PDP should resist cloning APC
UNABLE to grapple with the electoral loss it suffered in 2015, and finding itself discouraged and in despair, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sometimes found it much easier to clone the ruling...
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Between Nigeria Airways and tollgates
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and his aides have in the past few weeks been talking of the pressures on the government to establish a national carrier like the defunct Nigeria Airways, and rebuild the...
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Saraki, Shettima on Jonathan
IN their brief addresses at a book presentation in Abuja two Thursdays ago, both Senate President Bukola Saraki and Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, made very unflattering remarks about...
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Scrapping SARS: between the scaffolding and the building
IN the past two weeks or so, the country has been seized by a campaign, largely triggered by the social media, calling for the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police....
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PDP right to exult
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a deeply maligned political party, both in office and now in the opposition. It was maligned for all of its 16 years in office, and deeply scorned for the five or...
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Atiku’s indecisiveness versus el-Rufai’s discourteousness
FORMER vice president Atiku Abubakar can be sometimes self-effacing despite his long history of combative politics, opinionatedness, defiance and even irreverence. On a Voice of America programme last...
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Fayose indisputably right on $1bn ECA fund
IN his argument to support the one billion dollars Excess Crude Fund (ECA) approval given to the federal government by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), the Governor of Zamfara State and chairman of...
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Agenda for 2018
BY May 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari will be three years in office. He will be left with only one year to go, more than half of which will inevitably be spent actively campaigning or machinating for...
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Father Mbaka’s controversial pronunciamentos
EJIKE Mbaka, a reverend father and Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministries in Enugu, is always scathing both when he praises and when he criticises. First he exalted former president Goodluck...
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Restructuring and the president’s speech
WHY President Muhammadu Buhari felt burdened to respond to the restructuring debate in his New Year’s Day speech will remain a mystery to the rest of the country except his speechwriters and close...
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Abati and the Jonathan paradox
IN a piece he wrote sometime before the 2015 presidential poll, but which was published only last Tuesday as an adjoining piece on his THISDAY newspaper column, Reuben Abati, former spokesman of...
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Obasanjo, seven governors and Buhari’s second term
UNTIL some two weeks ago, before the herdsmen rage exploded again upon Benue State, it was taken for granted that President Muhammadu Buhari would be seeking a second term, regardless of his age and...
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Ozekhome, free speech and Fawehinmi lecture
MIKE Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), may be used to being heckled and disparaged privately and publicly, but it is unlikely he was not rattled by the intense booing and insults he...
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Akande, presidentialism and parliamentarianism
THE debate over which is the better system of government between presidentialism and parliamentarianism is really yet to take off. It is subsumed under a far more fractious and cantankerous debate over...
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Obasanjo throws a spanner in the works
BY the end of 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election was not thought to be irredeemable, despite the horrific killings perpetrated by herdsmen in many parts of the country and the federal...
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Fed Govt can’t seem to agree on Benue massacre
WHILE Garba Shehu, a presidential spokesman, was busy taking umbrage at a newspaper columnist who he growled described the president as a murderer over the Benue crisis, and warning that such...
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Post-2019 Nigeria
DESPITE muffled warnings and apprehensions about the uncertain direction and future of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, uncertainties exacerbated by his non-performing aides and ministers, there is no...
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Ayo Adebanjo and spectre of postponed polls
AFENIFERE chieftain, lawyer and progressive politician, Ayo Adebanjo, 89, is both an advocate of restructuring and parliamentarianism. He has been admirably consistent in his struggle for a just and...
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IBB runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds
TO convey the simple message of asking President Muhammadu Buhari not to contest the 2019 presidential election, ex-military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida felt the urgency to deploy both his...
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