S/AFRICA: A bond that must never be broken (3)
By Femi Fani-Kayode Permit me to offer a history lesson and share a few facts with Minister Khumbudzo Tshaveni about who and what we are as a nation and the contributions and sacrifices that we made for the emancipation of her people all in the name of Pan-Africanism.Ours is a great and proud nation of […]
Edo 2016: Time for Edo APC to close ranks
Signals emanating from supporters of the Edo State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prince Anselm Ojezua and supporters of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie Oyegun are not soothing as we approach the crucial September 10 governorship poll.
Ndigbo: Why Joe Igbokwe’s Self-Enslavement Worries Me
In his well published diatribe against the Igbo people of Nigeria, Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, who is also a son of Igbo, poured invectives on the Igbo nation while making spurious allegations against them.
Osoba @77: The ‘recurrent comeback kid’
ON Sunday April 3, 2016, a most momentous event took place at the Bourdillion, Ikoyi residence of Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former two time governor of Ogun State. In attendance were the leading lights of current progressive politics in the South West and indeed Nigeria that were instrumental to midwifing an opposition party that electorally took over power from a ruling party since 1999. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, a host of sitting governors and their representatives and other diehard progressives all converged in the house of Osoba with a singular aim: Bring Back Osoba into APC.
Abia governorship: How Uche Ogah won
On 27 June 2016, the Federal High Court, Abuja ruled on a two year old case instituted by Mr Uche Ogah in 2014 which was based on the fact that Mr. Okezie Ikpeazu never qualified to run in the 2014 gubernatorial primaries of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) because he (Ikpeazu) failed to pay his taxes as required by law. In his judgment, Okon Abang ordered the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately issue a certificate of return to Mr. Uche Oga as Governor-elect, a directive which INEC has complied with.
Abia and the flip-side of ambition
WE all are witnesses to this fact: our teachers, right from kindergarten, advise us to be ambitious. They consistently hand out that counsel as a mantra of life, with less talk on the flip-side of ambition – the inordinate ambition. There is no doubt that Uche Ogah, the main protagonist in the failed Abia civilian coup, heeded his teachers’ counsel. He is a very ambitious man
