The curious case of Gbaja and the Prince, by Rotimi Fasan
If presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga is to be believed, the so called director, Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew, of a so called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council or PFIPC should appear in court in about three weeks from now. That is on July 27 to answer multiple charges of impersonation and forgery. The issue centres around one […]
A fraudulent leadership
THE video recording didn’t look staged and the little girl’s outburst also sounded credible. In this age of social media when everyone has become a performer determined to drive attention in their direction, it makes sense not to take everything one sees at face value. But so far, nothing has happened to make anyone question the authenticity of the little girl’s ranting bout as one made for the cameras.
Nigerian electorate are talking; are the politicians listening?
JUST the morning after the governorship and state assembly elections, it had become clear that Nigerian voters might have found their voice and are beginning to talk. All too often Nigerians are urged to vote as their vote is supposed to be the means through which they demonstrate their power of choice. But many times the voice of the voter hardly counts. The norm in the last 20 years of the country’s return to democratic practice or civil governance, if it would seem too optimistic to describe what we’ve had until now as democracy, has been for the voice of the people to be stolen.
2019 elections: The thing about tension between Yoruba and Igbo
IN a national election that in the main featured two Fulani politicians as presidential candidates, the Yoruba and Igbo are again at loggerheads, locking horns over a matter that some would say at best makes them meddlesome busybodies and mere bystanders. The tension between the Yoruba and the Igbo which is the fallout of the February 23 elections reflects the age-long political fault lines between the two largest ethnic groups from the southern parts of Nigeria. Dog eat s—t, na goat mout’ dey smell!
The 2019 general elections- and the recriminations and counter-recriminations continue
THE Presidential and Nationals Assembly elections held on February 23 against the background of fears and speculations that they would again be postponed. They were to have held a week earlier before Mahmood Yakubu, the chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission, announced they had been postponed just a couple hours before the polls were to open.
The disgrace that was the postponed February 16 elections
THE Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has once more demonstrated for the whole world to see just how incompetent we could be as a people. The electoral body that had spent the better part of the last one year preparing for the 2019 general elections, comprising the presidential and National Assembly elections, called off the elections within a couple of hours before the polls were due to open.
