There are certainly many things to be ashamed of concerning the present National Assembly, and the House of Representatives in particular. Indeed, many, many things. Is it in the way that the House has cavorted around the presidency that is generally believed to have imposed its leadership? Who has forgotten that after the horrifying beheading […]

Wednesday’s savage attack on Rotimi Amaechi by Nyesom Wike was arguably the most brutal public attack by a sitting governor on a predecessor. Alcohol, remarkably, was the trigger. Wike spoke at the commissioning of Omuihuechi – Omuoko – Omokiri – Link Road within Amaechi’s Local Government Area. So, the attack would have been brought more […]

By Emmanuel Aziken When news portals on Thursday broke the ‘news’ of the return of Adamu Mu`azu to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it immediately set a frenzy as to the ways and manners of one of Nigeria’s ‘sharpest’ political actors. Welcomed as the game-changer as he stepped in as national chairman of the Peoples […]

When he first arrived the Senate in 2007, Senator Smart Adeyemi won a nickname among some Senate correspondents as Man of God. He was so described on account of his revulsion at the state of things in the polity and even in the Senate. It was said that when senators gathered privately to discuss issues […]

Friends and charitable foes must be pitying the lot of Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s minister of information and tormentor in chief, first of Dr Goodluck Jonathan and subsequently of Dr Bukola Saraki. When Yekini Nabena, who was in the shadows in the heyday of Lai’s activism, decided to take on Lai and rubbish his contributions to […]

At the time he died last Thursday, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, LKJ was undoubtedly the role model for good governance with legacies spread around Lagos. So impactful was his touch on society that ahead of the 1983 election that those plotting to rig the election in some Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN controlled states knew […]

By Emmanuel Aziken How Mesut Ozil despite his past fantastic contributions to the Arsenal side was frozen out of the team in 2020/21 is still the subject of much debate. Even at its nadir a few months back when Arsenal were about romancing the relegation waters, Ozil was still kept out of the side. The […]

By Emmanuel Aziken After dithering procrastination the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has pledged to commence the planned validation and registration of party members next week. Ever since the plan was first revealed last year it has remained a source of acrimony among party members struggling over the soul of the party. […]

By Emmanuel Aziken The inauguration of Senator Joseph Biden as the 46th president of the United States of America came at a momentous point in the history of the country. It came when a plague with a yet controverted pathway was ravishing the country. So remarkable has been the COVID-19 pandemic that for his inauguration, […]

By Emmanuel Aziken Early results from Thursday’s presidential election in Uganda showed President Yoweri Museveni in early lead. The lead by the president was, however, no cheer most people, especially victims of his 35-year iron grip on his nation. A nation once enriched by the flavour of Africa’s rich tradition, Uganda has been worsened by […]