Month: October 2015

ABUJA – Vice President, Yemi Osinabjo has stated that there would be no designation as “coordinating minister of the economy”, in President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration. It will be recalled that coordinating Minister of the economy […]

The arrest and secret arraignment of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of Radio Biafra and Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, by Nigerian officials, touched off an outbreak of cathartic protests in some pockets of territory […]

Those who voted APC into power are waiting almost endlessly for the dividends of democracy. We want clean water, affordable health care, affordable power supply, security of our neighbourhood, a competitive and predictable exchange rate […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki has become a superstar of some kind. It is not the type of stardom associated with public entertainers. Saraki is in a disheartening situation, something he did not set out to […]

I’m not greatly enamoured by the style of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). I feel there’s too much hypocrisy around it. Unlike the PDP which, we all know, was ‘sharing the money’, the APC […]

The 2015 general election may have come and gone.  What remains now are the ripple effects of that election. The election was basically a two-horse thing: on the one hand was the People’s Democratic Party, […]

SINCE his ouster from power via the March 28 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan has maintained a rather low profile. He has minded his business and has said little that could even been vaguely interpreted […]

Last week in this column, entitled: “Jonathan’s fair-weather friends,” I said Dr. Reuben Abati, former spokesman for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was wrong to subscribe to the popular belief that a section of this country, specifically […]

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is in a dilemma over the imminent vacancy being created by the departure of its veteran spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Officials of the party are said to be in quandary […]