Incredible Elections
Incredible elections are won and lost in the dead of night, long after voters who stood guarding their votes are fast asleep. That is, for contestants relying on the dark…
Shuaibu, a former Editor of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers, is based in Abuja.
Incredible elections are won and lost in the dead of night, long after voters who stood guarding their votes are fast asleep. That is, for contestants relying on the dark…
Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra recently brought up the inability of successive governments to invest in post-civil war reconstruction, at a forum of southeast governors. The Federal Government, he said,…
Atiku Abubakar has long reached retirement age. In fact, it has been more than three decades since he retired from the Nigerian Customs Service, diving straight into politics, and contesting…
It’s official. Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has parted ways with Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, his longtime mentor, boss and political godfather. This comes after 30 years of mentorship in the Kwankwaso…
A 30-Year-Long Political Contest It now seems like a century ago when President Bola Tinubu uttered the words emi lokan in the lead up to the 2023 presidential election. It…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Lagos State governor had appointed DSP Kayode Egbetokun his Chief Security Officer, a role the police officer would serve in for about six years…
Everything is being done to bury the People’s Democratic Party. Its governors have been cajoled to abandon the platform that brought them to power. The ruling All Progressives Congress has…
There is a web of confusion swirling around the Bola Tinubu presidency. On one hand, sources from within his government are telling the media that there was attempted coup d’état…
December 30, 2020, the New York Times published an article about Franco A, a German neo-Nazi living a double life with two different identities. While he was a lieutenant in…
As of December 28, 2020, Africa was the only continent where a single shot of the coronavirus vaccine had not been administered on anyone. It could remain like that for…