified himself as Professor EJC Nwana, a letter in which he told me he was “thoroughly worried that your hatred of President Jonathan has been elevated […]
The Naira on Friday weakened further as it sold at N224 against the dollar at the Bureau de Change (BDC). NAN reports that the Naira also exchanged against the dollar at N220 at the black […]
The APC Candidate has been on a tour of the UK, chaperoned by his political campaign advisers Dr. Kayode Fayemi and Mr. Chibuike Amaechi. Two things are rather immediately clear from Buhari’s UK tours: one, […]
The long-awaited report of the forensic audit on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which the Federal Government hired PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to conduct has finally been released. As with almost everything in these political times, […]
Last week’s column, The forcesagainst Buhari, received diverse feedback. I decided to share some of the reactions this week. Brandon Landry Excellent article! Bottom line message is clear: Nigerians must seize the destiny of Nigeria […]
The legendary sociologist scholar, Max Weber defined a successful state as ‘one that could be said to succeed if it maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force’. Another intellectual giant, Robert Bates […]
One drawback critics of General Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian version of Abraham Lincoln have pointed out is his lack of international appeal. He pales in significance when compared with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The latter […]
From PETRUS OBI, THE SUN In his interview recently the Secretary General of the Igbo apex body Ohanaeze Ndigbo Dr. Joe Nwaorgu dismissed insinuations of a division in the Igbo body, describing the caretaker committee […]
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