VP Kashim Shettima’s near miss, by Ochereome Nnanna
For nearly two months, our amiable Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima (GCON), held his breath. His principal, President Bola Tinubu, had emerged as the sole candidate for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on 25th May, 2026, scoring 10.9 million votes during the party’s nationwide direct primaries. Tinubu chose to keep his […]
North and Niger Delta’s oil wealth
MALAM Sanusi Lamido Sanusi fired the prompter. In an interview with Financial Times of London, he linked the Boko Haram Islamic terrorism to federal revenue allocation.
Out and about with Comrade Oshiomhole
SOME time in August 2008 I found myself in Benin City. I had missed a flight from the Enugu Airport so I had to take a segmented road rip back to Lagos. While the bus loaded up in Iyaro Motor Park the heavens opened up and it started raining monkeys and baboons. It was my first time in Benin under a rainy condition.
An encounter with Gov Shettima of Borno
WHEN a friend contacted me to join a few other columnists in Abuja for an encounter with Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, I saw it as a real opportunity to get behind the iron curtain of the politics of far North East Nigeria, core theatre of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.
Hurricane Lagos’ a warning shot
HURRICANE Lagos”. That was the creative alias Vanguard Newspapers entitled its main photograph of the destruction caused by a freak storm that hit the nation’s commercial capital in its Tuesday, February 14, 2012 issue. How apt!
OJUKWU (by Newswatch directors): an overview
EXACTLY one week ago, two directors of Newswatch Magazine – Malam Yakubu Mohammed and Mr. Soji Akinrinade, were ushered into the usual Monday meeting of Vanguard Board of Editors. They brandished the newest product of their “inventive genius” (apologies, Bambulu in James Ene Henshaw’s hilarious play This is Our Chance).
