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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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ASUU and Abuja: ‘No  agreement today; no  agreement tomorrow’ (1)

ASUU and Abuja: ‘No agreement today; no agreement tomorrow’ (1)

NGOZI Okonjo-Iweala has two designations. She is Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy. Without intending to be perverse, I wonder what the differences are between both titles. What would a Finance Minister of a country such as ours be doing if she is not responsible (call it coordinating, managing, overseeing or whatever) for the entire economy?

Tony Anenih, Goodluck Jonathan and his trouble-making elders

Tony Anenih, Goodluck Jonathan and his trouble-making elders

SO Chief Tony Anenih, the BoT chair of the PDP, marked his eightieth birthday last week and provided President Goodluck Jonathan an opportunity he must have been craving to send some verbal missiles at those Nigerians he thought haven’t been particularly friendly to him and his administration.

Mummy Patience Jonathan, one wife too many (1)

Mummy Patience Jonathan, one wife too many (1)

YOU only get to see one even if there are many more living out of public glare in semi-retirement. We are talking here of executive wives, women married to men of means and ways- inflated balloons turned power houses by virtue of straying into the corridors of power either by the imposition of powerful brigands misnamed godfathers or rigged elections.