FOR OSHIOMHOLE, IT’S NOT A REQUIEM By Patrick .O
On Thursday, June 25, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) held in the bowel of Aso Rock Villa in Abuja. At the meeting, President…
BEYOND CUTTING KEYAMO TO SIZE
After several years of stomaching insolence from operatives of the executive, Nigeria’s long-suffering National Assembly last week finally mustered the courage to bite, as it sank its teeth into no…
HOW DID WE GET HERE? By Jide Oritunsin
I still remember growing up in my own part of Nigeria when we did not have crude petroleum but had cocoa, palm oil, rubber and lots of hardwood timber which…
MAGU: A NATION’s FIVE YEARS GO TO WASTE By Olawale Olaleye
In the foreseeable future, there’ll be many slants to the travails of the now suspended chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu. Any time historians attempt…
PRIVATE JETS… THE ABUSE, THE SANCTION
Since March 23 when domestic carriers suspended scheduled flights, some governors and other highly-placed individuals have hopped across the country in private jets. The abuse of flight permits to privately-owned…
HUSHPUPPI’S DEATH By Sam Omatseye
It is Ramon Abbas he bears. Even that name puzzles. Some reports anglicise his first name as Raymond. But it is Hushpuppi we know, poetic, lyrical and even symbolic. Hush…
LIFE THROUGH WIKE’s BINOCULARS
Never mind how frequently Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State exhibits an ardent streak bordering on the dramatic when he seizes upon an idea. What has become noteworthy is how…
PMB: THE INCOMPARABLE PRESIDENT By Ibrahim M. Baba
I was just passing in Unguwan Jaki, a very busy and one of the business trending streets in Bauchi Metropolis when I heard some youths shouting and arguing heavily on…
THE POLITICS OF TINUBU-OBSESSION By Azu Ishiekwene
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has very strong enemies and a few of them would not wait for him to die before burying…
WIKE VINDICATES BUHARISTS By Femi Adesina
It came like a bolt out of the blue. Early this week, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, issued an advertisement, which went in a completely different direction compared to what…