The seeming contradiction flows from Ekweremadu’s survival and successes in the system he is now criticising. Indeed, among the few politicians who have survived the bumpy theatrics that have been characteristic of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, few would have stories to tell like Ekweremadu.

By Emmanuel Aziken Devotees of wild life television programmes know very well the hatred lions have for hyenas and jackals. It is that deep-seated mutual animosity that First Lady Aisha Buhari and Senator Shehu Sani drew on to illustrate the seemingly bestial inclination of the Nigerian political class. Hyenas and jackals move in packs and […]

Anyone wondering why the authorities in Abuja find it difficult to give Nigeria the required leadership should also consider the imperious inclinations of many of those in authority over smaller jurisdictions.

Just three years ago the imagination of Obong Godswill Akpabio playing second fiddle in the affairs of Akwa Ibom State seemed a near impossibility.

Some of the graduates delightfully introduced themselves by inserting OLUSEGUN as their middle name; a moving expression of their eternal loyalty to the former president

The story is told of how in the heat of the Obasanjo – Atiku feud in 2007 that the Gombe State government pulled down the roof of the Presidential Lodge in Gombe upon news that Atiku was coming to the state to campaign

The revelation that President Muhammadu Buhari for the second time in as many weeks did not appear for the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC last Wednesday, had been set to upstage every other news item for the day and the coming weekend.

It really goes far to say why Nigeria has not progressed much as a country

It is also noteworthy that the royal remonstration came from a person of the stature of Emir Sanusi who at that function claimed that the host and accidental public servant, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai makes him look like a moderate

The work to rule action employed by the Senate in its dealings with the presidency is the latest in the on-again-off-again love affair between the two branches of the Federal Government.

There have been numerous known attempts to physically kill Olusegun Obasanjo. There have also been innumerable attempts by haters to politically annihilate the man who is widely acknowledged as the luckiest Nigerian ever.

The current scourge of the South African disease of xenophobia, as described by former television girl turned political operator, Abike Dabiri-Erewa may have again drawn attention to what some allege as a fault line in the working of the Nigerian legislature.

In the last 23 years, no fewer than 200 foreign nationals have been killed or maimed in xenophobic attacks in South Africa, an investigation by Sunday Vanguard revealed.The attacks, which mostly resulted in the death of immigrants, first occurred in 1994, the year South Africa had its first multi-racial election, which ended apartheid rule.

In his about 14 years as a politically exposed person, no one has been able to relate Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to any of the political intrigues that swirl around politicians, well until this week when the weather blew against him.

It is this great national institution that has lately been reduced to near irrelevance, not even able to voice its positions on national issues