Obi can win if he steps up!!! By Donu Kogbara
Dr Yunusa Tanko was one of Peter Obi’s staunchest allies for years. News that he has resigned from the Obidient Movement he once coordinated to head the presidential campaign council of Prince Adewole Adebayo’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) came as a shock to me and many other onlookers. As former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, […]
Fighting terror: Problematic solutions
THE National Assembly is reported to be planning to procure full body scanners, which are equipment used to detect bombs and other weapons on people, but only by exposing a person’s full nakedness. The equipment had caused much controversy in Europe and the United States when it was first introduced, despite the overwhelming clamour for better security for citizens.
Review of the 1999 Constitution and Nigerian democracy (3)
DEMOCRACY for the Civilian Elite was the subject of General Abubakar’s address. This is not the Project of Democracy for the Masses, Democracy for the Majority may preserve constitutionalist governments and therefore civilian constitutionalist governments, Not so for Democracy for the Civilian Elite.
Revolution? Wake me up if it ever starts!
ONE of the phrases I have come to hate nowadays is “lesson for Nigeria”. I have really had it up my hairline; I want to puke! Everybody is now an (unsolicited) expert on “lesson for Nigeria”. If a President is assassinated somewhere, they jump out, “lesson for Nigeria”!
Beach Soccer, Eket hope and morah as metaphor
I sincerely apologise to my readers who have queried my absence from these pages in the past three weeks. I must say that I got so engrossed in the business of developing sports in this country, that I could not put my thoughts together in print.
Re: Pensioners’ ‘I’m alive exercise’
With regards to the above piece, I was very surprised to find out that all those who wrote in, (I assume that they’re pensioners) supported the annual verification exercise of Federal Government pensioners
