2027: Atiku’s kitchen-sink strategy betrays crude populism, by Olu Fasan
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is adopting a kitchen-sink approach to next year’s presidential race. A “kitchen-sink approach” involves throwing everything at a problem regardless of what works or doesn’t. That’s precisely what Atiku is doing by promising to tackle every conceivable vexed issue if he becomes president next […]
Nigeria cannot be broke
IN his justification of the recent increase in the pomp price of fuel, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, postulated that the issue was not about oil subsidy but that Nigeria was skint.
Beyond Buhari’s Tom-and-Jerry with Fayose
IF you examine the battle of wits between President Muhammadu Buhari and his most outspoken critic, Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, you will see yet another déjà vu of Nigerian politics; a theatre of the absurd where the same drama sketch is repeated at different epochs but not necessarily by the same thespian talents.
Ode to MKO: A parody of Shakespeare
This is the day about which the supremest sacrifice was paid by ‘one’, so that the tree that is dear to us all –of our democracy- may thrive. He that shall witness this day from hence should, yearly, remind his neighbors and his friends; and say to them ‘this is the 12th day of June’, the day that the gods themselves, of ‘democracy’ hath made.
Facing up to an incompetent political class
Every generation sees its rights, benefits and morals challenged by acrimonious vested interests—the rise of Donald Trump shows the racist, conflict-ridden undercurrent present in America’s hinterlands has been kept alive by institutionalised poverty and manipulative politicians, just as it has been in Nigeria.
CJN’s appointment: Courting trouble
ONE wouldn’t know why but Abuja again seems to be courting needless and avoidable controversy, even trouble, with its reported plan to appoint a new Chief Justice of the Federation from the Nigerian Bar.
