Nasarawa lawmakers plan legislative coup
Lawmakers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Nasarawa State House of Assembly are determined to procure the impeachment of Governor Tanko Al-Makura, even if it offends fair play, rule of law...
View ArticleThe choice before Osun
Next Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State is strictly speaking between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Any other party staking a claim to...
View Article… As Iraq unravels
A few weeks ago, in an opinion piece in the Times of London, former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, tried to exonerate the United States, Britain and their allies from blame in the Iraqi mess. This...
View ArticleObama in retreat, legacy threatened
When he assumed office in 2009, Barack Obama carried along with him into the American presidency a reputation for oratory anchored on substance and logic, and a freshness to explore alternative ways of...
View ArticleFed Govt position on Boko Haram? Why, it’s guesswork all the way
The Council of State will not be the first body to set a deadline of sorts for ending the Boko Haram menace. The police, military and President Goodluck Jonathan himself had before this latest surge of...
View ArticleOsun poll: What next for APC?
For a politician whose credibility is in doubt, and whose principles and values are in contention, the performance of Iyiola Omisore, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the recent Osun...
View ArticleSmirky Jonathan takes on conference sceptics
President Goodluck Jonathan and his supporters are wildly exultant about the outcome of the national conference. In particular, the president has been irritably unsparing of his foes, whom he mocked...
View ArticleRibadu’s defection and sameness of political parties
On the 2011 presidential election, I voted for Nuhu Ribadu, former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss and candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), even though I knew he...
View ArticleRedefining full-scale war against Boko Haram
This newspaper published a report last week of retired military officers campaigning for the declaration of a full-scale war on the Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast. A battle line must be drawn,...
View ArticleDesertion, Boko Haram: Nigeria’s fragility underscored
In 2005, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which is described as “The center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the United States Intelligence Community (IC)”, published a...
View ArticleBoko Haram, ISIS caliphates a continuation of history
he world is stupefied by the declaration of a caliphate in Iraq and Syria by extremist Sunni militants. The Islamic State (IS), as it is now called, is headed by the self-styled caliph Abu Bakr...
View Article2015: PDP’s Jonathan versus APC’s whom
There is probably no one left in Nigeria who thinks President Goodluck Jonathan will not be running for president in 2015. Not only will he run with flourish irrespective of the rigmarole enacted by...
View ArticleBode George’s hyperbole
There will be no end to the silly and infantile ascription of divinity to President Goodluck Jonathan, even from unexpected quarters. A few days ago, a mawkish and inebriated Diepreye Alamieyeseigha,...
View ArticleCivilian JTF, Boko Haram and the Michika/Madagali battles
A disturbing indication of the crisis bedeviling the Nigerian military in the ongoing war in the north-eastern part of the country is the involvement in the war of the so-called Civilian Joint Task...
View ArticleFor Benjamin Adekunle (1936-2014)
Benjamin Adekunle, more popularly known as the Black Scorpion, died yesterday at 78. In spite of the self-aggrandissing books written on the Nigerian Civil War by Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president...
View ArticleEbola: Nigeria forfeits regional leadership
In the past few decades, and particularly under the Goodluck Jonathan government, Nigeria has yielded its strategic position in regional leadership to others. Nothing exemplifies this surrender as the...
View ArticleSouth Africa, Nigeria’s $9.3m arms deal and Oritsejafor
Both the Nigerian government and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) president, Ayo Oritsejafor, have struggled to wriggle out of the scandalous arms deal involving the smuggling of $9.3m to South...
View ArticlePDP’s endorsement of Jonathan
On the day President Goodluck Jonathan was endorsed as the sole candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for next year’s presidential election, party heavyweights behaved so surreally it was...
View Article2015: time to confront our demons
Analysts can’t resist the temptation to award victory or defeat in the 2015 presidential poll to political parties and their candidates based mostly on geopolitical dynamics. It is not hard to see why....
View ArticleBoko Haram: Nigeria turns East
After complaining that Europe and the United States were unwilling to help Nigeria combat terrorism, with government apologists even suggesting that Western powers were aiding and abetting the terror...
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