Upping the ante in IPOB/MASSOB crisis
After the death of nine people, five of whom were members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu, one of their leaders, the police have begun to talk tough. Most...
View ArticleBetrayal of Kogi
As this column was being written, Kogi State was heading to 91 polling units in 18 local government areas to vote in the December 5 controversial supplementary election ordered by a vacillating...
View ArticleAtmosphere of tentativeness in Kogi
Unfazed by the deliberate convolution scripted into the recent Kogi governorship election, Abiodun Faleke, running mate to the deceased All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Audu, has stoically...
View ArticleINEC’s first two elections
It is not a flattering recommendation that the first two elections conducted by INEC’s new management floundered very badly, caught as they were in the morass of violence, questionable calls, and...
View ArticleAPC’s limited options
By 2019, a plebiscite will decide just how well and how far the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has interpreted and approximated the yearnings of those who voted them into office. If the party...
View ArticleDasukigate and controversial media payments
Of all the fiery elements of Dasukigate, the scandalous arms deal and financial bazaar superintended but not necessarily wholly inspired by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), three...
View ArticlePortents of Zaria killings
If spokesmen of the Nigerian Army are credible, fewer than 10 people died in the skirmishes between the army and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, otherwise more popularly called Shi’ites, in the...
View ArticleKogi’s sponsored elders
In Kogi State, they are not content with letting bad enough alone. After nurturing what they like to happily describe as an inconclusive November 21 governorship election, and exhibiting betrayal and...
View ArticlePDP assails Buhari’s curious budget
With declining oil production, low and still falling crude oil prices, fewer buyers for Nigeria’s oil, and a determination to borrow almost two trillion naira of the six trillion naira it has budgeted...
View ArticleZaria killings and el-Rufai’s impetuousness
In their response to the bloody Shi’ites/Army clash in Zaria on December 12, the Northern Governors’ Forum led by Borno State governor Kashim Settima expressed confidence in the way Governor Nasir...
View ArticleIncredibly revelatory media chat
If eloquence or elocution was all that is needed to prove one’s bona fides or demonstrate competence, President Muhammadu Buhari would prove a woeful failure. In his maiden media chat last week, he...
View ArticleDispirited PDP and opposition crisis
With dozens of its chieftains arrested or questioned by anti-graft agencies and the secret service, and many more being readied for scalding or sundry and subtle judicial pressures, the Peoples...
View ArticlePolemics of 1966 coup, civil war and current agitations
January 15, 1966 will remain a watershed in Nigerian history, even if the lessons it teaches fall on deaf ears. Five majors had on that day executed a coup planned to, in the opinion of the coupists,...
View ArticleIncreasingly controversial anti-graft war
The facts are truly and depressingly worrisome. First was the $2.1bn arms scandal allegedly directed by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), which has sucked in so many people,...
View ArticleKogi bites the wrong bullet on inauguration
The headline of this piece is used guardedly in the sense that the ordinary Kogite is understandably not part of the charade of Wednesday’s inauguration of Yahaya Bello as the new Governor of Kogi...
View ArticleAbubakar Malami’s inquisitorial tendency
Given the terrible harm and retrogression corruption has brought upon Nigeria, it is no surprise that President Muhammadu Buhari is fixated on combating it, almost to the large scale exclusion of other...
View ArticleLai Mohammed takes umbrage, shocks the public
The standard reply to every critic of the Buhari presidency’s method of fighting corruption is that corruption is fighting back. The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, reiterated this fact last...
View ArticleKogi makes wrong history
Less than two weeks ago, Kogi State bit the wrong bullet when, with the help of the electoral body and other political titans, they prepared to inaugurate Yahaya Bello as the governor. Apparently,...
View ArticleRule of law’s many controversies
This piece is partly a response to Biodun Jeyifo’s enjoyable contribution to the debate on President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war, especially the methods by which the All Progressives Congress...
View ArticleFed Govt and the ‘sacked’ vice chancellors
While the furore surrounding the 2016 federal budget was yet to abate, another perhaps more embarrassing one flared about two weeks ago with the report of the removal of 13 federal university...
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