2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the substantive issues that confront them. There is nothing particularly wrong with that as long as such antics are within the ambit of the law. But most Nigerian politicians like […]
Buhari’s death threat matters
These are the times that try men’s souls” was Thomas Paine’s magnum opus in the winter of 1776.
The odds against Buhari on Saturday
LESS than 48 hours from now, Nigerians will elect a new president. There is, understandably, both excitement and anxiety in the air. Whichever way the election goes, its outcome will be consequential.
On Buhari, Obiano doesn’t get it
I waited this long before weighing in on the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano’s contrived face-off with the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, because I thought the story was a classic case of fake news. Obiano was alleged to have called Nwodo an idiot.
Buhari’s resort to self- help over Onnoghen
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a Nigerian not to be despondent these days. Unless he does not care that the country is in dire straits.
With Idris exit, Nigerians are breathing better
Today is exactly 30 days to the presidential and National Assembly elections on February 16, the first in a two-legged ballot that will end with the governorship and Houses of Assembly elections on March 2.
