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.
Jonathan and the Ribadu report
It is so unfortunate that there has been so much ignorant carping and malicious tittle-tattling about the report of the Petroleum Revenue Task Force chaired by Malam Nuhu Ribadu, both failings arising from a deliberate attempt to individualize what was actually group work, a mischievous attempt to politicize one report out of three, and to smuggle into an emergent grand web of conspiracy, elements of blackmail, mischief and outright opportunism.
APGA saga: Matters arising
CRSIS, if one must reiterate, remains inescapable and inevitable in any human socio-political activity; it’s somewhat a natural phenomenon with some dickers of functionality attached to it.
On the nation’s perennial fuel scarcity
IT is saddening and a paradox that a nation that is richly endowed with abundant human as well as natural resources, such as crude oil, could be in dire need of what is supposed to be a blessing.
Nigeria entertainment industry in perspective
IT is only a die-hard cynic that will discredit the role our entertainment industry has played and is still playing in the country.
Between Abia, an ex-governor and wisdom
SINCE the return of democracy in the country in 1999, most of the elected governors in the South-South and South East zones succeeded in securing a second term themselves in office, except Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju of Anambra State who was denied by his party and Chief Dipreye Alamaesiagha of Bayelsa State who was removed from office before the end of his second term in office over corruption charges.
