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 […]
The seas do not require human sacrifice
THE Mediterranean Sea for three days last week claimed over seven hundred lives. The extent of this tragedy, was enough for the United Nations to call an emergency Security Council meeting. But no serious reaction came from those who claim to be protectors of the human race.
An historic event
Yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari was ably represented by his Vice-President, Professor Osinbajo, at an historic event that took place in my village, Bodo….the official launch of the clean-up of contaminated water and land in Ogoniland, as recommended by the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP.
An end and a new beginning
JUST a few minutes past eleven in the morning last Wednesday, I received a telephone call from Nigeria’s Information Minister, Lai Mohammed. He congratulated me and told me that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved my appointment as the Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).
Entering year two more positively (2)
THE first part of this article on Monday reviewed President Muhammadu Buhari’s general approach to the governance in the past one year. Today, we will briefly look at the three cardinal policies of the regime (security, economic diversification/job creation and the war on corruption), how they have fared and how they can fare better in the years ahead.
Nigeria’s romance with malaria
OVER time, malaria has virtually assumed the same status with the weather, which everyone complains about; and yet nobody is able to do anything about it.
