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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 […]
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And it happened!

Hi Readers! It takes a lot of courage to sleep when there’s so much sorrow in the house, so, needless to say that I found it difficult to go to sleep in Tayo’s room to which Liz, Boma, Becky and I had retired for the night.

Re-Maigari is right on this

The above was the title of Onochie Anibeze’s column,last week, Friday, April 13. If the column was in another paper and not the Vanguard, I would have adopted it wholesale to further preach the gospel of development in our football.

‘If not me, it is you’

By Kola Animashaun Professor Dora Akunyili does not need any introduction.  Or you do not know that she was the over-all boss at NAFDAC for many years until she was invited to the Ministership of Information in Abuja?  She did a damned good job in both places. Now, she is aspiring to go to the […]

Buhari tears up for Nigeria

Yesterday, Nigerians went to the polls to elect their president. The polls’ results will become clearer today and a new president would have emerged. Judging from last week’s showing at the polls, General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) is unlikely to garner enough votes to be the new president, unless a great shift of grounds happens at the last minutes to change the last tallies at the polls. But Buhari has run a good campaign. He has appealed, cajoled, and he has presented himself forcefully on the platform of progressive change.

Re: Politics – Selective amnesia

Just what can an individual do to a politician you’ve helped to vote into power, who neglects to keep his campaign promises? That was the question on the lips of most of our readers who reacted to the subject. It’s a helpless situation we find ourselves in as you can’t force the person to keep those promises.

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