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    The Sad Chronicles Of a Failed ‘Messiah’

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Even his most rabid critics could not have imagined that he would reduce Nigeria to a failed state. Six years on, Muhammadu Buhari has achieved the feat with outstanding ease, as the country has, literally and factually, become one whose defining dynamic is […] More

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    The Imperial President And His Self-Absorption

    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

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    The Embarrassing Impotence Of Federal Might

    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

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    When Will Buhari Stand Up?

    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

  • Muhammadu Buhari, Donald Trump and Goodluck Jonathan Photo

    We All Are Now Wailing Wailers

    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

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    It’s Mourning in Nigeria

    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

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    Remembering Jonathan

    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