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Shettima’s final test, by Azu Ishiekwene

Vice President Kashim Shettima cannot be blamed for having doubts about whether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would renominate him as his running mate for a second term. As governor of Lagos State for eight years, Tinubu used three deputies: KofoworolaBucknor-Akerele, Femi Pedro, and AbiodunOgunleye. Only Senate President GodswillAkpabio (as AkwaIbom governor) matched this record in the […]
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Digital bandits, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

If you use your keyboard and ring light as weapons to  terrorise people If you steal someone’s peace If you launch unprovoked attacks If you manufacture stories from nowhere If you are in the business of smoke without fire If you raid the integrity of an innocent person If you bear false witness If you […]

Birth of Jesus, reign of Christ and Christmas in Nigeria

With Emperor Constantine’s intervention and the Christian religion’s legitimisation, which gave rise to the free practice of the faith in the then Roman Empire that comprised parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, Christmas has been celebrated across cultures and constituencies. This celebration marks the special in-breaking of God in human history.

Peter Obi and the elephant he must shoot, by Emmanuel Aziken

It may appear superfluous to once again warn of the existential threat confronting Nigeria’s continued existence as a multiparty democracy, especially given the manner in which the All Progressives Congress (APC) has continued to ride roughshod across the political landscape. Yet what remains disturbingly underappreciated is not the threat itself, but the striking ill-preparedness of […]

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