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, […]
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.
What will Garba Shehu, Audu Ogbeh say against Atiku?
It is the opinion of some that Mallam Garba Shehu is still held with suspicion in the inner circle of the cabal around President Muhammadu Buhari. That is despite the fact that he is undoubtedly one of the finest media managers of the fourth republic.
The new narrative in Enugu
The discord and drama that once trailed relationships between governors and their predecessors in Enugu State seem to have been buried and it is no surprise that the incumbent governor seems to be drawing applause from friends and foes of his political platform.
The political lies that killed Citizen Khorsa
Nigeria’s leading political actors were all about in the outgoing week projecting themselves and seemingly rewriting history. It was, however, a different matter for the majority of the apolitical class.
The political trials of the tailor’s son
Loyalty is one of the most abused words in the vocabulary of the Nigerian political class.
Kingibe:The man who ate his cake and kept it
One of the selling points used to market the political aspiration of President Muhammadu Buhari in the past was the claim that he was not the run of the mill politician.
Politicians, principles and pursuit of pragmatism
Not many in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP were able to get at the skin of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government as Prince Dayo Adeyeye did between 2015 and 2016.
Why your legislator is a mace snatcher
Last Wednesday’s mace snatching incident is the first recorded event of such in either of the two chambers of the National Assembly. However, similar incidents of mace snatching are not strange to State Houses of Assembly where political theatrics sometimes turn to physical exchange of blows by legislators.
Political devaluation of the Nigerian life
The inept reaction of the PDP opposition, however, does not justify the disgusting dissonance on the part of the APC administration and its propagandists to the miserable conditions of the girls
Good lessons from Edo State
Governor Godwin Obaseki understandably, would not want to see himself as a champion of the controversial but yet constructive proposal to prohibit grazing, especially given the fact that senior officials of the APC administration in Abuja have kicked against it
