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Tinubu and Festus Adedayo’s Bloody Night of Long knives
It is with great trepidation that I am choosing to get back into the political fray on this platform after my long Hiatus. But when duty calls, a real man or woman must answer the call. I am prepared for this contribution to evoke…
Nigeria’s image and Abba Kyari’s reinstatement
In the 2006 World Cup Final, France’s best player, Zinedine Zidane was shown a red card after headbutting Italian midfielder Marco Materazzi in the chest. It was a moment France will never forget, and Italy eventually won the…
2023 presidential poll: Tinubu and opposition within
Reports today suggested that the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has distanced itself from the presidential ambition of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Sadly, it appears we will not…
Oil refinery: Rivers State and soot pollution
On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, Governor Nyesom Wike embarked on fact-finding assessment tour of two Local Government Areas; Ikwerre and Emuoha LGAs, to see for himself, some of the locations where the operators of the infamous…
Buhari: Engaging the living and dead
The Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari last week. Two names were very prominent in the assemblage: Margery Chuba Okadigbo, the Chairman, and Constance Harry…
Tinubu’s presidency: Affliction must not rise a second time
We always knew the day would come when former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, would declare his interest in running for president. In a country where politics is about seizing power, his presidential ambition has been especially…
D-General, NDLEA and Perceptual Distortion
Apparently, there are people who are hell-bent on peddling a false binary on the arrest of popular skit maker D-General by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in the wee hours of Wednesday in…
Tinubu’s presidential ambition: Of competence and gratitude
Ever since he became the first aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Progress (APC) to inform President Muhammadu Buhari of his readiness to throw his iconic hat into the red-hot presidential ring, Nigeria’s political…
Mummy G.O and Jonathan’s rumoured return
“How far? Is it true that your boss is going back to Aso Villa? I read that some of his aides, I don’t know whether you are one of them, are advising him not to come back because you don’t trust President Muhammadu Buhari…
Buhari’s elixir – Everybody must farm to save Nigeria
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari was in his intellectual best in his latest live interview on television. He served a potpourri of explanations on his management of Nigeria. A ready, healthy Buhari answered "all questions".
Some of the…