Category: OPINION

By Chidi Amuta The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Mr. Bola Tinubu, has merely announced a longstanding intention. His naming of former Borno governor, Mr. Kashim Shettima, as his running mate confirms what is perhaps a long-conceived preference for a Muslim-Muslim ticket for his 2023 race. That preference is neither so original nor earth shaking. On the contrary, many are likely to see it as a mere cut and paste version of the MKO Abiola template in the June 12, 1992, presidential election. The Muslim-Muslim gamble worked for M.K.O Abiola…

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By Joseph Ibekwe It’s painful to see inconsistency demonstrated among those that ought to know better and provide leadership. It’s painful to have a people pray to God, asking for divine intervention and when the intervention comes, they despise it. It’s unfortunate that we ask that the will of God be done in our polity, yet as the will of God is unfolding before our eyes, we can’t perceive it. Early in the journey of this current transition, we were all agreed that we needed a Christian Presidential Candidate from…

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By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 28 November 1988 was a Monday. In Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), a Constituent Assembly inaugurated by military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida, had been in session for just over six months, since 11 May 1988. At the helm as its chair was Anthony Aniagolu, then a recently retired Justice of Nigeria’s Supreme Court. He was a Christian from Enugu State. His deputy was Muhammadu Buba Ardo, then Chief Judge of the Gongola State, who died suddenly in 1991, two years after the Assembly completed its work.…

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By Ohiri Patrick At a time Senator Uzodinma is yet to address the nation and explain the source of the Seven Hundred and Eighty Six Thousand Dollars ( $786, 000. 00) he spent on a wrist watch, killings, kidnap and arson, harassment of innocent citizens, non payment of salaries and pensions, flooding in major towns and villages of the state, collapse of Concorde Hotel, Heartland FC of Owerri was relegated to a lower league etc,  the desperation in pushing out conjured narratives with no basis in fact or truth does…

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Pa Ayo Adebanjo (left) and Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi By Emeka Alex Duru The recent endorsement on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi by Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has a lot in common with the support the former US President, Barack Obama, received from established American political dynasties in his march for the presidency in 2008. They were anchored on credible profiles and track records. The moment Obama received the approvals from even the ultra-conservative chieftains…

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By Festus Adedayo For those who watch the complicated Nigerian security mess from afar, the killing of Japanese ex-Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe in Nara, Japan last Tuesday and the ambushing, same day, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s advance convoy in Dutsinma, about 152 kilometres from his hometown of Daura, Katsina State, both speak to rising global insecurity. A few hours after on that same Tuesday, that joke went burst. Approximately three hours after shelling the president’s advance convoy with an assortment of bullets, killing two people in the process, around 10:00p.m., terrorists stormed the…

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By Obi Nwakanma On Wednesday, terrorists operating in Shiroro, Niger State, massacred numerous people, including about 42 Nigerian soldiers and policemen, and an unknown, unaccountable number of civilians at a mining site. Among those missing, according to certain media reports, are some Chinese. Just for context, the areas around the Shiroro Dam are where ISWAP fighters months ago mounted their flag, claiming them as their territory. The story of this attack seems to have very plainly justified their assertion of sovereign control over that part of Niger State, or any…

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By Ikenna Emewu Can someone please rein in Joe Igbokwe for medical attention? I am always shocked at how he exudes all this lunacy and heap insults on the Igbo for being appointed an assistant on gutters in Lagos. It might be time enough we started replying his tirades on the Igbo, since he decides not to know where to draw the line. In his latest drift, he said he would have been chasing lizards about if he had lived in Aba. That statement conveys the meaning that Aba, and…

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