2027: Atiku’s kitchen-sink strategy betrays crude populism, by Olu Fasan
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is adopting a kitchen-sink approach to next year’s presidential race. A “kitchen-sink approach” involves throwing everything at a problem regardless of what works or doesn’t. That’s precisely what Atiku is doing by promising to tackle every conceivable vexed issue if he becomes president next […]
Collegiate presidency and national harmony
Under normal circumstances where political and public offices are geared towards the service of the people, there is little or no personal gain in capturing power or its retention.
Age cheating:The Ikeddy solution
I want to believe that after this week, I may lay to rest ( For a while) the issue of age cheating and the development of the game of football, which has dominated my column for the past four weeks.
GEJ, hero of this transition
EVERY generation has its heroes and patriots”, says American songster, Paul Simon. As well as its demons and villains, may I add? Indeed every time we successfully transit from one regime to another, a number of individuals pop up as the architects of its success or failure.
Easter & a re-birth for our nation
The event that Christians all over the world are marking today is a re-birth. That is, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, which signifies hope for eternal life for His followers.
Post-election violence in Nigeria
Yesterday, the elections for governors were not held in Kaduna and Bauchi, two states in the upper north of Nigeria considered to be major flashpoints of the violence that came on the heels of last week’s presidential election. The announcement of the result of the national poll result was followed by a paroxysm of bloodletting on a scale that some, including the president-elect, has compared to the situation in the 1960s that led first, to the exodus of Easterners particularly the Igbo, and then to the civil war.
