Tinubu’s daughter roars as his Lagos empire quakes, by Emmanuel Aziken
Just a week ago, your correspondent quietly and perhaps discreetly painted a picture of the emerging problems President Bola Tinubu is facing in his Lagos political base, using the drama around Nollywood actor and lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, as a window into the unfolding tension. The Desmond Elliot story helped to show how the President has, over time, […]
Chibok girls: Between Jonathan’s jests and Buhari’s banters
By Emmanuel Aziken There are indeed, few incidents that have defined the relationship between Nigerian leaders and the citizenry as the Chibok Girls affair that happened on us, six years ago. The kidnap of 276 girls from their school by the brutish jihadists was provoking enough to have stirred the passions of many world figures, […]
Has Buhari become lame duck?
By Emmanuel Aziken It is shocking that even with more than three years to run in his second term, that there are insinuations that President Muhammadu Buhari has become a lame duck. A lame-duck is an elected political office holder whose successor has been or will soon be chosen. It is a particularly remarkable period […]
Keep your salaries, return the Camry cars
By Emmanuel Aziken The global coronavirus pandemic has seemingly struck the chord of charity among Nigeria’s ruling class. The members of the House of Representatives said this week that they would donate two months’ salary to the COVID-19 relief efforts. As with everything money concerning the National Assembly, the donation is dogged in secrecy and […]
Buhari’s ‘problems’ with coronavirus
By Emmanuel Aziken The news that a daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari was in isolation following a recent trip to the United Kingdom put many newspaper editors in a quandary. Identifying the particular lady in quarantine was an issue. That was because the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, who proactively informed Nigerians of the development, […]
Dr. Bola Tinubu’s diagnosis of coronavirus
By Emmanuel Aziken Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s political acumen has been much extolled by his many political devotees. However, whether any one of them would subject himself to the medical diagnosis of a Dr. Tinubu garbed as a medical doctor or take his prescriptions for an ailment is an issue. As Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s political future […]
Political Notes: If Oshiomhole survives
By Emmanuel Aziken The outlook for Comrade as at press time was quite cloudy. Adams Oshiomhole, who had in the past bragged about effortlessly burying political godfathers, was grasping for survival in the face of trenchant opposition to him remaining as chairman of the country’s ruling party. The determined adversaries rubbed it home last Thursday […]
The contradictions in Mallam Nasir El-Rufai
By Emmanuel Aziken When Mallam Nasir El-Rufai recently told a Vanguard reporter that it would be untenable for a Northerner to aspire for the presidency in 2023, he again projected his well-known doggedness to principle. That doggedness was shaped decades ago, and sometimes, at great personal cost. In the early 90s, being one of the […]
Gbajabiamila’s exotic house
There are indeed few Nigerians who are unfamiliar with the exotic, nay, glamorous inclination of Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila when it comes to appreciating valour, love, and patience.
Gbajabiamila’s exotic house
By Emmanuel Aziken There are indeed few Nigerians who are unfamiliar with the exotic, nay, glamorous inclination of Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila when it comes to appreciating valour, love, and patience. Gbajabiamila aptly showed that as a third-term member of the House of Representatives in 2018, when he gifted his lovely and adorable wife, an exotic […]
What happened to Odili?
By Emmanuel Aziken The attacks on Justice Mary Odili following the judgment on the Bayelsa State governorship election may have reawakened public awareness of one of the most veritable political players at the onset of the fourth republic, H.E. Dr Peter Odili. How time flies. If political permutations and money were the principal factors in […]
What happened to Odili?
The attacks on Justice Mary Odili following the judgment on the Bayelsa State governorship election may have reawakened public awareness of one of the most veritable political players at the onset of the fourth republic, H.E. Dr. Peter Odili.
How APC blew Bayelsa away
David Lyon would have today been one day in office as governor of Bayelsa State, but for the twist of fate that played on him two days ago.
Political Notes: State of our union
By Emmanuel Aziken The defining point for many as the United States President, Donald Trump, delivered his State of the Union address came at the end when Speaker Nancy Pelosi took three different batches of the speech and tore them into two! For Nigerians, the comparison could have been the case of Senator Bukola Saraki […]
State of our union
The defining point for many as President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address came at the end when Speaker Nancy Pelosi took three different batches of the speech and tore them into two!
The coming rebellion by Buhari’s men
By Emmanuel Aziken For a National Assembly whoseleadership was configured to fit the image and body language of President Muhammadu Buhari, the quivers that emerged on resumption from the yuletide break this week were remarkable. Not too long ago, Senate President Ahmad Lawan and his deputy, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, had shocked stakeholders with their unpretentious […]
