By Simon Kolawole Disappointment was powdered on the faces of many of the young people around me when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo did not win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). To them, Osinbajo was one candidate they could connect with: articulate, urbane, agile and modern. One who is connected to the […]
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Television cameras never tell all the truth. The APC Presidential Primaries was my first time at a major political event. A roadblock was installed two kilometres from the entry gate. Hawkers of second-hand clothes and burantashi jostled for customers. Chaos was everywhere. Raggedy musical bands hired by some contestants marched […]
By Fredrick Nwabufo It has been seven years of attrition, hate-bartering and exhausting recriminations. A new epoch is on the horizon, but the psychological mutilations from these years of anger may shape up to be the frustrations of the next administration. Nigeria needs healing. The country needs a healer to mend the sectional cleaving […]
By Gbenga Ogunleye A couple of weeks ago, on April 29 to be precise, I sent a message to my friend of over two decades, Richard Akinnola, complaining about a news report credited to the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to the effect that the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, nominated Osinbajo as the Vice-president. For […]
By Clem Aguiyi In 2015, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, learnt the hard way when disillusioned Nigerians voted the party out of power. As if led by people under a spell, the party to the disappointment of many has not been effective as an opposition party either. First, it allowed an All Progressives Congress, […]
Ny Fredrick Nwabufo Foxy old Buhari. Artful. Deliberate. Unassuming but redoubtable. Principled but unaffected. He guards his mystery. He hardly betrays emotion. He keeps his real intentions secreted in layers and layers of very few inscrutable words – and most times in obfuscating silence. Take his ‘’obliviousness’’ for a lack of presence of mind at […]
By Kenechukwu Obiezu AS South-East Nigeria continues to unravel under the burden of crushing insecurity, a people, many of whom survived the atrocities of the Nigerian Civil War, are being forced to relive the arresting anxieties that were associated with those heady days when a newly independent country deployed the darkest arts to keep […]
ONE of the many benefits of campaigning around the country is to give ordinary folks opportunity to meet with, assess their leaders and profile their suitability for the office they crave. Although our vice president has been quite peripatetic in the last seven years, the grueling campaign schedule of the last one month has […]
By Ibe Pascal Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in […]
By Frederick Nwabufo Expectations are high. Rightly so. 2023 has been roundly described as a make-or-mar year for Nigeria. Citizens seek change. Things have to change. The current socio-economic tailspin must be arrested. But we have to be pragmatic with our expectations. Good things do not come easy. No single individual can magic Nigeria […]
