By Emmanuel Aziken Given the simplicity of his 2015 campaign agenda, it was so difficult to pin the 2015 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Muhammadu Buhari on any commitment on economic specificities. His mantra was that he was going to handle security, economy, and corruption. Now whether it was going to be […]

By Emmanuel Aziken United States (US) President, Donald Trump, on Thursday night brought the Republican National Convention to a close with a rousing speech that focused on the nearly 50 years of public service of his Democratic Party rival, Joe Biden. The speech was preceded by the controversy over the prospect of delivering a clearly […]

“If truly these shops were locked for not having proper and legal documents, that is evidence of their Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) registration, I think we can’t blame the Ghana government but rather our people. They should obey the laws that guide the country they are in.” — Mr Alli Abolore, Engineer. “In as […]

By Emmanuel Aziken There is no question as to the fact that no governorship election in the history of Edo State has been as unpredictable and tension packed as the one scheduled for September 19, 2019. The two major candidates, Governor Godwin Obaseki and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the […]

By Emmanuel Aziken The bold confession of Aliyu Umar that he chained his 12-year-old son in an animal stall with goats with whom the lad fed and lived with for two years must have shocked many. Given the oddity in it, Umar was expected to have denied his act. But he justified his action on the […]

By Emmanuel Aziken It is an irony that Edo State is having the dirtiest election campaign in the history of the state despite having two otherwise refined gentlemen as governorship candidates of the two major parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC. Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a provincial pastor of the […]

Given the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari has been widely perceived as taciturn and aloof, it is remarkable that at the heart of the engine room of his private political machine was until recently, a troika of newspapermen. The troika is what many Nigerians have referred to as the cabal that has been repeatedly described […]

By Emmanuel Aziken The evolving drama from the probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was not unexpected given the dynamics that played out at the establishment of the commission exactly 20 years ago. The NDDC was conceived by President Olusegun Obasanjo. It was one of the first two bills he brought to the […]

By Emmnuel Aziken Senator Godswill Akpabio will this weekend be reflecting on the uncommon bump that has recently rocked his political stability. Not since 2002 when he began his uninterrupted fairytale political adventure has Akpabio been smacked in the way he was by the Port Harcourt Girl! As Governor Nyesom Wike confessed on Thursday after […]

By Emmanuel Aziken The narrative about the job of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC being a poisoned chalice is one that flows from the disastrous end of the stewardship of all occupants of that position to date. That the stewardships of Nuhu Ribadu, Farida Waziri, Ibrahim Lamorde, and Ibrahim Magu […]