As APC hawks strategize ahead of 2023 presidency, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will require the grace of God to survive the intrigues with his reputation intact It is forty-four months to the next general elections in Nigeria and just four months into President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term of four years but politicians are already executing…
Cover Story: The Return of Tyranny
After 20 years of unbroken civil rule, Nigeria’s democracy is regressing into another tyranny I do solemnly swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; that as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I will discharge my duties to the best of my ability, faithfully and…
Address By President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerians in South Africa on 4TH October 2019
XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS EMBARRASSING: It gives me pleasure to be with you today. I hope you had a memorable 59th Independence Anniversary celebrations on 1st October 2019. This auspicious occasion calls for unity of purpose, strength and focus by all Nigerians, at home and abroad, for our progress and development as a nation. 2. As you are aware,…
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…
NDDC Chairman Designate, Pius Odubu Promises Turn Around, Accountability
The chairman-in waiting of the recently constituted board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the immediate past deputy governor of Edo State, Pius Egberamwen Odubu, has pledged that the Commission’s projects would be executed in a manner that would ensure value for money. Odubu, a lawyer, also said accountability would not be compromised.…
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…
NDDC: Oil Producing States Jostle for Board
In anticipation of the constitution of the next NDDC Board, politicians scheme for the top job. President Muhammadu Buhari will need a clear head to wade through the present cacophony of agitation to make the right decision in the appointment of the next board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC board. The last board…
Buhari Promises to Consolidate Change
President Muhammadu Buhari expresses confidence in the future of Nigeria at 2019 Democracy Day and promises to build on the gains of his first term. President Muhammadu Buhari began the era of June 12 as Democracy Day in Nigeria on an optimistic spirit at the Eagle Square Abuja. Having been sworn in on May 29,…
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…
Second Term: Buhari Keeps Nigerians Guessing
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo were sworn-in Wednesday for their second term of four years in a colourful ceremony at the Eagle Square, Abuja. Witnessed by a modest audience of local and the diplomatic community, the acting chief justice of the Federation, Justice Tanko Mohammed administered the presidential oath and oath of…
