THE FUTILITY OF ELECTION BOYCOTT IN ALA-IGBO
By Charles Ogbu. First, let me make this very clear, I recognize that election boycott is a legitimate tool of civil disobedience. But it is my humble view that Igbo youths boycotting election in Ala-igbo is a move that will further worsen our woes as a people. It will not help our quest for freedom […]
Why Power Makes Otherwise Sane People Brain-Damaged
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Almost everyone I know wonders aloud— and in silence— why people in power change radically; why they become so utterly disconnected from reality that they suddenly become completely unrecognizable to people who knew them before they got to power; why they get puffed-up, susceptible to flattery, and intolerant of even […]
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND HIS CRUEL HUSBAND
By Femi Fani Kayode. When President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in the United Kingdom in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, Archbishop Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Cantetbury and the presiding Bishop of the Church of England, who dutifully sat at his bedside when he was critically ill last year and who has assumed […]
WHEN AN ABUSE OF AN OLD MAN BECOMES MINDLESS AND ATROCIOUS
By Anayo M. Nwosu When a man gets older and crosses age 70, his sense organs begin to wane and malfunction. The brain articulates slower. It is normal to hear old men complain of ear, eye and joint problems. Human body is like a car. It gets older by each day. It also needs frequent […]
LIKE THE SILHOUETTE OF A VISIBLE MIRAGE, THE JURY IS OUT FOR CANDIDATE BUHARI!
By Samuel Ajayi What would have been the news was if Buhari announced he wasn’t running. His announcement was no news. His recent efforts at rapprochements with Tinubu were the background works. You may ask John Oyegun! For Buhari, the jury is out. In 2015, he was protected, propped up and dressed in borrowed garbs. […]
Danjuma’s Fire And The Traitors in Aso Rock
By George Makeri The Traitors in power have contracted a phoney personality by the name Prince Raymond Enero to create a phantom group Middle Belt Conscience Guard to threaten and blackmail Lieutenant General T. Y. Danjuma over his recent speech of ‘defend yourselves or you will all die’. Already, we heard that critics like myself are […]
BUHARI’S SCORECARD FROM INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES.
We are not thinking about the foundational building blocks of a robust economy—we are taking measures that will only enslave us the more in the years to come Just this year alone – we have had almost 11 poor ratings from continental and Global ratings – they all signify the failure of the “know how […]
No Nation Pays Cash to Terrorists On Her Soil
By Dr Perry Brimah In my article May last year, captioned “Dear FGN: No Responsible Nation Ever Paid And Freed Terror Masterminds Within Its Borders,” in rebuke of the Buhari government and its defense of its actions in reportedly paying Boko Haram terrorists millions of dollars and freeing the deadly group’s terror masterminds in exchange […]
INTERVIEW with Hon. Dahiru Yusuf Yabo on the Sokoto APC crack
A 2011 Gubernatorial candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change(CPC) in Sokoto state and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the state, Alhaji Dahiru Yusuf Yabo bore his mind on the politics playing out in the state chapter of the party. The ardent supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari is also a frontier […]
WHO CAN STAND ATIKULATE ATIKU?
ALL FROM THE NORTH! WHO CAN STAND ATIKULATE ATIKU? – By Muhammad Abubakar I choose to write as an outsider but a close observer of the activities of this quintessential civil servant, consummate businessman, exemplary politician, a prototypical bridge builder and a consummate family man. People Democratic Party in its ‘wisdom’ has zoned the choice of […]