What does Bola Tinubu want?
OVER the past few years, Bola Tinubu has made himself something of a colossus of South-Western politics in Nigeria. Against the onslaught of vociferous PDP electoral manipulations in 2003, Tinubu drew the line in the sand and held on to the biggest prize: Lagos. He became, in effect, the lone survivor of his party in the South-West. By 2007, using just Lagos State as his stronghold, he fought back to wrest ACN control back in all but one of the South-western states. By 2011, he had consolidated his hold in the region. With 2015 looming, it would appear to be high time for Tinubu to unfold a national, as opposed to a merely regional, agenda.
Defection: 5 ‘rebel’ Govs, INEC, shun PDP’s suit
The five ‘rebel’ governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, refused to appear before Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to join issues with their former party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over the suit seeking to declare their seats vacant
Local Content: Indigenous firm blazes trail in HDD technology
The Local Content Initiative of the Federal Government is yielding greater results, as indigenous firms are gradually gaining global recognition through their exemplary performance in Horizontal Directional Drilling, HDD Technology, in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
Dennis Rodman and basketball diplomacy
‘PING-PONG’ diplomacy paved the way to a political rapprochement between the USA and China in the 1970s. Those were the days of China’s Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, US President Richard Nixon and his diplomatic soldier and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Now, Dennis Rodman is trying to use ‘basketball diplomacy’as an instrument to defrost the ice-cold US-North Korean relations.
Govt shutdown: Mu’azu, govs, PDP Reps in crucial meeting to block APC
APPARENTLY rattled by the threat by All Progressives Congress in the National Assembly to block all government legislations until the Rivers State crisis was resolved, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, summoned its caucus members in the House of Representatives to an emergency meeting.
2015: AIG meets with political leaders in Edo
AHEAD of the 2015 general elections, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5, Benin City, Edo State, Mr. Salihu Argungu, yesterday met with leaders of political parties in Edo State, warning that the Police would not hesitate to disrupt any political rally held without a police permit.
