Mugabe’s vitriolic attack and Jonathan’s Namibian response
Robert Mugabe, the bellicose and tenacious nonagenarian President of Zimbabwe, gave Nigeria such a hefty piece of his mind during his birthday luncheon last week that many people were left nonplussed....
View ArticleTottering on the brink
President Goodluck Jonathan generates both excitement and puzzlement whenever he makes speeches. While inaugurating the national conference in Abuja last week, he was at his most robust best with this...
View ArticleThe Lamido Adamawa’s revelatory eruptions
Reactions to the shocking outburst of the Lamido Adamawa, Muhammadu Barkindo Mustafa, on the floor of the national conference have ranged from the indifferent to the hysterical, and from the liberal to...
View ArticleDanger signals in Jonathan’s conference
Last Wednesday, the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar III, in company with Muslim leaders visited President Goodluck Jonathan to complain of underrepresentation of Muslims in the composition of the...
View ArticleOsun poll may scarify Southwest politics beyond imagination
If care is not taken, the 2014 and 2015 polls in the Southwest may signpost the collapse of normal politics as we know it. Given the way former Osun State Governor Isiaka Adeleke was choked out of the...
View ArticleFayemi, Fayose, Bamidele and Ekiti poll
After what must rank as the most extraordinary feat of realpolitik ever, former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, has been made the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) standard-bearer in the June 2014...
View ArticleNHRC, Apo killings and the Nigerian Army
After what it described as extensive investigations into the killing of eight members of the National Association of Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association (NATOMORAS) by a combined team...
View ArticleBefore Fani-Kayode defects
In the political cat and mouse defection game being played by Femi Fani-Kayode, it is not known at the moment who reached out to whom – he to the president or the president to him. But when he offered...
View ArticleA week of fun
The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) Students’ Union Government (SUG) has held its annual Students’ Week, reports HAMEED MURITALA (400-Level Mass Communication). They wore different uniform with bags...
View ArticleObanikoro’s speciousness
Responding to accusation of misusing the military for political ends, the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has offered what is at best a specious explanation for his giddy actions in...
View ArticleBoko Haram, sex slaves and counterinsurgency
All those who ever secretly or openly supported Boko Haram either as a social, political, economic or sectarian revolt should feel deeply mortified by the sect’s atrocious and nihilistic...
View Article‘General’ Sambo goes to the war front
Last Wednesday, Vice President Namadi Sambo spoke of his party’s preparations for the Ekiti and Osun elections slated for June and August respectively. He is of course entitled to speak and act with as...
View ArticleChibok abductions: two weeks of national impotence
There are not many countries where over 270 teenage girls could be abducted by criminals in one fell swoop and a national emergency had not been declared, or a task force saddled with the urgent...
View ArticleAPC and 2015 presidential ticket
The leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been a little edgy over public comments on the party’s proposed presidential ticket. Citing what they believe to be feelers from party leaders,...
View ArticleFIFA: Nigeria in the eye of the storm again
During his 90th birthday luncheon in March, the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, sarcastically described Nigeria’s corruption as a reference point which his countrymen should violently repudiate....
View ArticleJonathan and 2015
Since former President Olusegun Obasanjo tamed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during his eight turbulent years in power, the party had become unrecognisable both as a party, in its fundamental...
View ArticleGovernment’s whimsical approach to counterterrorism
Either because it lacked the imaginativeness to do what is right or because it believed no abductions took place on April 15, the Jonathan presidency did not wake up to the full import of the kidnap of...
View ArticleJonathan and Chibok: the nonsense about conspiracy theories
Touched by massive and unalloyed support from more than five powerful nations, President Goodluck Jonathan has at last found his voice on the Chibok abductions. Addressing the World Economic Forum...
View ArticleState of emergency is an overrated panacea
Few expected President Jonathan not to seek an extension of the state of emergency he declared in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe a year ago. It was also always going to be...
View Article2014 not a good year for Nigerian arms
AN unwholesome impression has been created in many foreign capitals that Nigerian soldiers are afraid to engage Boko Haram militants in the ongoing war in the Northeast. While it is evident that our...
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