Tinubu and his incredible ministers, by Azu Ishiekwene
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has failed to keep his promise to provide a constant electricity supply. He said at a business lunch in December 2022 that he shouldn’t be voted for a second term if he didn’t fix the electricity supply problem and end estimated billing in his first term. Although he modified that pledge […]
Of liberty, enslavement and patriotism
LAST weekend, I had cause to sit at a roundtable of sorts with a bunch of passionate Nigerian youths. The word ‘youth’, of course, is used rather loosely here as we have the national tendency to do. We appear youthful in these parts much longer than they do in other places.
Otegbeye: A debt of gratitude
MY generation and the younger generation may not be aware that we owe a debt of historical gratitude to Jeremiah Olatunji Otegbeye who passed away on Friday October 9, 2009.
Coup against Bauchi State ANPP (5)
THE President has no constitutional power to prevent the application of sections 188 and 189 by State House of Assembly, however reprehensible its motive might be.
These filthy Naira notes
MANY times you wonder as a Nigerian if anything good can ever come out of this country. You despair over the possibility of those in positions of authority ever seeing the need to do something without an eye for some form of personal gain.
Dear Minister, President, come to Eket
By Paul Bassey For the benefit of my rising band of readers let me repeat the fact that this column usually goes in on Friday sometimes as early as noon. What this means and sadly too is that I will not be in a position to discuss the decisive CAF Champions league return leg cracker […]
