On the economy (From the All Progressives Congress manifesto)
Maintain sound macro-economic policy environment, run an efficient government and preserve the independence of the Central Bank; Restore and strengthen financial confidence by putting in place a more...
View ArticleConference on the economy?
Perhaps heeding the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s call for a national conference on the economy, the Muhammadu Buhari government has promised to hold one in the coming weeks. Rather than read Prof....
View ArticleNostalgic Obasanjo badgers EFCC with Ribadu legacy
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s matchless candour came to the fore once again while celebrating his 79th birthday. In his short speech, he suggested that the Economic and Financial Crimes...
View ArticleEse, Yunusa and the vulnerable
ON the day he was arraigned in court in Bayelsa, the man accused of abducting the then 13-year-old Ese Oruru exuded calmness and confidence. No one knows whether the composure of the accused, Inuwa...
View ArticleJustice Haliru’s welcome boldness
Not since a Supreme Court justice blew his tops sometime in 2007 over ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo’s meddlesomeness (in either the Rotimi Amaechi governorship qualification case or ex-vice president...
View ArticleWhy APC lost Rivers
President Muhammadu Buhari is conscious he has approximately three years left in office. Even more, he is aware he has so far not quite justified his election or the abundant goodwill and trust reposed...
View ArticleJeyifo’s Martian and Marxist overtones
It is clear that on the matter of the rule of law and Nigerian Judiciary, there is unlikely to be a meeting point between Palladium and Biodun Jeyifo, a columnist with this newspaper and professor of...
View ArticleSaraki swimming against an impossible tide
Just as his trial for contravening some provisions of the Code of Conduct for public officers truly got underway at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) last week after months of legal obfuscation,...
View ArticleEl-Rufai needs politics, not activism
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has deliberately and complacently, if not self-righteously, marched briskly into another controversy. The politician and technocrat seems built for controversy...
View ArticleDepressing tales from Zaria judicial panel
Just as the country was grappling with the horrifying stories of mass killings and mass burial following the December 12-14 clash in Zaria, Kaduna State, between soldiers and members of the Shiite...
View ArticleAGF and Kogi conundrum
On the surface, the National Assembly does not appear to have any hidden interest in the Kogi House of Assembly stalemate, nor in Kogi as a state, irrespective of the turmoil in that burdened and...
View ArticleKachikwu’s ultimatums
Last Wednesday, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, told State House correspondents in Abuja that by this week fuel scarcity would have abated considerably. According to him,...
View ArticleStill missing the point in Zaria judicial panel
Despite Shiite misgivings about the Justice Mohammed Garba-led judicial panel probing the Zaria, Kaduna State, clash between the Army and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, it will be...
View ArticleThe futility of zoning
Next month, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be holding its national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, despite rumours the interim chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, may be angling for either...
View ArticleHerdsmen as indicators of leadership woes
IF herdsmen-farmers clashes have suddenly assumed national security concerns, it is simply because past governments treated the crisis irresponsibly and amateurishly as a law and order problem — of...
View ArticleAny hope for marriages?
THE breakdown of songstress Tiwa Savage and her manager Tunji Balogun’s marriage kept the media engrossed for the better part of two weeks. It was, however, just one more failure in a long and widening...
View ArticleHerdsmen, fuel price hike, Biafra and worst angst ever
AFTER few public officials, especially the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, had suggested that the herdsmen troubling Nigeria were of foreign origin, President Muhammadu Buhari has in...
View ArticleNigeria, corruption and British hyperbole
REACTIONS to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s execrable putdown of Nigeria as a ‘fantastically corrupt’ country, ‘probably one of the two most corrupt in the world’, have been split virtually...
View ArticleTime APC played politics
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may be forthright, full of integrity and stubborn to causes he believes in, but he is hardly the exemplar of politics the office he occupies suggests or the electoral...
View ArticlePDP moves from pragmatism to tenuous stalemate
SHORTLY before the May 21 elective convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, it was obvious the opposition party was in a deep stupor. Court orders and judgements were flying...
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