Saving Tinubu from APC II
WHICHEVER side of the argument he wants to listen to, one can only urge him to clearly demarcate his role…
Saving Tinubu from APC
SOMETIMES in 2014, in the buildup to the 2015 general elections, I was analysing the political trends with a friend…
2019: Why INEC must be closely watched
TWO incidents, the good and the bad, happened last week about that operations of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).…
Under Buhari, have we lost all sense of accountability?
THERE was hoopla when the government of President Muhammadu Buhari announced the list of the chairmen and members of the…
Buhari and the roforofo in NASS
ON Wednesday, the Senate witnessed some commotion as a number of the Red Chamber occupants (Senators) walked out of the…
OBJ, IBB and Buhari: How time flies
IN my first year in the University, I read a poem which deifies Time as the all in all. In…
2023: Before the Igbos are hooked
When some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the South East geopolitical zone visited President Muhammadu Buhari at…
From OBJ’s national coalition to Audu Ogbeh’s cattle colonies
WHEN I wrote last week that the Season of scorecard is here last week, little did I know that the…
The season of scorecard is here
WE have talked about the fundamentals of 2019 Presidency and identified the expanding scope of the issues, from basically three,…
Fundamentals of 2019 Presidency
IN the build-up to the 2015 general election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) rested its campaign on three key pillars…
Questions of note as we enter election year (II)
lynx-eyeLAST week, we treated two of the questions I regard as of essence as we enter 2018, which to all…
Questions of note as we enter election year
Year 2018 is the real election year in Nigeria, even though the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed February…
Atona Oodua, Olabode George, the South-West and the PDP
THE National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which took place on December 9 witnessed what some persons had…
How Power Ministry under develops Nigeria (II)
BUT when that company was ready to deliver, officials of the Ministry of Power changed the policy from gas to…
How Power Ministry underdevelops Nigeria (I)
IN the two year scorecard published by the Federal Government recently, there are claims the government has increased power generation…
As Atiku returns to PDP
EARLY on Friday, the airwaves got hit by the big news of the resignation of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar from the…
Why budgets don’t work for you
SINCE the return of democracy, each budget presentation sessions have become a sort of annual ritual. The lawmakers would clap…
Melaye, Fashola and the legislative stereotypes
Again, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola is engaged in altercations with the National Assembly over…
Before the Senate arrests the IGP
For some time now, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has been at daggers drawn with Senator Isah…
Gani Adams: The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland
I have come to recognise the awe, power and relevance of the Aare Ona Kakanfo title very early in life…
