Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release
When the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that President Bola Tinubu had constituted an eleven‑man committee to develop a National Threat Assessment and a Strategic Defence Operations Plan within ninety days, with about four months to the general elections, several things struck me even before I reached the substance of the directive.
You can’t take Nigeria to any level with plagiarised copy, paste plan – Reno
My attention has been drawn to the fact that the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization has been established to have plagiarized their campaign agenda and logo titled Next Level, from a thesis authored by on Kelly Costner, an Associate Professor of Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA. What will Garba Shehu, Audu Ogbeh say against Atiku? […]
NEMA: Between Reps and fake news
The era of fake news is here again. I recalled I jumped out of my seat when the House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness stated that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) abandoned about 6,779metric tons of rice donated by the Chinese government for distribution to Internally Displaced Persons in the North East.
Buratai’s poisonous arrows on insurgents
In the Art of War, famous Chinese war veteran, Sun Tzu said; “The General is the safeguard of the state. If the safeguard is complete, the state is surely strong. If the safeguard is flawed, the state is surely weak…He looks upon the troops as his children. Thus they can venture into deep river valleys with him. He looks upon the troops as his beloved sons. Thus they can die together with.”
Shehu Sani’s cracked mirror
One of the greatest and terrible fallouts from the rise of Trumpism is the penchant for the cloning and replication of copycats across the globe, individuals that are deluded enough to believe they can replicate the wonder of rising from relative obscurity to winning elections. The tragedy is that some of them are succeeding. Trumpism, […]
Re-engineering the old order
IF Ebonyi state was perceived in recent past to be on the path of sustainable growth and development, all of that tanked with the emergence of incumbent governor David Nweze Umahi three years ago. The peace loving people of Ebonyi have thus been forced to endure Umahi’s style of governance that has set backwards the development clock of the state. It is therefore not surprising that from Abakiliki the state capital and literally across the 13 local government areas of the state, the general consensus is one of change; a change in face of governance in the state that has enslaved the people like the biblical Israelites in their years of torment in Pharoah’s Egypt. Like the biblical voice crying out in the wilderness however, it appears with the emergence of Senator Sonni Ogbuoji, as the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state, the cries of the people have reached the stable of God, hence an honest man with unquestionable integrity, Sonni Ogbuoji has come to the rescue.
