Backstory of Osun Poll, and What’s Next for Adeleke, by Azu Ishiekwene
The money that politicians didn’t spend in Osun during the August 15 governorship election was the money they didn’t have and couldn’t steal. All kinds of figures have been bandied about, in hundreds of millions and billions. It’s difficult to say if these are over- or underestimations. But damn, it was some cash! Credible sources suggest […]
All lives matter
The President must address firmly, the various killings around the country
Insanity is closing the airport for six weeks
THEY say there’s no going back on the decision to close the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja for six weeks, starting March 8.
Freedom of speech-concerns
A COUPLE of weeks ago, a group of Nigerian public commentators, intellectuals, activists and writers wrote an open letter in which they expressed – to President Muhammadu Buhari – deep concern over “what appears to be an increase in harassment by security services of journalists going about their work.”
The choices of Africa
IT had been a hard choice; Africa electing a new chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) to run the continental body. The option had been forced on her after the chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the former liberation fighter from South Africa resisted pressures to stand for a second term; opting to contest the Presidential elections in her country.
Trump versus bastardised America
LOOK at the irony of “change”, which took effect in America on January 20th 2017, compared with what happened in Nigeria on May 29th 2015. Unlike Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military Head of State, the newbie United States President, Donald Trump, has never occupied any governmental post before now.
