2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the substantive issues that confront them. There is nothing particularly wrong with that as long as such antics are within the ambit of the law. But most Nigerian politicians like […]
I remember Rangers, Shooting Stars, Enyimba….
The day is Friday, November 29. Time now is 4pm. I am sitting in my room in Dundee’s Hotel in Lubumbashi, Congo DR. As member of the CAF delegation to the final of the CAF Orange Champion’s League, Africa’s premier club competition.
Farida’s shambolic agenda
RETIRED policewoman and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Hajiya Farida Waziri, seems very confused but desperate for applause. How else would you view the recent publication of about 40 names of politicians currently being investigated and tried by the Commission, which were forwarded to the political parties to ensure they do not stand for election in 2011?
The senate’s third term blow
THROWN OUT’ was a newspaper’s headline, celebrating the Senate crushing of the executive bill sneakily passed to the National Assembly on the apron of the Jega-exigency which sought to reverse an electoral feat already achieved by the NASS-namely the barring of presidential battalion of aides as delegates to presidential party primaries!
Just before we sack INEC’s Ayoka Adebayo
Since the Court of Appeal flawed the Ekiti Governorship re-run election , many analysts have called for the removal of Mrs Ayoka Adebayo, the then Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC).
“I am not guilty”
When I returned from my United Kingdom trip on Monday evening, I did not see my neighbour. He did not come to see me. It was unusual not to see him. At least I would meet him at prayers.
