Why I endorse Ngige for Anambra governorship
If all the politicians in the Southeast, including the very interesting and amusing but often hyperbolic Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, Chris Ngige seems to me to be the most colourful. On Saturday, he...
View ArticleNigeria, Boko Haram and belated US declaration
Finally, the United States of America has declared the Nigerian Boko Haram Islamic sect a terrorist organisation. The US has its reasons. But it is instructive that for more than two years, Nigeria...
View ArticleThe death of Iyayi
What makes the death of Festus Iyayi deeply wounding is not simply the fact that he had an accident, as indeed anyone can have, or that he died in the almost hopeless quest of securing better...
View ArticleIGP on the G7 meeting invasion
The question the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar, was asked to respond to by the House Committee on Police Affairs was simple: who ordered the Asokoro Divisional Police Officer,...
View ArticleOduahgate, a hesitant president and Gov Amaechi
Nearly one month after President Goodluck Jonathan set up a panel to probe the scandal surrounding the two overpriced bulletproof cars allegedly bought for the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, by...
View ArticleAnambra poll: An opportunity missed
The forces malevolently interested in the November 16 Anambra governorship poll were much stronger than the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) could withstand or manage. No matter what...
View ArticleOngoing political realignment is last hope. No hyperbole
After almost 15 years of unremitting political provocation, Nigerians are about to enjoy some relief from the tedium a succession of bad or incompetent leaders have subjected them to. Kawu Baraje, the...
View ArticleASUU strike: Fed Govt, Wike lose their heads
I shudder to think what intensity of anguish Nigeria’s eminent vice-chancellors endured as they reportedly sat glumly through last Friday’s meeting with the supervising minister of education, Nyesom...
View ArticleASUU, Wike and shifting ultimatum
Convinced that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was being needlessly intransigent and combative in its strike, President Goodluck Jonathan and the supervising minister in the Ministry of...
View ArticleMandela: An excerpt from Three long goodbyes (December 30, 2012)
It was an unplanned but remarkable coincidence around the Christmas holiday period of 2012. Nelson Mandela, 94, Margaret Thatcher, 87, George H. Bush, 88 all found themselves in hospital to receive...
View ArticleEkweremadu’s dangerous naivety
Because of the urgency required to address Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s stinging heresy, I am postponing till next week my comment on the passing of the great icon, Nelson Mandela. Senator Ekweremadu is...
View ArticleMandela, leadership and Nigeria
When Winston Churchill died in 1965, some 112 world leaders or their representatives from around the globe attended his funeral. When Charles de Gaulle died in 1969, and in spite of leaving instruction...
View ArticleIyabo Obasanjo scripts even more stridently
While Nigerians were still grappling with the damning and highly censorious content of Chief Obasanjo’s letter to President Jonathan, a letter that seemed to capture the mood of the country, especially...
View ArticleSeason of venomous letters
His previous letters were not always a model of grammatical rectitude, nor even of moral and philosophical correctness, but his latest to President Goodluck Jonathan, dated December 2, but leaked to...
View ArticleJonathan’s belated anti-venom makes split deeper
In former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s blistering letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, there was no hint of the statesman or of lofty ideas; no show of stately language or of decorum; and nothing of...
View ArticleJonathan and his Afenifere allies
In December 20, Governor Olusegun Mimiko led representatives of the Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, to visit President Goodluck Jonathan. The visit came some eight or so...
View Article2014: Year of decision
There is hardly any Nigerian who does not believe that 2014 is perhaps the most fateful year in their country’s history. It is not only the 2015 elections that will be decided by this year’s events,...
View ArticleJonathan versus Sanusi: Who is advising the president?
The presidency has not denied reports that President Goodluck Jonathan wants the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to resign. Perhaps they wait to see how the kite they are...
View ArticleMark, Tambuwal and the defectors
When lawmakers in the House of Representatives began to defect to the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), it was widely expected, or perhaps speculated, that the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal,...
View ArticleAPC, al-Mustapha and the politics of inclusiveness
More than six months after the Court of Appeal in Lagos acquitted the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State Gen Sani Abacha of the murder of Kudirat Abiola, the Lagos State...
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