Can Tinubu Advice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have intended to offer straightforward governance advice when he urged state governors to focus less on grand infrastructure projects and more on addressing the immediate needs of ordinary Nigerians. Instead, his remarks may have ignited a much broader conversation, not only about governors’ priorities but also about the Federal Government’s own choices. The […]
People Talk: On closure of shops owned by Nigerians in Ghana (1)
“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 […]
The desperation of Oshiomhole, Ize-Iyamu, Obaseki
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 […]
Political Notes: Goat keepers all around Nigeria
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 […]
Pulling down the roof on Oshiomhole
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 […]
Can Mamman Daura recall the Kaduna mafia?
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 […]
