It’s a straight fight between Jackson and AMBO, by Rotimi Fasan
The so-called off-cycle governorship election slated for August 15 in Osun State is billed to be a straight fight between the incumbent governor, the ever-ebullient, happy-go-lucky Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, and a former finance commissioner in the cabinet of Adeleke’s predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Munirudeen Oyebamiji, popularly called AMBO. He is an acolyte of the self-respecting, easy-going Gboyega […]
Nigeria’s elusive World Cup chase
It’s both a matter of shame and incredulity that in a country of about 200 million football-loving people, we cannot find eleven or at the very most twenty-two fully fit and talented men to represent us
Buhari’s stone that killed two birds
But who does not recognize the Buhari move for all it is worth as a political move? Show me that individual who does not see this move as also self-serving and political and you would have seen a fool
Buhari’s water bill as an act of corruption
Buhari’s water bill is a polarising document that can only serve to widen the gulf that has kept Nigeria as a country without a soul, a polity of about two hundred million people that is stuck in time
Buhari’s fight for corruption
Buhari just could not condemn Abacha or he would be indicting himself, condemning his own legacy of corruption through the PTF
EFCC’s new corporate headquarters: A monument to corruption
That edifice, although constructed to fight crime, is like a visual image of the humungous nature of crime and corruption in our land
