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Tinubu And Sundry Accusations At Election Cycles
Let me just raise two issues on most of the stories being circulated in the social media against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. One, why do these stories always come up during election time? Some of these…
Probing ex-CJN Tanko Mohammed
CONTRARY to some opinions that the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, should be commended for “resigning honourably” on health grounds, we urge the National Assembly to…
Nigerian politicians and pestilence of forged, missing certificates
Last week, media reports indicated that at the end of filing of personal information before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), many of Nigeria’s presidential and vice-presidential…
No ‘Guns-For-All’ In Zamfara, But …
Reacting to the heightened insecurity of lives and property in Zamfara State, the state government has asked residents to arm themselves against bandits. Zamfara State Government in a statement on…
Tinubu’s lingering certificate conundrum
The social media, where most political debates take place these days and where brickbats are exchanged between protagonists and antagonists per nanosecond, has caught fire again with reports that Asiwaju Bola…
2023: Understanding The Choice Of Okowa As Atiku’s Running Mate
Political jobbers and war hawks are back on the swing. Many people had hoped that with the choice of the debonair Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa as Wazirin Atiku Abubakar’s running mate, the…
Politics, religion and 2023
It is only natural that identity issues featuring such factors as ethnicity, religion, culture and region will always be key determinant influences in the politics of a complex, plural polity like Nigeria.…
Much ado about Bola Tinubu’s certificates
Nigeria is a big collection of human species that place abundant efforts on fallacy and fancy but little confidence on facts even when reality dictates otherwise. Ours is a country where people relish the…
2023: Will Nigerian youths deliver?
Understandably, the average Nigerian youth is tired of and frustrated by, the prostrate state of this country, which calls itself the giant of Africa. The United Nations says youth is “a period of transition…
How Will Tinubu, Atiku, Peter Obi Address Insecurity?
Nigeria is caught in a maelstrom. Ravagers roam across the land unchallenged, extracting tolls in tears and blood from citizens. They expropriate land and govern according to their lust for violence. There is…
How Bola Tinubu commissioned four teams to find his certificates
What the CIA does not know does not exist. In Luke 24:5-7, the angel said to the women who went to the tomb in search of Jesus, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?” For those looking for…
If I Were Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
Before, I didn’t think much of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu becoming President…
Voters cards will not win the 2023 elections
There is a massive movement led by the youths to register for the 2023 general elections. It is like a battle cry by those who are clearly qualified to vote in the elections rather than the underage and…
Ekweremadu And Nobody
Two photos were to be identified on the screen of the phone. There were four Nigerians at the location in Maryland, USA. Without hesitation, three of the Nigerians identified the photo of the gentleman in…
Senator Ekweremadu and ‘An Evil Soul’ called David, by Femi Fani-Kayode
I have done my research on this matter. As I said from the outset, I cannot and will not condemn my friend and brother Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his beautiful wife unless I see the evidence of their…
Understanding the Peter Obi dilemma
How time flies! I met Mr Peter Obi for the first time almost 19 years ago — in August 2003 to be specific. He had come to the THISDAY head office in Apapa, Lagos state, on a visit to Mr Olusegun Adeniyi,…
Dealing with Peter Obi’s pandemic of distortions
It is time for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party to pause and…
Naked Supreme Court dance not a bad thing after all
WHEN I first read the news in People’s Gazettethrough a link forwarded to me by a friend, I prayed that it would not be true. My prayer was in spite of the evidence to the contrary provided in…
Wike: From handmaid to rigger of history?
Between 2006 and 2007, at the tail end of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, then Governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili, was almost coasting home to victory as the Peoples Democratic…
Why Tinubu will choose a muslim running mate
There is probably no other politician in Nigeria today who recognizes the imperative of choosing a Muslim from the north of Nigeria as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election as Asiwaju Bola…
This is not how Ganduje will find redemption
The chances are that each time you hear the name of Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, what comes to mind is the 2018 video of a man pocketing bribes. In that infamous video, the man receiving wads of dollars…
PDP, Atiku and the fear of Wike
With the loss of the presidential ticket, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has suddenly become an important figure to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar. It was…
Emi lo kan: The PR strength of Tinubu’s campaign
Nigerians often roar at the utterance of audacious statements by public…
APC and the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu question
WITH the party conventions over, Nigerians now know the flagbearers of the political parties and…