South East Political Leaders With Money And Opportunities But Little Or No Sense; Certainly Gutless
By Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu In South-East APC Integrity Group, from June 2015 to January 2020, we strategized and pushed for sanitization and growth of APC in the South-East, preparatory to the geopolitical zone making a strong collective bid for 2023 Presidency…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Ha!
By Farooq Kperogi A protégé of mine who is now an international broadcaster and who’s deeply embedded in the inner recesses of Nigeria’s political circles told me 3 months ago that Atiku would win PDP’s nomination and that Tinubu would…
Tinubu and Osinbajo: The True Story of How They Met
By Bayo Onanuga I never wanted to write this story but I was inspired to do so today, following Buba Galadima’s interview with the Punch on Monday. Buba struck a chord when he spoke about the issue of trust in…
Is There Truly A Nigeria Police Force?
By Emmanuel Onwubiko “The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.” – Richard J. Daley. Under the Nigerian Constitution, Section 214(1) establishes the Nigeria Police Force in writing. Under the extant police Act signed in…
Kudirat Abiola: 26 Years Into An Amazon’s Flight
By Joe Okei Odumakin Nat King Cole sang, “Unforgettable”…he didn’t have Alhaja Kudirat Abiola in mind, but he did. Our heroine is in every way unforgettable, 26 years on. She was murdered on the 4th of June 1996 by the…
Two Brothers, Different Fate
By Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe Since the concluded PDP presidential primaries, there have been different narratives canvassed in the media space for and against the aspirants. One of such who has attracted more attention than the eventual winner of the election…
Peter Obi Has Carved His Own Unique Path – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
I am proud of my brother, Governor Peter Obi. I am entitled to my talk on him: ‘He came, he saw, he conquered’. His governance of Anambra State was full of experiences worth-sharing and indeed worth capturing in a book…
3 Years of Governor Inuwa’s Saddle in the Savannah: A Vindication Of A Promise Keeper
By Ismaila Uba Misilli Given the character of politics and governance in our clime, there is the tendency by the people to be cynical about pronouncements or promises made by political leaders especially during elections. Of course, there is a…
Fixing Nigeria: The Saraki Edge
By Tunde Bakare The season is back again. Four full years have run out so fast. The revolutionaries we met and heard about four years ago are metamophorsing into reactionaries today. It is all part of the shrewd political knowhow…
Enugu Guber 2023: Why Ugwuanyi Will Decide
By Onyema Ede The raw material for politics is population, as the person with the highest number of votes will be declared winner both in the primary election and the general election. With the coming into force of the Electoral…
Insecurity: Nigeria Needs A Working Formula
By Emmanuel Onwubiko “Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the…
