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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 […] More
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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. […] More
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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 […] More
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Apartheid, Fraudulent Victory And A Sham Panel
There is apartheid in Nigeria. It is the policy of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. In South Africa, apartheid was institutionalised racism developed by the roguish political elements of the white minority to seize all the country’s resources for themselves and keep the black African majority in perpetual servitude and penury. The abhorrent racist policy […] More
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The Invisible President And Our Killing Fields
The statistics are getting grimmer and there is no end in sight to the rampant violence and mindless killings that blight the landscape. So many parts of the country have become killing fields. And nobody is safe anymore, anywhere. From the terrorism of Boko Haram and rampaging armed bandits to the killer herdsmen and kidnappers, […] More
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Lessons From India’s Mammoth Election
India is famous for its film industry, Bollywood. It is the world’s biggest in the number of movies it produces annually. The movies have a huge global audience mainly because of the singing and intricately choreographed dancing they always feature. Also, they tell stories that hundreds of millions of people around the world can easily […] More
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in Big Story, Politics, The ReportCelebrating Barons, Mediocrity and Brigandage
Failing to plan and planning to fail are two unsavoury sides of the same bad coin. They denote incompetence and lack of understanding of the basic building blocks of dynamic change. And dynamic change is the main driver of progressive development in all spheres of human endeavours. Nigerian governments at all levels do both with […] More
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Einstein’s Dictum and Nigeria’s Malady – Nosa Igiebor
Nigerians exemplify Albert Einstein’s classic definition of insanity. The great German physicist had said that doing the same thing, the same way all the time, and expecting a different outcome is madness. We seem hardwired to continue doing and thinking the same thing, same way forever. The constant failures that our madness produces have not […] More
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THE DAY OF INFAMY By Nosa Igiebor
Since after the Civil War, which threatened the continuing survival of Nigeria as one nation, whenever we are faced with serious challenges, we kick them far than the road. And we just move on. We are always moving on. But the question is, moving on to where? Anytime Nigeria moves on, it’s going backwards and […] More
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DON’T CRY FOR BUHARI
Four years ago, the popular slogan of millions of Buhari’s supporters was Febuari. It was a special coinage from the word Febuary and Buhari. And it signified to the Buhari devotees the expected victory of General Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) in the presidential election originally scheduled for Febuary 14, 2015. With the approval of the Council […] More
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The Politricks of a Certificate
There is nothing more damaging than self-indictment. This is what President Muhammadu Buhari has inflicted on himself with the needless certificate scandal he first created in 2014 when he ran for president and won at the fourth attempt. Among the documents he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC was a sworn affidavit in […] More