It may be the thinking of some Christians in Nigeria that God doesn’t want Buhari to be president. That could be for a reason- his fanatic religious overtone. Many also have the belief that given the chance, he will turn Nigeria into an Islamic state. Some Muslims as well think that nobody else should bear […]
By Adewale Kupoluyi – As the presidential election contest becomes fiercer, the candidates are busy perfecting their winning strategies to enable them occupy the Aso Rock Villa by next year. From all indications, the major contestants in the race are certainly those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, […]
Color white has always been synonymous with purity and peace, or at least presumptively so. Nigeria’s edifice that housed the sitting government, the Aso Rock is painted white which supposedly symbolize governmental peace and national unity. However, the occupants of this mansion have stained and polluted it. They have redefined it to depict impurity, insanity […]
Roland Bankole, Florida – Harmattan season is ripe in Sierra Leone at Christmas. But there will be no Christmas in my motherland. Don’t tell our nervous folks back home or abroad that it’s not a blizzard winter condition. Christmas church service may not take place here in US, as climatic conditions could be brutal or […]
Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo has written to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) asking the party to disqualify former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Bello Masari over alleged presentation of forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Keyamo said he is writing on behalf of his clients, […]
Written by Obinna Akukwe – The construction of 2nd Niger Bridge through a Public Private Partnership involving Julius Berger -NSIA Consortium and tolling the Igbo people for 25 years thereafter is another 419 on the Biafran Igbo citizens of South East Nigeria. According to the terms of this fraudulent business, the project is a Design, […]
In more than a decade since the end of its military rule, Nigeria has made significant strides toward solidifying itself as a bastion of democracy. Today, Nigeria prides itself as a country with open elections and freedom of the press, the right to due process and an independent judiciary. But in spite of the substantial […]
By Madubuko Hart – Victory comes with it envy from enemies of the conqueror. Some persons and groups have towed this inglorious line since the polite Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu (PhD) was triumphantly elected the 2015 governorship flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State. While the governor of the state, Chief T.A.Orji has […]
By Rev Obinna Akukwe – President Jonathan had come again for Igbo votes ahead of the emergence of successful All Progressive Congress (APC) Primaries which picked General Muhammadu Buhari as flagbearer. With the emergence of Buhari as APC candidate,it is obvious that it is no more tea party for the PDP, and one of the […]
By Dr Austin Uganwa Akin to several People’s Democratic Party governorship primaries held across the country last Monday, Imo state own has also come and gone leaving on its trails tough contest, appreciable records and forecasts that came to pass. Days and even hours before the PDP Imo gubernatorial primaries was held most political watchers […]
“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set” (Proverbs 22:28) KJV Next year, 2015, for Nigerians, holds a mantra, a swagger sort of oasis in a long stretch of barren land, succinctly captured in a simple phrase, a desert. The choice of the descriptive above is all symbolic, carrying with them probabilities far […]
Perhaps born out of the nationwide acceptance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the party to beat in the upcoming general election in the country, the quest for its ticket by aspirants have become very fierce and unruly in some instances and even sordid in some states as have been reported in the national […]
By MAXWELL EZE, Abakaliki The November 29th 2014 primaries for the House of Assembly aspirants under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State has become an eye opener to the politicians and observers of the new born polity in the area. A few hours to the primaries, the state governor, Chief […]
By Madubuko Hart Opposition politicians in Abia State are looking for trouble in the name of playing politics; they are diagnosing the politics in that state incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies, all in a bid to smear the image of Governor Theodore Orji and mislead the general public. One wonders from where they got […]
Going by the timeline of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), campaigns for presidential and National Assembly elections should commence this month as well as those for governorship and state houses of assembly elections while those of the National Assembly, presidential and governorship as well as State Assembly elections should hold next February. Since the […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The United States of America USA is by far one of the most multi-racial communities in the world, and following closely by other countries like Britain, France and Italy. These are countries with history of slave traders and forced labour colonial masters in plantations to advance […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo It always comes down to this. How selfish, greedy and insensitive can some of these our rulers be? They are parasites feeding fat on the blood of the people, causing untold miseries and are like malignant tumours that just will not go away. Eight years as a governor of an oil-rich state, […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo The news going round is that Nigeria is broke. I, for one, do not believe that fallacy. However, if the treasury is indeed empty or nearing emptiness, then what it means is that this happened because the government, this government and past governments had not exercised good fiscal, economic responsibility and […]
Crude oil asking price per barrel in the international market is reported to have slumped far lower than the budget projection of a little over $75 USD. This, coupled with the unfortunate scenario of the United States of America not buying Nigeria’s huge crude oil exports are said to be the major fear factor why […]
By Johnson Momodu If the term ‘verbal shenanigans’ strikes you like the title of a made-in-a-hurry Nollywood home video packaged and sold as a “movie,” it is probably because that is what the Comrade Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, and his All Progressives Congress (APC) colleague, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, are currently working […]
