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Plato’s nightmare: Between my disenchantment with Buhari and a hopeful redemption from Tinubu
“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike” — Plato “Liberty cannot be preserved without a…
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: FG, states’ response disgraceful
INSUFFERABLY notorious for missing set deadlines, the sluggish pace of work on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway is exacting a heavy toll on road users and businesses. Since reconstruction…
‘How Aguiyi-Ironsi killed regional police in 1966’
Eric Teniola, a former Director in the Presidency has revealed how first Nigeria military ruler, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, killed the regional police on assumption of power on January 1, 1966…
The menace of misinformation and disinformation
Out of the blue, I was inducted into the dreaded hall of fame for victims of disinformation last week. An article I did not write and had not even read was attributed to me. A dozen…
Enough Of IGP, Police Commission Power Tussle
The power tussle between the Police Service Commission (PSC) led by a former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Musliu Smirth, and the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, over the…
Senator Shettima: How he is restructuring his feet
Senator Kashim Shettima, the All Progressives Congress, APC vice-presidential candidate has lately been the object of much joke over his dressing gaffe at the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA…
Our prodigal leaders and the London Jamboree
Our politicians are incurable. The Obudu ranch is rotting away. They have made it look like a white elephant with their prodigal foreign appetites. The naira is perishing. They seem unperturbed,…
The war between Tompolo and Penawou
THREE times the cock has just crowed signalling a stainless dawn. In this stainless dawn that is not befogged or fogbound, two great personalities can be seen without being silhouetted. They are High Chief Ekpemupolo Oweizide Government…
Party leadership: A curious look at the hand behind APC’s wheel
The implosion. The biggest political upset of the decade is, perhaps, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) self-deracination. Proverbially, the party fetched the coal for its own…
Kashim Shettima: The starboy of the NBA show
If someone had landed in Nigeria from Mars on Monday and read treads on Twitter Nigeria, he would have thought Senator Kashim Shettima was one tasteless, uneducated Nigerian. But the man so…
Electricity Blackout, Act Of Sabotage
The ghost of the hasty and shoddy privatization exercise of the electricity sector in 2013 emerged from last week to cause a total blackout across Nigeria on August 17, 2022. As a way of…
Are Peter Obi’s supporters losing oxygen?
Like the breaking of every phantasmagoria, the futility of chasing a will-o-the-wisp soon becomes clear. It may take a while, but even the fog of illusion gives way for common sense when the blistering…
Soyinka sails Pyrates out of Emi lokan sea
During their 70th anniversary celebration that lasted from Friday to Sunday, penultimate weekend, members of the National Association of Seadogs aka Pyrates Confraternity converged on Ikeja, the…
2023: Will Tinubu Swim Through The Tide Of Same Faith Ticket?
With historical perspective of same faith presidential joint ticket in Nigeria, Nsikak Ekanem raises posers on possibility or impossibility of the All Progressives Congress (APC)…
The Igbo, IPOB, Peter Obi and 2023
GIVEN the strong feelings evoked in the South-East by the perceived imperative of a President of Igbo extraction succeeding President Muhmmadu Buhari in 2023, it is understandable that the…
Ogun Politics, Amosun And The Abuse Of Power
You do not have to be a literary mind to realise that power is a special kind of wine. It intoxicates and must be tempered by trials, tests and the keeping of focus. Raw power, unmediated by…
When the journalist becomes the news: The case of Reuben Abati and Rufai Oseni
With the traffic infraction saga involving Arise Morning Show co-host, Rufai Oseni being resolved, it is pertinent to look back and point out valuable lessons that need to be learned. As the…
RE: Wike, a Governor Possessed By Spirit of Flyovers
Our attention was drawn to an article titled: “Wike, a Governor Possessed By Spirit of Flyovers” published by Yemi Adebowale. It was in his ‘RingTrue’ column of the ThisDay Newspaper of August…
Ramaphosa’s Farmgate
By the admission of the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa himself, the governing African National Congress (ANC) is at its weakest since it took over power from the apartheid minority…