Can Tinubu dvice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Tinubu’s extraordinary intervention in the freezing of an Osun State Government account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has brought into sharp relief a question that has increasingly shadowed his presidency: who exactly acts in the President’s name, and how much of what is done around him carries his prior knowledge and approval? […]
Yes, the world is watching Buhari and our lawmakers
President Muhammadu Buhari’s assertion to unruly legislators last Wednesday that the world was watching them was one of the most poignant utterances from him in recent times.
Why APC ‘Bastards’ are not reconciling
Only few would have been shocked by Mr. Adebayo Shittu’s claim that he would be a bastard to be seen supporting his party’s candidate in the 2019 governorship election in Oyo State.
When Mbaka blessed Obi
If anyone needed proof of the damage politics has done to the spiritual orientation of Nigerians, the recent encounter between Father Ejike Mbaka and Mr. Peter Obi would certainly be a good referral.
When a monarch refuses to be gagged
The true story of the dramatic encounter between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Ibn Garbai Elkanemi in Maiduguri last Wednesday took almost 48 hours to seep out.
Akpabio, Chime and the 16 years of PDP
It was understandable that a photograph of Senator Godswill Akpabio and the two living former presidents of the fourth republic, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo at the wedding of Mr. Timi Alaibe’s daughter two weeks ago would captivate social media commentators.
Issues from the Muslim-Muslim strategy in Kaduna
When and how President Muhammadu Buhari sanctioned Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s bid for a Muslim-Muslim governorship ticket in Kaduna State will be an issue for those who project the president as a non-partisan leader.
2019: Messy battle between facts and fake news
Chief Audu Ogbeh’s middle name is Innocent and it was remarkable that he was for long, revered for a kind of innocence that could not be seen in the everyday politician. However, his latter day innocence is now the subject of political interrogation.
Our politicians’ problems with WAEC
It was inevitable that Wednesday’s arraignment of Senator Ademola Adeleke over allegations of malpractise during the last National Examination Council, NECO examination would be seen as another spinoff of the anti-corruption war of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The stigma at the NHIS
The sight of dozens of policemen escorting the executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prof. Usman Yusuf across protesting workers of the agency, into his office last Monday, may become a defining point for the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The political value of a Nigerian life
The dangers inherent in journalism are brutally being conveyed to the whole world by the unfolding developments around the disappearance of the missing Saudi journalist, Jammal Khashoggi. Khashoggi was reportedly dismembered in his country’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey earlier this month. He was killed on account of his sensitive commentaries that apparently did not put the Saudi government in good light.
