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.
30,000 polling units: JEGA’s contradictions and defiance
In his recent contradictory statements in the Guardian newspaper ofTuesday October 23, 2014, Professor Attahiru Jega appears intent upon fomenting conflict with his new polling unit allocations, which he appears besotted with irrespective of informed advice to the contrary from the Senate, security agencies, INEC Commissioners, and the political parties’ chairmen he sought their views at a meeting he convened. This is in addition to his defiance of an on-going matter in court instituted by a political party.
Buhari and the politics of fear mongering
FORMER military dictator and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, is continuing his trademark politics of bitterness, blackmail and fear mongering.
Oshiomhole’s recant leaves a sour taste
THE All Progressives Congress, APC, right from inception, has always battled to shed the toga of a party whose interest is mainly skewed in favour of the North and Muslim interests. Until the appointment- not election- of Odigie Oyegun to the position of Chairman, all of the principal officers were mainly Muslims. So, when a […]
Ode to our military leaders
THE year 2014 is a symbolic for Nigeria. This year the nation marked its Centenary – 100years since the amalgamation of the Nigerian nation.
NOI polls and a resurgent Jonathan
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has taken quite a few knocks. That is the unalloyed truth: Boko Haram, the Chibok girls abduction, an unenviable record as the first President in Nigeria to be dubbed “clueless” and a tendency to be unbelievably patient in the face of extreme provocation by supposed friends and foes alike. None of these things have served him well in recent times.
