They wrote fiction, but they failed to provide its sweet ingredient: credibility. It’s one thing to write a lie. You fail if your readers believe it is a lie. The irony is that a good lie must throw up a … Read the rest
Death wish – By Sam Omatseye
APC
2019: How will the church vote? – By Abimbola Adelakun
When the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate for the 2019 elections, Atiku Abubakar, visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, one of the striking faces in the photographs that emerged from the meeting was that of the founder … Read the rest
Between an old Buharist and the new Buharideens – By Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, today’s epistle was inspired last minute by an encounter I had last night with a Buharideen. I had been contemplating what to write about this week when I ran into a staff of Indomie Noodles, the most popular … Read the rest
Ethnic and Religious Bigotry as Buhari’s 2019 Campaign Strategy – By Farooq Kperogi
Political campaigns are supposed to be aspirational and inspirational. They are supposed to stir in the electorate a fervor for an unrealized but conceivably realizable future. It’s this quality of campaigns and its contrast with the brass tacks of governance … Read the rest
There Was a Party: Who Has Jazzed APC? – By Dele Momodu
Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, let me state once again that I have never been a member of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, but I was almost a fanatical supporter of its Presidential flagbearer, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, in the 2015 Presidential election. The … Read the rest
Come 2019, Tinubu will be the tiger
All what happens in the political landscapes are in themselves mere acts. But taken together they give us hints of those who will play what roles and what directions they may go. Today we may zero in on APC. Why … Read the rest
Buhari, Atiku and Bukar Ibrahim’s prognosis – Gbenga Omotoso
Bukar Abba Ibrahim
BUKAR Abba Ibrahim deserves our pity.
The distinguished three-term senator and former governor of Yobe State has just tasted what has been the undeserved lot of our patriotic and honest politicians, who are always being “misquoted” or “quoted out of … Read the rest
Not too big to fail – By Yakubu Mohammed
Buhari and Oshiomhole
A lot of pushing back is required from the apparatchiks of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, if it must avoid the coming to pass of the grim prophecy of one of its own.
Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim does not … Read the rest
2019: The choices before us – By Ebun Adegboruwa
Buhari and Atiku
POLITICAL activities have now gone full scale, with the conclusion of the primary elections of the political parties. However, the questions on many lips in Nigeria today are: Who should be the president of this great nation, come 2019? … Read the rest
How I became addicted to social media – Dele Momodu
Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, if you are not yet on any social media platform, or you are one of those still doubting the efficacy of the new revolution in town, you are certainly on a long thing, to borrow one of those
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