State goodwill: When Julius Takeme’s silence and the ripples are structurally debated
By ENEWARIDIDEKE EKANPOU Silence is golden. This is a universal affirmation often appropriated metaphorically like a roadside pepper to suit any situation, however uncanny it looks. Golden as silence is, it is also disastrous — sowing seeds of fruitless allegations of maladministration, corruption, unaccountability, fund mismanagement and developmental incapability and aridity targeted at Burutu Council. This […]
Will politics of blackmail help Nigeria?
SINCE Boko Haram started in Nigeria around 2009, fear and blackmail have remained the main planks for their growth, and expansion. Politicians, especially those from the north, birthed and nurtured violence, in the name of Boko Haram as an instrument of blackmail in order to wrest power from the hands of the South of Nigeria. These men, as experienced and knowledgeable as they are in Nigerian politics, think that the killings would force Nigerians to give them power
Re: Why North should support Jonathan
IN a recent article of the above title written by an analyst from Kano, one Mohammed Abdulkadir, he related compelling and mutually beneficial reasons why the North, particularly the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elite in the north will support the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan, and urged for a rapprochement between the Northern power elite and the present and future leaders of the South-South zone.
This politics of performance
IT is preposterous to argue that President Goodluck Jonathan has shown the world that performance is the focal point, the pivot, the driving force of politics. Performance is the strength of Jonathan’s transformation magic.
Soyinka’s demonisation of Jonathan
IN a feat of acerbic verbal tantrums, Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka Tuesday December 2, attacked President Goodluck Jonathan and likened the Nigerian leader to Nebuchadnezzar the biblical autocrat and king of Babylon who initially denounced the Living Supreme God. Soyinka who addressed a press conference on the state of the nation at the popular Freedom Garden in Lagos, said that Jonathan is tyrannical because the Inspector General of Police Suleiman Abba stopped the attempt by the defected speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal to enter the Green Chamber of the National Assembly with thugs.
Safety tips as APC holds Presidential Primaries in Lagos
The main political issue today is the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) taking place at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos, where the Presidential candidate of the main opposition party for the 2015 elections will emerge — Muhammed Buhari, Abubakar Atiku and Sam Nda Isaiah are in the race even as an unconfirmed report claimed Rabiu Kwankwaso and Rochas Okorocha would step down.
