Gowon, Obasanjo And Na’Abba’s Regrets
In Nigeria today, any attempt to impeach a president will almost definitely lead to an impasse in the National Assembly. That is regardless of who the president is, which party…
Shuaibu, a former Editor of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers, is based in Abuja.
In Nigeria today, any attempt to impeach a president will almost definitely lead to an impasse in the National Assembly. That is regardless of who the president is, which party…
Ahead of the African Union heads of state meeting in Niger yesterday, Nigeria was not the only West African country that had not signed the continental free trade agreement, which…
In 1995, Ethiopia adopted a new constitution dividing the country into nine blocks of ethnic regions. With over 100 million people and 80 different ethnic groups, the country is second…
Once a bad political precedent has been set Nigeria, it is bound to happen again and again until it surprises no one and all the tricks that make it possible…
Much to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s dismay, the ruling APC is on the verge of stamping its mark on all three arms of government. The former president’s grouse is that the…
It’s a tradition now. Every festive period or when a state governor is in a good mood, he releases a number of prisoners from incarceration. Usually, there is no real…
Professor Jibril Aminu as minister of education in the government of President Ibrahim Babangida, did everything he could to improve the lives of Fulani herdsmen with his programme on nomadic…
Over the last two decades, the senators and members of the House of Representatives elected to represent the Nigerian people for a period of four years have been depicted as…
Senator Bukola Saraki is a different kind of politician from Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is unlikely Saraki could have taken hold of his forte the way Tinubu has taken hold…
The National Assembly needs to amend its rules on how it’s leadership and principal officers are selected. The ruling All Progressives Congress has been crying out to anyone who cares…