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Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Abubakar Malami has a special gift for inviting discerning people to dismiss him as a clown. Indeed he’s a clown, but a very dangerous clown. This is because he’s the minister of justice and federal attorney-general. His portfolio makes him the country’s chief […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Nigeria is bleeding dangerously and inexorably falling apart. But the urgency of the moment, when the country is virtually leaderless as myriad groups of criminals overwhelm the state, hasn’t stopped ambitious politicians from advertising their 2023 presidential quest so early. The […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Muhammadu Buhari is hypocrisy personified in very vivid colours. The irony of the cosmic distance between his words and deeds seems to be always lost on him. He and his shrinking army of core supporters think that he shouldn’t, and cannot, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] Nigeria’s president is one of the most powerful state executives in the world. The constitution provides very little limitations on his authority. When this is combined with a supine National Assembly whose members are in awe of the president and commander-in-chief, we […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] At a time the country is severely challenged on all fronts, Muhammadu Buhari, the president who’s not a president, takes a break from his hibernation in the fortified confines of Aso Rock. He’s in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State, on what’s officially […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It’s now official. Nigeria has slid into another recession after two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. Hardly surprising. Even those who’re not economists saw it coming. The corona pandemic and its unprecedented global economic dislocation guaranteed it for Nigeria. And even more so […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Change can be both evolutionary and revolutionary. When it’s slow, steady and constructive, that’s evolution. When it’s rapid, even sudden, and transformative in a positive way, that’s revolution. But revolution is oftentimes violent in changing a nation’s political landscape. And it usually happens […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow So, fuel subsidy is gone. Those who had always advocated for its end are celebrating. But those who see it as an entitlement for the masses are angry. If it’s gone, then it’s a special anniversary gift to Nigeria at 60. But is […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Politicians will say and do anything and everything to win elections. Just see how President Donald Trump is willfully distorting facts, inventing fictions to strengthen the narratives that suit him and creating an alternative reality of the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, and […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Adams Oshiomhole is on a roll. He’s revelling wantonly in his unrestrained power to do as he pleases. The ex-comrade and former governor has achieved his aim. He’s now the sovereign of APC and self-anointed godfather of Edo State politics. He believes that, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Muhammadu Buhari administration exists in a parallel world, where alternative facts rule and reality is willfully distorted. Five years on, their Nigeria, according to them, has turned the corner. It is on the road to becoming “a shining city on a hill”, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Change was nothing but a chimera sold by snake oil salesmen and saleswomen. We were warned, by those who feared, that embracing the chimera would be a disastrously wrong turn on our road to democratic progression. They had seen through the smokes-and-mirror agenda […] More
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