Atiku’s Desperation and Tinubu’s Panic, by Emmanuel Aziken
When Atiku Abubakar reinvented his stance on fuel subsidy in mid-August, it was no surprise that the Presidency launched an all-out campaign against him. The former vice-president was painted as a desperado who would say anything in what Villa critics called a naked bid for Aso Rock in 2027. Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s information […]
And Chelsea FC: When bad coaches take charge
By Emmanuel Aziken The comprehensive 4-0 defeat of one of the world’s most esteemed football clubs, Chelsea FC by Real Madrid in the Champions League tournament indeed resonates with the fate and misfortunes of Nigeria. Chelsea in the last year topped in the footballers’ spending market, expending $305 million in the transfer market. That was […]
Yahaya Bello: When a Lion moves with power and subtility
By Emmanuel Aziken The primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC to choose a flag bearer for the party in the November governorship election in Kogi State was ongoing as at press time yesterday. Though the result of the election was yet to be declared, what was incontrovertible was the fact that the man who […]
May God bless Obasanjo
By Emmanuel Aziken President Olusegun Obasanjo’s enduring imprint in the Nigerian story again came to the fore this week in two different interventions. In the first instance it emerged that the former Nigerian leader had intervened in the sorry case of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife who were recently convicted along with a Nigerian […]
Comma in the caution from DSS
By Emmanuel Aziken The Department of State Services, DSS trended this week after the internal police issued a statement of caution over an alleged plot by some political actors to install an interim government. The DSS in the statement said it had identified the political actors involved and went further to insinuate the stages that […]
The joy in Abia and the gloom in Nigeria
By Emmanuel Aziken The landscape in Abia State burst out in unbridled expression of joy last Wednesday evening after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC finally declared the outcome of the governorship election in the state. The joy was so effusive that even the outgoing state governor, Dr Okeize Ikpeazu under whose name some folks […]
