Trump’s Letter, Atiku’s Lobbyists and old American stories about Tinubu, by Emmanuel Aziken
Politics is often less about the event itself than about the timing of the event. A document released today may have been written weeks earlier, but when it surfaces at a politically sensitive moment, it immediately acquires a meaning far beyond its contents. That is the context in which the recent exchange involving President Bola Tinubu, former […]
Why God does not attack governors with meningitis
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
When senators go on strike
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.
Obasanjo’s secret survival streak
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.
How South African xenophobia exposed Nigeria’s legislators
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.
S/AFRICA Xenophobic attacks: 200 foreigners killed, maimed since 1994 – Investigation
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.
The bad weather on Osinbajo’s way
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.
Why Ekwueme is weeping
It is this great national institution that has lately been reduced to near irrelevance, not even able to voice its positions on national issues
Why up NEPA is a chorus at APC National Secretariat
The hustle and bustle that in the past made the secretariat wear the aura of festivity were totally missing
What is the difference between PDP and APC?
The controversy surrounding the Rivers State Government-owned helicopters best exemplifies the saying that in politics there are no permanent positions, but permanent interests.
Rascality does not know party boundaries
When Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State cries of being a victim of alleged political contrivances weaved by agents and agencies of the Federal Government he ordinarily should win sympathy from us. It is after all, natural for victims of oppression to garner sympathy. However, when acolytes of the ‘oppressed,’
