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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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    Beyond Okonjo-Iweala’s Ankara Fabrics and Signature Headgear

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Our own Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian, nay African pride, and toast of the international community, assumed duty on Monday March 1, 2021 as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO the global trade referee. It is historic, epochal and […] More

  • Former President Goodluck Jonatan and President Muhammadu Buhari Photo

    Our Romance With Hunger

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] In Nigeria, we make light of serious issues, including those that bother on our existence as a people. Most of the time, we allow partisan politics and ethnic affiliations to becloud our judgements; but when things go bad, we result to […] 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

  • Gernart Rorh with Amaju Pinnick

    The Problem with our Football Administrators

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The current carpeting of the coach of the Nigerian senior football team, Gernart Rorh, over the Super Eagles’ recent poor performances, has further exposed our fundamental failure to dissect issues of national interest in ways that would engender real term progress. Much has […] More

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    Trump’s Nigerian Wailing Wailers

    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

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    A Yellow Card For The Rulers

    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

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    The End Of Executive Stupidity?

    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

  • 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

  • Oshiomhole, Obaseki and Ize-Iyamu Photo

    Nigeria’s Democrazy and Its Undertakers

    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

  • It's Mourning in Nigeria

    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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