2019: The illusion of Oby and other rookies
Oby Ezekwesili caused quite a stir on Sunday on Abuja streets. Even as ruling APC and main opposition PDP continued to trade insults days after individually presenting their election manifestos…
Oby Ezekwesili caused quite a stir on Sunday on Abuja streets. Even as ruling APC and main opposition PDP continued to trade insults days after individually presenting their election manifestos…
Back in the Athenian garden where the tradition of public debate was first documented in antiquity, the danger had long been recognized. Logicians call it red herring. Those in the…
It has almost been forgotten how Senator Bukola Saraki outmaneuvered key stakeholders in the political battlefield and in particular, the ruling All Progressives Congress, to emerge President of the Senate.…
The Senate in the first week of November 2018 raised dust on and set up an ad hoc committee to look into how the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) used N378…
The narrow-minded would probably view the futility of the entire visit only by a fleeting wardrobe malfunction. In the amusing picture that had trended in the social media, visiting Prince…
While pursuing his feudal aspiration in Imo, Rochas Okorocha would appear to be reading Igbo history book upside down. Several decades after warrant chiefs appointed by the imperialists failed in…
Our first encounter with Chief Anthony Anenih in 2000 was simply apocalyptic. The old cop was at his bewitching best – marshalling provincial tactics of intimidation and seduction. An editor…
Three years into its government, the ruling All Progressives Congress appears to be tightening its grip on the political space in a way that couldn’t be more different from the…
On the 22nd day of September 2003 the police disrupted the rally convened by the defunct All Nigeria Peoples’ Party (ANPP) to protest the rigging of the 2003 general election. The…
By Shuaib I. Shuaib Embarking on his first tour of Africa in July 2009, newly elected president of the United States, Barrack Obama delivered a speech at the Ghanaian parliament…