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 […]
Constitution: GEJ’s opening gambit
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan seems dead serious about reforming our body politic. Less than six months after he was sworn in as elected president, he has made a second attempt to show this.
Why Achebe’s rejections matter
PROFESSOR Chinua Achebe was not the first prominent Nigerian (nor the only one) to reject the now controversial National Honours.
Boko Haram’s Yobe slaughter-fest
THE latest gruesome harvest by the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, had the exact outlines of the opening gambit deployed by Front de Liberation Nationale, FNL, to snatch independence from colonial powers, France . Just as in our case where Friday, November 4, 2011 was chosen by our local terrorists, the FNL opted for November 1, 1954 , a day usually set aside by the French colonial establishment to celebrate their All Saints Day.
Questions on Dangote’s GCON: Nigerians react
HAVING spoken my mind on the award of the highest National Honour ever bestowed on a non-governmental functionary (Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, GCON) to Nigeria’s richest man and industrialist, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, I offer the reading public a chance to say theirs today.
Create regions; abolish states, LGAs (2)
I AM converting this topic to a two-part serial in response to a challenge posed by one of the readers. He or she did not supply his/her name, but the GSM number is 08033539191. And the text message reads: “Your article on page 49 in the Vanguard of today (Monday October 31st 2011) is not in-depth at all. You wrote about why the 1979 and 1999 Constitutions failed. You even wrote why suggestions by others will not work but you did not do a good job on how yours will succeed”. May I thank the reader for this prompting. There must be millions of others who share this view.
