Yakubu Mohammed
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
I’m frankly not excited about an Atiku Abubakar presidency. In a previous widely shared Facebook status update, which I developed into a full-length article titled “There must be an alternative to Buhari Atiku” for my December 16, 2017 column, I … Read the rest
Dele Momodu with Atiku Abubakar
Fellow Nigerians, interesting times are here again. And the ways of God are mysterious indeed. This time last week, no one was sure who would ultimately emerge as the quintessential leader of opposition for the general elections in our dear … Read the rest
Obasanjo endorses Atiku
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said he has reviewed his stance on not backing his former deputy for the presidency of Nigeria.
Mr. Obasanjo spoke when Atiku Abubakar and leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party visited him at his … Read the rest
Suleiman Abba, former Inspector General of Police
While the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Primaries were holding in Port Harcourt, River State, last Saturday, I was in Minna, Niger State and I visited former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida who warmly received me. In a conversation lasting about … Read the rest
Femi Falana, Fela and Beko Ransome Kuti
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” —Prof Wole Soyinka.
THEY were some kind of special breed, always so well revered and even adored! The activists! They were deservedly admired as mirrors of the … Read the rest
By Abimbola Adelakun
By the question of debate, I do not just mean the televised event where one man stands against his opponent and both make a pitch for the vote of the audience. The debate between the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, … Read the rest
Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) South West
Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) from the south-west have called on people in the region to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
Addressing journalists during a protest at the entrance of the presidential villa in Abuja … Read the rest
By Abdullahi Dass
In 2019, there are new considerations, which make Buhari’s victory against a nationally acceptable opposition candidate an electoral impossibility.
One, 2015 was Buhari’s finest year politically.
He was packaged and widely accepted as a national saint, poor but with unparalleled … Read the rest
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
It is no longer news that the screening of aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with some of its interesting outcomes, has come and gone.
One of the interesting fallout was the audacious disqualification of two … Read the rest
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