APC’s teething and identity battles
In a day or two, it will be clear how successfully the two-year-old All Progressives Congress (APC) has fought the many battles confronting it without fissuring dangerously or setting the stage for...
View ArticleDebating Buhari’s speed
Barely one week into President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency, Nigerians have become embroiled in a debate over whether he is cautiously forging ahead or making haste slowly. They want to see action,...
View ArticleSaraki and APC’s seething cauldron
It was clear from the beginning that the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders were deeply suspicious of Senator Bukola Saraki, and were unwilling to have him elected as the Senate President of the...
View ArticleSaraki’s consolidation trips
Among the few trips Senate President Bukola Saraki has undertaken since he emerged president of the senate, his visits to former military head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and former president,...
View ArticleTime for Buhari to inspire and set the tone
While addressing Nigerians in South Africa during his last African Union (AU) trip, President Buhari wondered why Nigerians were so anxious to see him appoint his ministers. He would do so eventually,...
View ArticleAPC’s unsteady gait
Of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is honest enough to admit it, the party will confess it is reeling under the weight of two major problems, the resolution of which will determine its future and...
View ArticleAPC lucky to face crises early
Last Friday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) merely attempted to paper over the cracks in the party. But Nigerians want the ruling party and their...
View ArticleBuhari’s superfluous ministers and national rebirth
The mild and sarcastic debate about what Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari gained from his July 19-22 visit to the United States will continue for a little longer. It is in the nature of politics...
View ArticleNovember deadline mystifies Boko Haram
While decorating the new service chiefs on Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari charged the nation’s armed forces to bring the Boko Haram menace to an end in three months. Militarily speaking, and...
View ArticleBuhari faces dilemma in anti-corruption war
President Muhammadu Buhari must be gradually facing up to the reality and complexity of ruling a country in a democracy, where things are not always what they seem. If he thought he had the liberty and...
View ArticleBishop Kukah’s firestorm
No matter how much gloss anyone would like to put on the recent views of Bishop Matthew Kukah, especially his opinion on former president Goodluck Jonathan, it is undeniable that he has not shown...
View ArticleBelonging to everybody and to nobody. How quaint!
The most memorable part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugural address was his assertion that he belonged to everybody and belonged to nobody. It was interpreted that he had sent signals he would...
View ArticleBuhari’s puzzling appointments
President Muhammadu Buhari’s seemingly grudging gesture in appointing a few southerners into the presidency and security staff can neither escape attention nor censure. Of the 12 or 13 appointments so...
View ArticleBuhari needs new ethos and paradigm
In its response to accusations of sectionalism and even nepotism in determining federal appointments so far, the Buhari presidency has confidently indicated that balance would soon be restored, itself...
View ArticleEurope’s migrant refugee crisis: Re-enacting Mfecane
In his controversial analyses of African affairs, former president Olusegun Obasanjo often puts on scholarly airs on account of his experience in government. He had supervised an activist foreign...
View ArticleBuhari presidency more exciting than first thought
Senate President Bukola Saraki will be the first person to tell anyone who accuses the Buhari presidency of dullness of making a terrible mistake. He should know. Since Dr Saraki’s enthronement in...
View ArticleKogi 2015: Wada versus Audu
Barring any legal upset, Kogi State will be electing its next governor in November. The choice is between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Idris Wada, who is the current governor, and the All...
View ArticleStill on Kogi election
Many Kogites and non-Kogites who reacted to this column’s conclusions on the November governorship poll in Kogi State are in a quandary whom to support. While they admit that the Peoples Democratic...
View ArticleIf Arase won’t do something about the police…
Nigeria is daily inundated with stories of police malfeasance, of so-called accidental discharge, extrajudicial murder, trigger-happy shootings and attendant cover-ups, torture, human rights abuse, and...
View ArticlePDP gets a head start on 2019 race
After inquiring into why it lost the last election disastrously, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) post-election review committee is reported to have zoned the presidential ticket to the North. It...
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