DSS arrests of NYSC kidnappers, Faisal Maina: Why intelligence must take centre stage
By Olufemi Lawson The recent arrest of five suspected kidnappers linked to the abduction of 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members, alongside the arrest of fugitive Faisal Maina, represents a significant achievement by the Department of State Services (DSS) and a welcome development in Nigeria’s fight against insecurity. Beyond the arrests themselves, these […]
When OBJ became Buhari’s forerunner
I HAVE always been one of those who pooh-poohed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar anytime he sought to curry public sympathy over the manner in which his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, harassed him with investigations, in desperate bids to shoot down his political career.
But like Malam Nuhu Ribadu, I guess I have to apologise to Atiku, not because I think he is clean as a whistle as he wants us to believe, but because I now believe that his former boss was unfair to him.
Tarzoor: Return of the native
SINCE 1999, Benue State has been a core PDP state. The people always cast their vote en mass in all elections for the largest political party in Africa. Indeed it was in recognition of this that Benue State had produced two national chairmen of PDP and other sensitive positions in the party’s apparatchik.
The change we need
UP until the mid eighties, the million was seen as an almost invincible attainment. A judge of the calibrer of Ovie Whiskey, who had served many years on the Bench and reached the peak of his career as a Chief Judge of the entire Bendel state, claimed thus; “If I see a million naira cash, I will faint”. That shows the value to which money was placed in the good old days.
The dilemma of neo-Buharists
THERE are two kinds of Buharists: The Classic Buharists and the Neo-Buharists. The Classic Buharists genuinely love Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. To them, he is the epitome of a true leader. They truly believe he is all they say he is. They think he is not corrupt and that he is even incorruptible. Their devotion to the man they like to call the “People’s General” is total; bordering on worship. No contrary argument can burst their bubble. In fact, you dare to persuade them that Gen. Buhari is not the man they think him to be at your peril. Violence, verbal and/or physical, comes natural to them when they think you denigrate GMB.
Fashola on Buhari: Age is More Than Just a Number
The most amazing thing happened Thursday. Amazing, because in a rare Freudian slip, the Governor of Lagos state, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola revealed what he really thought about old people in governance. Splashed on the Front Page of The Tribune on Thursday the 15th of January, 2015 was the headline ‘Agbaje too Old to Rule Lagos’.
