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, […]
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 […]
