Gov Alex Otti’s “exit” plan controversy, by Ochereome Nnanna
Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti (OFR), recently got tongues wagging when he, once again, averred that at the end of his tenure he would hand over and disappear from politics. He harped on the need to give the youth a chance to lead, affirming that there are young people who are more intelligent, qualified, […]
For Fubara and Natasha, it may be a brain reset to factory setting, by Rotimi Fasan
Siminalayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, is poised to return to office tomorrow after the six months of imposed emergency rule by President Bola Tinubu lapses. Mr. Fubara has undergone the human equivalent of what technology experts call device reset. In the case of the governor, he seems to have experienced a brain reset. He […]
Africa and the Membership of the United Nations Security Council: Beyond the Ezulwini Consensus, by Usman Sarki
“History will judge those who stood by and said nothing, when they could have done something“– The Honourable Jeremy Corbin, MP Eighty years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations was created as humanity’s great experiment in collective security and shared destiny. Its Charter promised to “save succeeding generations from the […]
Rivers: One governor, two godfathers, by Ochereome Nnanna
Barring any last minute hitches, Amaopusenibo Siminalayi Fubara will be back to office as the Governor of Rivers State after enduring his six months “suspension” by President Bola Tinubu. He will not be the same confident, belligerent and defiant rebel who walked away from the Brick House, Port Harcourt on March 18, 2025. The Tinubu/Wike rain […]
The supreme powers of the President(4), by Eric Teniola
From last week continues the statement by President Obasanjo in defence of the military invasion of Zaki-Biam in Benue State to avenge the killing of 19 soldiers whose mutilated bodies were found on October 12, 2001, near some Tiv villages. He argued that the deployment of soldiers in this regard was justified under the prevailing […]
Our elections, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“When problems come, they bring along all their relations”.– African proverb. At a Round-table on Electoral Reforms organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last week in Abuja, the Chairman of the Commission made an important foray into the forest of challenges which our electoral system needs to address. Please note I did not say […]
