Tinubu’s brain versus Obi’s brain
By Onu Onwe The soapbox is a tempting platform. The politician and other users of it who utilize it to deliver an opinion may be seduced by the spontaneity it offers to say that which may be out of sync with their actual reasoning or intention. That is why the soapbox is a dangerous place […]
NDDC Crisis: Between Powerful Ogbuku, reformist Lauretta Onochie
For weeks now, the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Samuel Ogbuku, has sought every means possible, including a court ruling, to undermine the roles and powers of the Chairman of the agency’s board, Lauretta Onochie.
Ways by which we can strengthen our democracy
By CHIEDU OKOYE NIGERIA, as a country, has not got it right politically. And that is the chief reason our country is still trapped in the morass of economic and technological backwardness. Is there not a nexus between the quality of political leadership obtainable in a country and that country’s level of national development? The […]
Of prophets, prophecies and endorsements
By ‘Yinka Adeosun AFEFETIFE, asìtirífùròadìye transliterated to mean: “The wind has blown, we can now see the rump of the hen”. With the successful inauguration of the new administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the coast is clear to name and shame the prophets and nay-sayers who prophesied and foresaw darkness and gloom on this […]
Did Buhari lose weight in eight years?
By Banji Ojewale A new race of men is springing up to govern the nation; they are the hunters after popularity, men ambitious…the demagogues, whose principles hang laxly upon them, who follow not so much what is right as what leads to a temporary vulgar applause — Joseph Story (1779-1845), American Judge LET’s be guided […]
Ndiomu, PAP and sustainable legacy
By THOMAS PERETU THE much-anticipated inauguration of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Cooperative Society Limited, Pacosol, may have come and gone but the ripples of excitement generated by the event is still reverberating in the media space. While the news of the new trajectory championed by Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd) resonates with men of […]
