Donald Duke: From Cross River record to PRP’s 2027 presidential gamble
Donald Duke is asking voters to reconsider an old proposition: that competence, institutional discipline and performance should matter more than political loyalty
Afenifere’s threat to secede from Nigeria: Open letter to Sultan of Sokoto
PRESIDENT Buhari’s silence and inaction on the issue of Fulani herdsmen seems to have poured petrol on the long smoldering embers of the Fulani menace in Nigeria. So there is a need to raise two questions: (a) Is Buhari’s inaction part of his Caliphate hidden agenda? (b) Is the Sultan of Sokoto, as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MACBAN, the cattle breeders association, not the Grand Patron of a criminal enterprise – an enterprise that uses, for its economic gain, the crimes of trespassing, destruction of other people’s property, kidnapping, arson, murder, ethnic cleansing etc.?
Issues in the MMIA, Port-Harcourt Airport rating
There has been mixed reactions in the aviation sector since SleepingInAirports.net, a travel website that reviews the best and worst airports in the world, rated the airports in Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos as the first, seventh and 10th worst respectively in Africa. The question many stakeholders have asked is how do you rate an airport undergoing repairs or remodeling.
Boko Haram: Finally, the end in sight?
It was a former Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah, who introduced the battle cry acronym, ‘Never Again’, in the Boko Haram terrorism narrative in Nigeria following the reinvigorated approach of the military to the war on terror which enabled the army he commanded to bounce back from its slumber and its Special Forces fought to retake several communities captured by the Islamic group.
Akwa Ibom and the question of progress
EVERY human being desires progress. Sometimes, the desire is an individual one. At other times, it is collective. When it is collective, it can be for the family, the village, an ethnic group or any other coalition of people with shared hopes and future.
I am not interested in politics – Kessinton Adebutu
Successful business magnate and owner of the popular Premier Lotto aka Baba Ijebu, Sir Kensington Adebutu recently clocked 80 years of age.
He however used the occasion to give back to the society through gift items at an event, which held with pomp and ceremony at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on Friday, 23 October. We used the opportunity to have a brief interview with the octogenarian, where he spoke about his business and other personal issues.
