Can Tinubu Advice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have intended to offer straightforward governance advice when he urged state governors to focus less on grand infrastructure projects and more on addressing the immediate needs of ordinary Nigerians. Instead, his remarks may have ignited a much broader conversation, not only about governors’ priorities but also about the Federal Government’s own choices. The […]
PDP’s ‘Delinquent’ children mock, by Emmanuel Aziken
Pity the lot of Nigeria’s once formidable Peoples Democratic Party as it today wriggles in death throes. Given its well-known reputation as a bad mother, it is no surprise that some of the children of the PDP who rose to prominence on the platform have been quick to disown the party. Even worse, to poke […]
Edo: How APC, PDP trample on people’s health, by Emmanuel Aziken
The sad commentary of political actors mortgaging good governance for the accumulation of political power has been the bane of Nigeria’s development. But that politicians would after trampling on the integrity of the nation’s democracy also subjugate the physical well-being of the citizenry to their intrigues is indeed befuddling. Unfortunately, Edo State in the immediate past and […]
Nwoko and Nwaoboshi: Old rivals resume war in APC, by Emmanuel Aziken
Senator Ned Nwoko representing Delta North Senatorial District has triggered a bitter fight in the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta North Senatorial District with his long time political sparring partner and immediate predecessor in the Senate, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi. Given the inclinations of the two men no one expects the clash to be a […]
Understanding the changed loyalties between Tinubu and Sanusi, by Emmanuel Aziken
It was the founding chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie who in 2003 summarised the crisis that followed the kidnapping of Governor Chris Ngige by his erstwhile Anambra godfathers as what happens when thieves come to share their loot. Some would, however, think it inappropriate to condense the crisis between President […]
A Foreigner as NFF President Please! By Emmanuel Aziken
Perhaps nothing better reflects the despair of Nigerians than the decision of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF to hire the former Mali international Eric Chelle as coach for the Super Eagles. In a country that has progressed in error across many sectors and languished on account of the many divisions in the polity, it is still […]
Real reason Obi’s friends are afraid, by Emmanuel Aziken
Coming just after a visit to General Ibrahim Babangida, Mr Peter Obi at an early morning press conference on Thursday latched onto President Bola Tinubu in a way he has refrained from since the last presidential election campaign. It was easy to speculate that the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate may have been emboldened by […]
Naomi: Our queen as their Scapegoat, by Emmanuel Aziken
It is doubtful that the families of the deceased would be interested in a case against Naomi
Okpebholo very wrong on Obaseki’s babies, by Emmanuel Aziken
One of the most distressing acts in the suppression of democratic expression since the advent of the Fourth Republic was the inconsiderate lock-out of 14 elected members of the Edo State House of Assembly in 2019. After winning their elections in the 2019 General Election, the 14 elected members were refused inauguration in an egregious […]
Okpebholo and Obahiagbon: The politics of grammar in Edo State
From the celebrated verbal excursions of the irrepressible Patrick Obahiagbon to the controversial grammatical gaffes of Governor Monday Okpebholo, Edo State has seemingly gone full circle. But should we care? The latest gaffe by Governor Okpebholo which saw him stutter over figures while delivering his 2025 budget address to the State House of Assembly on […]
Ibori’s defection and the storm ahead in Delta, by Emmanuel Aziken
The defection of five members of the House of Representatives from the opposition to the All Progressives Congress, APC has inevitably consolidated the position of the ruling party in the polity. The APC which started as a minority in the House of Representatives has by the serial defections of seemingly politically spineless Labour and Peoples […]
