Tinubu’s Figures, Atiku’s Counter: Let the 2027 debate begin, by Emmanuel Aziken
There was something remarkable about the political exchange that followed President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day address on Thursday. It was not merely the sharpness of the disagreement. It was the speed. Within hours of the President presenting his economic record and declaring that Nigeria had reached a turning point, Atiku Abubakar was before the country […]
Christmas in the world
Many Nigerians are worse off this Christmas than last year’s
Kachikwu’s deliberate foozles to sell refineries
It is obvious our refineries may not come on stream due to clear cut policy of not revamping them
Good and bad news
This has been a bad year for the majority of Nigerians. We have been plunged into recession. Prices have soared and people are struggling for basic survival.
Pilgrimage to Algeria: The Mecca of African liberation
Dr Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, 67, is the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and a leader of the ruling African National Congress, ANC. She was Minister of Health under President Nelson Mandela, and then Minister of Home Affairs. She married incumbent South African President Jacob Zuma. She is one of the best known South Africans, and many speculate she wants to take a shot at the country’s Presidency. Yet, she carries with pride, an Algerian passport!
Jonathanism catching up in Africa
WE knew it was coming but we did not know that it would come so soon – that an incumbent African leader would lose an election; and if he ever lost, that he would relinquish power peacefully.
