Fake independence: So, Tinubu can tell EFCC what to do! By Olu Fasan
Some Nigerians commit the delusional sin of believing that once a state institution has the word “independent” prefixed to its name, it is, indeed, independent. They believe that critical state agencies created by statute or the Constitution to ensure security and law and order, to guarantee justice and rule of law, to safeguard electoral integrity and […]
They’re talking more about politics and less on commonsense economics
The good news about Nigeria is that life is never dull – there are always moments of drama and fun. The movement of the former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakir from the Peoples‘ Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Party (APC) has been described by Atiku as normal in Nigeria‘s political evolution. It should be recalled with considerable amusement that the former Vice-President is not new in the game of seeking political green pastures. Perhaps, he is an adept in such a game of political opportunism. Who would not seek the prime political prize in a country where ‘everything goes‘?
Pa Ojidoh’s last regret
On Monday night, Pa John Ojidoh passed on in his home town, Ilah in Delta. He was 88.
As we approach the 2015 war
IT was in the spring of 1974. My letter of admission to Mercy College, DobbsFerry, New York, to study Criminal Justice arrived our Bronx residence, in the presence of an American friend, Meredith. This letter produced an open ambivalence: while I was obviously elated, my friend was totally pensive. Her feeling emanated from the fact that the Jehovah’s Witnesses, to which she belonged, had predicted that Armageddon – the apocalypse that would consume the world – was coming in the winter of that year. She rued the prospect of anyone wasting money and time, entering into a venture at the edge of a precipice.
Mark, Tambuwal in survival footwork
SENATE President, David Mark and Speaker of the House of Reps, Aminu Tambuwal, are riding fierce storms to keep their seats and defend the interests of their political parties. On the surface of it, Mark and Tambuwal belong to the same People’s Democratic Party (PDP). But below the surface where the real action is, Tambuwal has his heart fully in the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
Politics without principles: Our politicians ‘port and de-port’
ONE of the most ill-concealed intensions in Nigerian politics, the decamping of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, finally took place early this week. The cream of the opposition faction of the Nigerian neo-colonial ruling class, collected in the All Progressive Congress, APC, made its way to Yola, to receive the Adamawa ‘big fish’, into their midst.
