By Donu Kogbara TWO videos are doing the rounds in numerous online fora. One features Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, the spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, saying (at a public lecture last year, apparently) that his region possesses the numerical strength to determine who will follow President Muhammadu Buhari and that “the heavens will not […]

By Donu Kogbara WHEREVER I go nowadays – social gatherings, work events, etc – I ask the people I meet which of the many presidential aspirants they prefer; and the answer is almost always “Osinbajo or Peter Obi”. And though some of those I have spoken to say that they don’t find Obi/Osinbajo as particularly […]

By Donu Kogbara THE nation is heading towards primaries at which every political party will select its presidential candidate (the Independent National Electoral Commission – INEC – has decreed that this selection process must be completed by early June). Last week, I focused on the most senior presidential hopeful, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (who had […]

By Donu Kogbara NOBODY can deny that Professor Farooq Kperogi, an outspoken US-based media scholar and newspaper columnist, is an excellent writer. His impressive mastery of the English language is rare, even within the context of a journalistic realm that is full of talented scribes. Kperogi also happens to be a brave, impudent, premier league […]

By Donu Kogbara LAST week, I complained about the “dangerous docility” that the average Nigerian displays in the face of the never-ending problems our leaders foist on us. My view was that if the majority refuses to tolerate bad governance, leaders who serve us badly will either be compelled to up their games or be booted […]