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 […]
From Pitch to Politics: War-torn Sudan’s 4-0 thrashing reveals Nigeria’s deeper rot, by Emmanuel Aziken
How war-torn Sudan, a country in the grip of two power-hungry generals, thrashed Nigeria 4-0 in the ongoing African Nations Championship (CHAN) underlines the deeper challenges that have stymied the development of Africa’s most populous country. Just as Nigeria is blessed with football talent, boasting arguably the highest number of professional footballers from the continent playing across […]
Why Tinubu is forgetful of Southeast, South-South, by Emmanuel Aziken
When, in the near future, political and other stakeholders from the Southeast gather to review the fate of the region in Nigeria’s geopolitical balance, many eyes will turn to Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu for explanations. As Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kalu is today the highest-ranking political officer from the Southeast, a position that confers […]
Tales of Betrayal and Aregbesola’s Difficult Task Against Tinubu, by Emmanuel Aziken
The acerbic attacks of Daniel Bwala at the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its triumphant 2023 presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, resurfaced this week as the political space again reflected on the fickleness of Nigerian politicians. In a social media post that has come to symbolise the mutability of Nigerian political actors, Bwala, who before the 2023 General […]
NOA’s Impossible Road To Heaven, by Emmanuel Aziken
Ever since the Ibrahim Babangida administration established the National Orientation Agency, NOA, in its last days, perhaps to reorient the narrative of its tragic decision to annul the June 12 election of 1993, the agency has gone through various administrations. Perhaps none of the heads of the agency may have succeeded as the present administration, shepherded […]
Peter Obi and the alliance of desperate candidates
By Emmanuel Aziken How the El-Rufai family jumped full circle from bashers of Peter Obi to his leading cheerleader in Northern Nigeria may not be directly linked to Nwakaego El-Rufai, wife of Bashir El-Rufai. The El-Rufai family, with Bashir in the lead, was not too long ago easily identified as the primary bashers of Peter […]
Can Atiku be trusted as President?, by Emmanuel Aziken
The death ofPresident Muhammadu Buhari penultimate Sunday has unarguably upended politicalpermutations over the 2027 political succession, putting Atiku Abubakar in anunprecedentedly favoured position. Though Buhariwas not expected to be on the ballot, his image was largely expected to weighseriously on the options open to his followers. The myth of the 12 millionvotes around Buhari had, however, been […]
Tinubu’s quiet pursuit of Buhari’s assets, by Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Tinubu was in Kano yesterday to condole with the family of the late Alhaji Aminu Dantata, who passed away in Abu Dhabi on June 28, 2025. Dantata, who was undoubtedly one of Nigeria’s most successful entrepreneurs, died in his good old age. He, poignantly, before his death, chose to be buried in Saudi Arabia, the […]
How Two Buhari aides married one Wife at the same time! By Emmanuel Aziken
The unveiling of the experiences of Mallam Garba Shehu in the political space as packaged in a book last Wednesday, was understandably graced by an incongruous audience. It couldn’t have been otherwise, given the paradoxical role the esteemed journalist and public relations expert has played in the course of a so far distinguished career. President Bola Tinubu […]
Tinubu’s first major political blunder, by Emmanuel Aziken
Just a week ago, President Bola Tinubu was hailed and nailed on this page over his score in his first two years in office as assessed by the 2023 Social Democratic Party, SDP, presidential candidate, Adewole Adebayo. Adebayo had in his assessment of the two years spent by Tinubu in power scored him an F9 in governance […]
Revisiting Tinubu’s F9, A1 results, by Emmanuel Aziken
The fine print of the agreement reconciling Governor Siminilayi Fubara of Rivers State and his estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike, was, as of press time, yet to be spelled out. It is, however, dead-on to say that the agreement came at a point in time that presidential historians may consider as the defining point in the Bola […]
