Tactical voting: How opposition can defeat Tinubu without a sole candidate, by Olu Fasan
This is authorial licence. I am writing about a subject on which I have no particular interest, by which I mean that I’m not rooting for any candidate in next year’s presidential election. However, I am fascinated by how the opposition parties have been “strategising” to unseat President Bola Tinubu, yet doing so in fits […]
Sarah Jibril the candidate
I HAD never really taken her serious as a politician, let alone presidential candidate. Not even that first time in April, 1993 when she vied along with Chief Moshood Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the presidential ticket of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), where she incidentally came third behind Abiola and Atiku.
That judicial Greek gift
Well…. Do you really want to know how things are? I will just set the Bible aside for a while and give you an honest answer from the bottom of my heart. My dear, things are bad, very bad. Nigeria has gone gaga and there appears to be no redemption in sight.
Mr President, an apology will do
I KNOW that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a major problem in the country, but I confess to having a different opinion about President Goodluck Jonathan. Unlike most of the country’s past leaders, he appears to be a gentleman, level-headed, civilised and neither power conscious nor power drunk.
Sudan? Football in Sudan?
Two weeks before I left Lagos for Khartoum, I tried to get in touch with friends and family to intimate them about my trip to Sudan as member of the CAF delegation to the 2nd Orange African Nations Championship ( CHAN ).
AFC’S $60m Remittance: Self against national interest?
Our sensibilities are assaulted everyday with media reports of corruption in high places, such that Nigerians now see public service as synonymous with individual pursuit of narrow self-interest.
