Can Tinubu dvice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Tinubu’s extraordinary intervention in the freezing of an Osun State Government account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has brought into sharp relief a question that has increasingly shadowed his presidency: who exactly acts in the President’s name, and how much of what is done around him carries his prior knowledge and approval? […]
The Dollar fetish, SUVs and the colonisation of the African mind, by Usman Sarki
“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards”,– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks In the nineteenth century, many African communities exchanged their lands and even their kin for beads, mirrors, trinkets, and other fanciful objects of vanity that European traders dangled before them. These […]
Politics of Lagos Igbo property demolitions, by Ochereome Nnanna
The emergence of Senator Bola Tinubu as the “winner” of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship ticket on December 21,1998, unknown to many, marked a major historic turning point for Lagos State. Ordinarily, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the man in charge of the party’s primaries in Lagos, should have insisted on a rerun. He did not, mainly […]
Flowers for Arise News, by Okoh Aihe
I am fascinated by the packaging of Arise News. History is unfolding before our very eyes and we hardly know it. Global TV depends on premium TV programming to attract TV eyes. Everyday, Arise News delivers something substantial, always leaving enough juice to titillate the senses of those who love or hate them. And they come […]
ELECTRICITY: FG’s debt hits N6trn as GenCos push for urgent payment
By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja Power generation companies, yesterday intensified pressure on the Federal Government (FG) to urgently address the worsening liquidity crisis in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) as debts owed to them have risen to N6 trillion. The Chairman of the Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC) Board, Col. Sani Bello (Retd), expressed concern […]
The ever-lingering Benue-Plateau crisis(2), by Eric Teniola
From last week continues the narrative on the Benue-Plateau crisis based on early encounters with Chief Solomon Lar in Jos and Chief Joseph Tarka in Makurdi. I visited Makurdi for the first time in 1977, courtesy of Chief Joseph Sarwuan Tarka. On March 30, this year, it was 45 years that Chief Joseph Sarwuan Tarka (July […]
