Africa’s most populated country and the world’s 26th largest economy is heading for a meltdown as a direct result of envy politics.
It was an election between a multimillionaire pro-business candidate seen as part of the establishment and a … Read the rest
The North has made its choice with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari for another four years. The difference between Buhari’s votes and those of Atiku Abubakar is 3,928,869. Out of that figure, the South West’s contribution is 259,780. What … Read the rest
Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s ludicrously impotent threat that citizens of foreign powers who intervene in Nigeria’s internal affairs “would go back in body bags” and his duplicitous attempt to explain away the homicidal signification of the trope of“body bags” … Read the rest
Some clarifications are in order. By Buhari’s fan club I’m not by any means referring to those who constitute the power behind the throne – the invisible hands that make things move.
No, not the notorious cabal, real or imaginary, … Read the rest
YOU don’t have to be enamored with Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s politics to concede that he is, for now, the nonpareil political hegemon of Nigeria’s Southwest. Sure, his hegemonic hold over the region’s political space isn’t total and unchallenged, but … Read the rest
The candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Obiageli Ezekwesili, has withdrawn from the 2019 presidential race.
A statement issued by the spokesperson for the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation, Ozioma Ubabukoh, the former Minister withdrew to help … Read the rest
Politicians of South-West extraction in the All Progressives Congress are currently in the process of manufacturing the consent of the Yoruba people through the exploitation of communal identity. You can tell that by cynical opportunism rife in their campaigns. Let … Read the rest
Yakubu Mohammed
Abimbola Adelakun
When the All Progressives Congress unveiled its campaign on Sunday, one of the issues that quickly arose was the plagiarism of its so-called Next Level logo. The logo itself has to be one of the most unimaginative concepts ever launched … Read the rest
“There was no bitterness in him after he left power. He did not look back. He did not look down. Instead he looked up and after looking up, he looked forward and went on pressing ahead. That forward movement has … Read the rest
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