Magu twice unlucky
THE Senate’s choreographed rejection of Ibrahim Magu, boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), last week is both a pointer to the disharmony and infighting in the Muhammadu Buhari...
View ArticleFutile scapegoating of Amnesty International
ABUJA, the federal capital, swarms with all sorts of idle nongovernmental organisations and self-appointed civil society groups, many of them mendicant and available for hire, and others almost wholly...
View ArticleAPC needs to discover democracy
IN their continuing but increasingly difficult battle to compel members of the executive arm to answer legislative summons, the senate has warned of an insidious threat to democracy. Few take the...
View Article2019: The next president
EVEN before President Muhammadu Buhari is through with his first term, and before he finds his footing or regains his composure in the middle of a debilitating illness, some politicians, opinion...
View ArticleBeyond Justice Ademola’s legal victory
DESPITE the hope the Muhammadu Buhari presidency gives of a successful anti-corruption crusade, nothing indicates that when trained historians write the history of this period, the president will...
View ArticlePDP buoyed by APC’s shortcomings
BOTH the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are fortunate to have and reinforce each other’s failings. Even though one defeated the other in...
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Surprise! Anti-corruption war yet to begin
IN a remark he made when the National Association of Law Teachers visited him last Tuesday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo gave the apocalyptic warning that Nigeria would be in trouble if the...
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The Magu rigmarole
IN any battle between the constitution and any other law, it is indisputable that the constitution has the upper hand. Part 1 of the 1999 Constitution makes this very clear in Section 1 (3). “If any...
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APC and the vanishing luxury of time
LAST Thursday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) once again cancelled a few meetings it hoped could help redirect the ruling party and impose some semblance of order. The cancellation of the National...
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SGF, NIA and a burdened presidency
THE suspension last week of both the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, is not just...
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Jonathan reminisces about 2015, Obasanjo and Buhari
APART from bemoaning how things had come to such a pass for his family under President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war, ex-president Goodluck Jonathan also managed in one fell swoop to relive his...
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PenCom leadership controversy and other incongruities
THE sack, midway into her tenure, of Chinelo Ahonu-Amazu, as Director-General of National Pension Commission (PenCom), and the repeated extension of the tenure of the permanent secretary of the...
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APC and Buhari’s health crisis
IN the coming weeks, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will continue to give the impression that its main headache as a political party is President Muhammadu Buhari’s health crisis. It will try to...
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Revisiting Gov Ladoja’s impeachment
HE who has not read the interview granted The Sun newspaper yesterday by Hazeem Gbolarumi, a former deputy governor of Oyo State, does not know just how steeply Nigeria has declined or how close the...
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Storm in Buhari’s semantic teacup
NIGERIA was in a lather last week over President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical vacation letter to the National Assembly. The letter dated May 7, 2017 was to notify the lawmakers of the president’s trip to...
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Gov Bello reinforces Kogi tragedy
WHEN the top hats of the All Progressives Congress (APC) plotted furiously to impose Yahaya Bello on Kogi State as governor in place of Abubakar Audu, the deceased winner of the 2015 governorship poll,...
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Saraki, Dogara: Where are their press conferences?
UNLIKE President Donald Trump of the United States who has no presidential bone or cell in his body to fit his vaulting but misplaced political ambition, both Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker...
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How world leaders are learning to handle Donald Trump
THE world leaders who met with Donald Trump on his Grand Tour of the Middle East and Europe over the last nine days may not have read Judah Grunstein’s essay in World Politics Review earlier this...
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Osinbajo yet to be truly tested
FOR the unspecified period Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will hold the fort for the ailing President Muhammadu Buhari, he will walk a tightrope in the most gingerly and exasperating fashion possible....
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Vindication of Saraki
SENATE President Bukola Saraki will naturally dismiss any suggestion that the not-guilty verdict returned in his favour by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), before which he was tried for false asset...
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