Modu Sheriff’s intransigence
THE legal jousting going on for the control of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not seem to be ending soon. Ali Modu Sheriff has locked horns with Ahmed Makarfi in a deadly game that has defied...
View ArticleCan Supreme Court disentangle Kogi paradox?
WHEN the Appeal Court returned judgement unanimously in favour of Governor Yahaya Bello on August 4, there was no rejoicing anywhere in Kogi State except inside the State House in Lokoja. In less than...
View ArticleBabangida at 75
EVENTS leading to ex-military president Ibrahim Babangida’s 75th birthday were not as controversial as his 70th. Since 2011, his annual interviews preceding his birthday celebrations have become much...
View ArticleHistory and the Ganduje/Kwankwasiyya battles
NEARLY one year of simmering conflict between Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and his mentor, ex-governor and serving senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has rubbished a proud history of...
View ArticleFr. Mbaka’s religious and political amalgam
CATHOLIC priest and founder of the Enugu-based Adoration Ministry, Ejike Mbaka, has remained undaunted in his fiery engagements with people of power despite the dreadful unease he causes the Catholic...
View ArticleNBA’s ‘rogues and vultures’
NIGERIANS want anyone who is chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to be combative, aggressive, urgent and unrelenting. This is why they took to Nuhu Ribadu, a former chairman...
View ArticlePlus ça change
THIS column assumes that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) cleared the re-launched national re-orientation campaign thematically anchored on Change Begins With Me, and that in particular President...
View ArticleKiller herdsmen as foreign terrorists
IN his Eid-el-Kabir message, the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, argued against stereotyping Fulani herdsmen, most of whom he said were peace-loving and law-abiding. “All those so-called Fulani...
View ArticleObasanjo and political culture
EVEN though he spent his eight years in government repudiating his own private counsel and knowledge of how democracy works, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo used the occasion of the visit of the...
View ArticleKogi’s judicial and election debacles
ON the surface, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has won a major judicial battle to entrench his reign after James Abiodun Faleke and other petitioners exhausted their appeals before the courts of...
View ArticleKogi election: Where are the dissenting judgements?
IT is inconceivable that given the extreme controversiality of the Kogi election petition there was no dissenting judgement. Yet, in the past five years, it is doubtful whether a more difficult and...
View ArticleFuture more uncertain than the troubled past
WERE Nigeria to be a man, he would have fewer years ahead of him than behind him. At 56, Nigeria has lived a very animated and turbulent life. Even by the world’s average life expectancy (68.5 years),...
View ArticleThinking aloud
• In his Independence Day anniversary speech, President Muhammadu Buhari, among other things, suggested it was futile for anyone or group to take on the might of the state. “A new insurgency has reared...
View ArticleEdo governorship poll: a post mortem
SHORTLY after Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner of the September 28 Edo State governorship election, Governor Adams Oshiomhole enthusiastically concluded that...
View ArticleBeyond speeches and plagiarism
WHILE giving his keynote address at the launch of the “Change Begins With Me” reorientation campaign in mid-September, President Muhammadu Buhari lifted a passage from U.S. President Barack Obama’s...
View ArticleKogi Polls: how and where the Supreme Court erred
The Supreme Court last month decided the Kogi governorship election petition in favour of Governor Yahaya Bello. The apex court may be final, says Bimbo Adewale, LL.M, but it is not infallible, quoting...
View ArticleRedeeming Aso Villa from witchcraft and other powers
IN an impassioned piece recently, former spokesman of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reuben Abati, took on the topic of witchcraft and other strange and extra-sensory perceptions hobbling the highest...
View ArticleCJN, NBA president and embattled jurists
NO scandal has so thoroughly shocked and bewildered Nigeria in recent years as the case of the seven judges against whom the secret service has launched extensive probes and a ‘sting’ operation. The...
View ArticleSegun Oni’s blather
IF there is any doubt what the President Muhammadu Buhari thinks of his leadership style in relation to the rule of law and the war against corruption, Segun Oni, Deputy National Chairman (South) of...
View ArticleWin or lose, Trump sullies America’s reputation
WIN or lose, Donald Trump, candidate of the Republican Party in this year’s presidential election, will cast a long shadow over the global reputation of the United States of America. The erratic, brash...
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