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Can President Buhari’s 12 Million Votes Be Transferable In The 2023 Elections?
As the clock winds down on President Buhari’s tenure, one of the underlying questions and expectations is what will happen to the 12 million guaranteed votes that the president has consistently garnered in all his election…
Peter Obi’s Supporters Are De-Marketing Him
Ndi Igbo. We know how to jinx a good thing. Perhaps, it is our seeming indomitability, boisterousness and Thanos-will that seduce us to think everyone must believe in what we believe in and must act and think…
Osinbajo: More than qualified
The insistent return to the same subject matter by those bent on undermining the vice president’s candidacy for the presidency on the APC ticket smacks of desperation and provides evidence of the emptiness of…
Why Godwin Emefiele should have been in prison
In November 2017, it emerged that the Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, had significant interests in an off-shore company registered in Bermuda, which held an account with UBS in London. UBS is a…
Becoming Nigeria’s next president looks like lottery
The current presidential election process in Nigeria, the sixth, since the return to democratic rule in 1999, is like no other before it. It is the most contested, the most controversial, and the most…
SHUAIBU IBRAHIM AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN NYSC
Wikipedia describes transformational leadership as a theory of leadership where a leader works with teams…
IPOB’s congregation of crocodiles
THE human experience of change is one conceived and consummated in the crucible of conflict. Change has hardly ever happened without some form of conflict, whether it rages within humans and systems or spills outside…
Much ado about Osinbajo’s presidency
Time is a great healer. This is apt in describing the settling dust generated by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s triumphant entry into the nation’s presidential race. It has remained an issue which gained traction within…
The cat-and-mouse game over zoning
Where should the next president come from? In the unwritten code that guides matters of national politics in Nigeria, the answer is obvious. A northerner will have been president for eight years by 2023 and it…
Tinubu vs Osinbajo: An intriguing south-west political derby
As Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Osinbanjo prepare to go head to head in the contest to decide who takes the presidential nomination of the All Progressive Congress Party (APC), the question that…
They claim Buhari has done nothing. UN scribe, Antonio Gutteres, says not so
The Yoruba people of South-west Nigeria have a saying: when a child rejects instructions at home, it is from outside that such child is trained. And that was exactly what happened on Tuesday and Wednesday, this…
Tinubu may not be running
It is a kaleidoscope – the pattern keeps mutating. Nigeria’s politics should be among the most unpredictable, intriguing and exhilarating. There are more smokescreens than actual smoke; more pawns than real…
Wike: What’s Wrong With The Igbo?
I, ordinarily, don’t dabble into the shenanigans of politicians. But three things –…
Tinubu’s desperation and Omatseye’s dirty fight
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is steadily carrying out his threat to “fight dirty” and his targets have been well marked out; President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He has deployed most of the…
2023 presidency: Jonathan should not disgrace himself
One news story video that was embarrassing to watch last week was that of former president of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, speaking to an obviously rented crowd that “stormed” his Abuja office to “compel” him…
Wanted: A president to solve the ASUU puzzle
Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has a dream: that one day, Nigerian universities will be able to compete with the best in the world; that our universities…
Nasir El-Rufai’s succession plan: Who is the chosen one
When former Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, said that campaign is done in poetry but governance in prose, he must have been thinking of the hazy days of slogans on steroids which fills supporters with false notion…
Tinubu And The Limits Of Ambition
Gozie Irogboli contends that Bola Tinubu has nothing new to offer the nation As the countdown to the 2023 general election began following the release of timetable by INEC, there is increase in the intensity…
U.S. Think Tanks obsessed with doomsday prediction for Nigeria
In 2005, a US National Intelligence Council paper “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” floated the idea there could be a military coup in Nigeria. At the time this was hardly an earth-shattering prediction:…
Let’s talk about sex
What would you do if your little child asked: “Dad, what is sex?” That was the awkward situation a couple found…
Chrisland school saga: Mum should’ve been the word!
Yes, every one is scandalized at what is now the most talked…
Is Buhari a reluctant political godfather?
‘’It’s not my problem.’’ – This was President Muhammadu Buhari’s immutable response to a question on his thoughts on the 2023 elections. Buhari has been coerced and blandished to assert himself like former President…
Obiano’s wife must be a Senator
I had a dream; well, I am not sure if it was really a dream or hallucination. In it, angels were…
Deflating Fasua’s Seven Lies Against Osinbajo With Facts
Reading through the latest tirade of Tope Fasua which he entitled 'Only God will forgive…