Category: OPINION

By Tunde Asaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the BAT is on the road. Twenty years after positioning himself as governor before transforming into the Babasàlẹ̀ of Lagos and western Nigeria politics, Tinubu is pregnant with higher ambitions. On the surface, he seems on speaking engagement missions doling out money to groups and causes likely to favour his political calculations. It is not for fun standing in Arewa House to deliver the Ahmadu Bello Memorial Lecture, He was in Kano to mark his questionable ‘69th’ birthday anniversary. He has hobnobbed with Sultan…

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By Odo Ijere Who are those in charge of producing and generating electricity since time immemorial?  From NEPA to PHCN to now TCN. It has always been the Fulanis taking charge of this vital infrastructure in Nigeria and unable to run it. They will prefer unskilled, unprofessional personnel so long as they are their brothers to run the institution. Mediocrity, mendacity, and religiosity takes over policies resulting in decay and ruination. You see, to run a mega electricity infrastructure is hitec and hitec requires intellect and knowledge infrastructure. They do…

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By Ikechukwu Amaechi What causes heightened insecurity in the South East? This was the poser five governors and heads of the security agencies in the region raised when they met on Sunday, April 11, 2021 in Owerri during the first South East Security Summit. Many people are asking their own question: Don’t they know the reason? While it will be a surprise that they, indeed, don’t know the answer to the riddle, it is not a surprise that the meeting played the ostrich by approving, as part of 15-point communiqué,…

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File photograph of the late Chukwuma By Carl Azudibia Mbaise People’s Congress (MPC) has been thrown into deep mourning following the death on Saturday April 3, 2021 of our distinguished founding member and past Deputy National President, Mr. Innocent Chukwuma. We are indeed mourning; Mbaise is indeed mourning; the nation is mourning as well as all who came in contact with him. According to his wife, Mrs. Josephine Chukwuma, Innocent was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia on Friday April 2, 2021 and was to begin chemotherapy next day when he…

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Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu whom many believe made it possible for President Muhammadu Buhari to win elections in Nigeria By Farooq A. Kperogi Anyone who has watched Bola Ahmed Tinubu closely and dispassionately can’t help but notice that the man is not well. He is a walking psychedelic calamity. His endless verbal miscues and nonverbal cues constantly conspire to construct the profile of a man who is battling a troubling internal turmoil, who is held hostage by disablingly malefic inner demons. He appears to revel in his own self-created alternate…

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Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma was recently attacked by angry youths in his own state By Collins Opurozor There have been attacks on state institutions and law enforcement personnel across the South East lately. But it is clear that Imo State has topped the chart in the frequency, scale and audacity of the attacks, especially since the apparent cessation of hostilities between the Federal side and IPOB’s operatives in Orlu. It is therefore interesting to understand what might have gone wrong, and perhaps find a valid context to make…

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By Tunde Odesola I laughed upon remembering Chief Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo alias 4:30, and a proverb came to mind: “If death are strike dead the slow-motion chameleon with reckless abandon, why shall it not quench the jumpy-jumpy frog with instant automatic alacrity? Tell me!” Chief Zebrudaya, the patriarch of Nigeria’s funniest English sitcom, New Masquerade, didn’t vocalise the above-written proverb, that’s my inexpert creation. If he verbalised the proverb, Zebby, as his beautiful wife, Ovularia, lovingly calls him, would crack up viewers with his bombast while the funniest clowns in…

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By Angela Okafor Governor Ifeanyi Okowa came to power in 2015 with a strong pledge to develop Asaba the capital of Delta State. Not many people took him seriously for one obvious reason. They did not believe him. Politicians are masters of tricks and empty promises. Whether on the campaign podium or inauguration stand, they say whatever thing that catches their fancy, all to deceive the “gullible” masses. Okowa particularly stirred curiosity, on that fateful day of May 29th as he took oath of office before the Chief Justice of…

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By Abraham Apereseimokomo Alfred I wish to professionally recommend and same present to Your Excellency the above subject for your evaluation and subsequent consideration, as the attendant objectives this paper seeks to unearth are in line with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standard and recommended best practices. Suffice it to say, it is an indisputable fact that if the said recommendations are heeded by government, the outcome will not only strengthen significantly the economic sustainability of the state, but also further deepen the mantra of Your Excellency’s prosperity agenda,…

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Kano State Governor Mr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje By Muhammad Garba Our attention has been drawn to a malevolent write-up, which appeared on Wednesday back page Column of Leadership newspaper of March 17, 2021 titled: “I stand with Barrister Sa’ida Bugaje” and authored by Hannatu Musawa, a lawyer by profession and women’s rights activist.  The piece, which in its totality, a misrepresentation of facts, is apparently in defense of what the author called ‘her dear friend and sister’, Sa’ida Sa’ad Bugaje, also a lawyer. Bugaje has been dragged to court over…

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