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How Yoruba Can Produce President In 2023 – Osinbajo
Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday declared that the outcome of the 2019 presidential election will determine if the Southwest will produce president in 2023. Osinbajo, who pleaded that Yoruba should work […]
Editorial
Jimi Agbaje: The Change Lagos Needs By Yomi Davies
Jimi Agbaje, a pharmacist and humanist in politics has remained focused and consistent in his quest to rescue Lagos State from the shackles of primitive governance and unbridled predatory politics. For some years now, he […]
Issues/Policy
Was There Ever An Era Of Benue Exceptionalism? By Ihembe Martin
My boss, dear friend and uncle, Mr Adagbo Onoja introduced a new concept in media lexicon I find useful in making a very important statement on governance in post-1999 Benue State. While analyzing the politics […]
Issues/Policy
Spiritual Versus Political Power In Our Country By Tony Afejuku
When I sat down to do this column I meant, that is, I intended to dwell on what I carried for sometime in the sub-continent of my sub-consciousness as our country’s cruelty. I was going […]
Editorial
2019: The Imperative of Continuity By Olabode Ayo-Philip
It was the legendary Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, a former Presidential candidate in the Second Republic, who made the plea for change in one of his numerous manifesto speeches: “Fellow Nigerians, the country is in a […]
Politics
Lagos 2019: Accord Gov. Candidate Steps Down As Party Adopts Agbaje | PMNews
The Lagos chapter of Accord Party has adopted the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),Mr Jimi Agbaje, for the 2019 election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the party endorsed and […]
Politics
Fashola’s Allies Endorse Agbaje As Battle To Take Lagos From APC Hots Up | TheCable
Eleven years after Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos state, and Jimi Agbaje, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 election, were locked in political rivalry, the camps of both politicians […]
Politics
Why APGA As A Political Party Must Not Die (1) By Law Mefor
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is a child of a peculiar circumstance and that peculiarity clearly reflects in its sloganeering. ‘APGA bu nke anyi’; or, ‘Nkea bu nke anyi’ has a very long history, […]
Politics
Six Reasons Why Sowore Should Be Elected As Nigeria’s Next President By Dr Malcolm Fabiyi
On February 16th, 2019, Nigerians will go to the polls to elect a new President. For 58 years, the Nigerian nation has failed to live up to its full potential. While the Nigerian people are […]
Issues/Policy
Tinubu And The Burden of History By Niran Adedokun
In today’s Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (whatever that means) is one of those who speak, and everyone listens. Arguably the most formidable […]
Editorial
Oyo 2019: Who Will Occupy Agodi? By Onabanjo Odurombi
If one tells a resident of Oyo State to go and spend some time at Agodi, they are likely to quickly retort “God forbids.” This is because there is a medium security prison at Agodi, […]
Politics
Tinubu Mocks Agbaje: Those Who Said They Wanted Freedom Should Go And Learn Vulcanising | TheCable
Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has taken a swipe at Jimi Agbaje, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for saying he wants to free Lagos. Agbaje had said he […]
News
Your Incompetence Responsible For Your Failures, Jonathan Tells Buhari By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA — The Presidency has blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan for President Muhammadu Buhari’s five month delay in forming a federal cabinet. Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, levelled the allegation during an appearance on Channels […]
News
VP debate: Obi Insists On Statistical Data, Provides Sources | Vanguard
AWKA—Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi has insisted that the statistical data he reeled out during the Saturday December 15 Vice Presidential debate were accurate, as he obtained them […]
News
Vanguard: Doyin Okupe Lists PDP’s Achievements, Asks APC To List Achievements Under PMB
Media Adviser to the Director General of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Organisation, and former aide to former President, Goodluck Jonathan; Doyin Okupe, Tuesday, reeled out PDP’s achievements and faulted claims of the ruling […]
Politics
2019: APC Targets Three Million Votes For Buhari, Sanwo-Olu In Lagos – Tinubu
The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Monday called on party members to work hard to ensure victory for the party in 2019 general elections. Mr Tinubu made the call […]
Government
The Statistics Obi ‘Got Right’ At TV Debate | TheCable
In the final months of transition from military to civil rule between 1998 and 1999, I never felt the enthusiasm that gripped most people in the country. My lethargic disposition at that time was not […]
Issues/Policy
The Atiku Dream To make Nigeria Work – Part 2 By Joe Keshi
On manufacturing, there are four action points on the what- to – do segment of which I welcome the decision to review import duty on raw materials available in the country and on imported machinery. […]
News
Free and Fair Poll: I’ll Give Atiku, Ezekwesili, Others Opportunities I Didn’t Have – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has once again promised a level playing field for all contestants into political offices in next year’s elections. Receiving a delegation at State House, Abuja, on Monday from International Republican and National […]