Orji Uzor Kalu is a free man, courtesy of the Supreme Court. By the end of today, he will be let out of prison and begin enjoying his new life as an ‘innocent man’. It doesn’t matter that his ‘innocence’ was acquired by default. A judicial aberration gave him his lucky break. And no one…
The Three Musketeers
They were four. Suddenly, they became three when King Corona took the life of Abba Kyari, the powerful chief of staff and one of the most influential advisers to President Buhari. The three are Mamman Daura, Buhari’s beloved nephew, Ismailia Isa Funtua, his in-law (Funtua’s son is married to the president’s daughter), and Babagana Kingibe,…
The Tributes War For Abba Kyari
Since the demise of Abba Kyari, the powerful chief-of-staff of President Muhammadu Buhari, there has been an outpouring of glowing tributes by those who regarded him as a good friend. From top members of the executive, led by Buhari himself, to leaders of the National Assembly, they all have been most generous with accolades for…
The Judiciary and The Phantom Certificate
…When judges are unable and unwilling to defend their independence and the rule of law, that’s the surest way to enable the enthronement of an autocratic government – Nosa Igiebor Time is the unerring teacher of things unknown. What was not clear yesterday would become obvious tomorrow. Five years ago, millions of Nigerians gave Muhammadu…
Enmeshed in The RUGA Ruckus
The Muhammadu Buhari administration is prone to shooting itself in the foot again and again, and validating the accusation that the president is incurably parochial and out of touch with reality. The administration’s poor policy formulation is a fall-out of his lack of sensitivity to the people’s anxieties and expectations. What can be more insensitive…
The Other Side Of June 12
The celebrations are over. But the conversations on what the day truly represents continue. June 12 is now legally Nigeria’s Democracy Day. President Muhammadu Buhari, having cashed in on the “crass opportunism”, as Prince Kassim Afegbua, one of the PDP campaign spokesmen, noted, is lapping up the accolades for honouring M.K.O. Abiola, the symbol of…
At The Mercy Of Small Men
Look around you and you will have a hard time trying to identify one exceptional political leader from the lowest level of government to the apex, which is the presidency. What you find is zero because there is none. That says it all about the poverty of political leadership, which is the conundrum that is…
Once Upon A Myth
When Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president on May 29, 2015, his supporters were euphoric. No one could really begrudge their wild jubilations. They were entitled to their moments of delirium. Finally, after three failed attempts, Buhari was president. Their ‘messiah’ had arrived, and their expectations of the good times rolling in were sky-high.…
The Emperor Strikes Back
Nigerian governors are powerful. If you don’t know, think of what Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, told those unruly students in 2017 in Ibadan, when they dared to heckle him while he was addressing them: “We (that is himself) are the constituted authority”. As the ‘constituted authority’, governors can do and undo anything. Many of…
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