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When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan

When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan

Considering the reaction of the main opposition parties’ leaders to the Independence Day speech of President Bola Tinubu, I think I’m beginning to see the lineaments of the campaign for the 2027 general election. The shape the campaigns would take is getting clear. This is why I’m returning once again to a theme I have […]
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Re: Death in the Mediterranean sea – Rose Moses

Re: Death in the Mediterranean sea – Rose Moses

Reading through your article in Vanguard of Saturday November 25, 2017 titled: “Death in the Mediterranean Sea” by Rose Moses? shows that the writer was obviously ignorant or deliberately mischievous in the submission.

Abdulrasheed Maina: The villain that would be a hero

Abdulrasheed Maina: The villain that would be a hero

There is a sense in which it has become clear that everyone within close distance of government now simply fishes for opportunity to defraud Nigerians; surely, Buhari has some explaining to do

Buhari, his endorsers and 2019

Buhari, his endorsers and 2019

IF we could call their brand of rulership governance, elected officials in Nigeria have just over four more weeks to do that. Thereafter they will give up the pretence that they are still interested in fulfilling their electoral promises and bringing the ‘dividends of democracy’ to the people.

Politics of Buhari’s re-election

Politics of Buhari’s re-election

THE signs get ever more evident that President Muhammadu Buhari is interested in being re-elected president in 2019. There is nothing wrong with this constitutionally. He is entitled to two terms in office, the Nigerian constitution says. That the question comes up at all owes much to the fact that until very recently very few people would have considered a Buhari presidency post-2019. The president had been ill for many months, taking no less than three so-called medical trips to the United Kingdom to seek medical attention even when Nigerians knew next to nothing about what ailed him.