Garba Shehu

August 20, 2014

Opinion: Dear Jonathan, sack Ebola, not the doctors

by Garba Shehu Last week’s sack of 16,000 Resident Doctors by the Federal Government is careless, unscrupulous and clearly an indefensible action. It could turn out to be a social catastrophe that will worsen a medical system in severe crisis. As said by the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, this action can only worsen the abysmal... Read More

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August 17, 2014

Garba Shehu: Is the Nigerian Army capable?

by Garba Shehu That the army cannot defend engineers and technicians for five hours so that the repairs can be made? This is incredible. This country has Africa’s best army by reputation. The terror groups in the North-East who now have a territory of their own on the Nigerian soil, as confirmed by various reports,... Read More

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Garba Shehu: “Jews (Read: Northerners) unwelcome” – The dangers of ethnic/religious profiling

by Garba Shehu Profiling of citizens in accordance with their religion and ethnicity is wrong and condemnable. As the Nazi leaders quickened their preparations for the European war of conquest that they intended to unleash, anti-Semitic legislation in Germany and Austria paved the way for more radical persecution of Jews. These, as the reader may recall,... Read More

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Garba Shehu: As the North grabs its fate in its hands

by Garba Shehu The communiqué also strongly disagreed with the malicious linking of Islam to bandits who merrily kill, kidnap and trample on innocent persons and businesses, as well as the psychological war against the North and the country as a whole using the social media. A common narrative among lazy commentators and apologists... Read More

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Garba Shehu: Emir Sanusi’s curious deal, and perils he must avoid

by Garba Shehu One, as is well known, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi has a very strong sense of himself. This makes him to face issues frontally without strategy or tact. You don’t throw volleys just anyhow and for this, let’s hope that the kingship as an institution will help to mollify him. It is... Read More

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Garba Shehu: How politics made the abduction of 276 girls possible

by Garba Shehu It is clear from here that the slow reaction to the abductions was simply on account of politics and the desperate greed for power, which was shown by the President scurrying around to secure a further four years in office, adding to the six he has nearly spent without doing the work... Read More

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Garba Shehu: A government’s cluelessness, information blackout and our missing girls

by Garba Shehu From every indication, the search for these Nigerian schoolgirls will probably be the most difficult search in human history, not the Malaysian Flight MH370 as cited by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. I am sure many of our readers still remember the story of Julie Ward, the 28-year old British wildlife photographer... Read More

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Opinion: Shocking truths to know about the Ebola virus

by Garba Shehu The Ebola virus, according to medical authorities, is spread through contact with body fluids, such as the sweat, blood, and saliva of an infected person or animal. Doctors say the only way to contain the outbreak is to stop further infections. Nigeria with her population of 160 million-plus is at the door-step... Read More

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Opinion: APC, PDP and their endless verbal rockets

by Garba Shehu As the party with the largest number of states and seats in the federal parliament under its control, the PDP and its may communicators must come to terms with the responsibility they carry on their shoulders, of nudging the country to reach the stage of a mature democracy where issues are discussed... Read More

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Opinion: The National Conference is simply a ‘dictatorial safari’

by Garba Shehu Two, this budding dictator, the President of Nigeria is going about it in a way suggesting that he is not a firm believer in representative democracy. Why would he not call on the citizens to elect men and women who will represent them at the conference? Some call it a Machiavellian simplification.... Read More

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Opinion: Mr President, you should secure schools, not close them down

by Garba Shehu The schools closure only smacks of government’s off-handed handling of the situation in the North-East. It is difficult to understand why government has stuck to violence as the only solution to the crisis. When they speak about the issue as the President usually did when he attends Church these days, he mouthes... Read More

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February 13, 2014

Opinion: Sanusi might be down but he is definitely not out

by Garba Shehu Governor Lamido Sanusi will not have a hard fall and by God’s mercy, his story will have a happy ending. It will have a happy ending because the latest quarrels he has picked against the increasingly unpopular administration are the peoples’ battles. These days, the outgoing Governor of the Central Bank of... Read More

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February 7, 2014

Opinion: Katsina gave Namadi Sambo a low blow

by Garba Shehu Governor Shema revealed himself more fully when his supporters treated Vice President very rudely and contemptuously by interrupting his speech with shouts of “sai Shema”, “Nigeria sai Shema” It is not today that governors started jockeying to replace a sitting vice president in Nigeria. When he was in office as Vice President in President Olusegun... Read More

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January 31, 2014

Garba Shehu: Labaran Maku and his frenzied attacks on Northern leaders

by Garba Shehu At another occasion, he thundered that “the fiction in the North that President Jonathan and Vice President Sambo are not developing the North, is the fiction whipped up by politicians who see nothing other than their blind ambitions. When they want to do it (leadership), they continue to talk about the North.... Read More

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January 2, 2014

Opinion: The buzz you should expect from Jonathan in 2014

by Garba Shehu The year 2014 is certainly going to be a thrill. Watch out for Dr Jonathan and the World Cup in Brazil. There are very many Nigerians who couldn’t wait for 2013 to end. The country’s heads of security agencies, especially the army, whose troops got more than anyone expected from Boko Haram... Read More

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December 26, 2013

Opinion: Why PDP is like NCNC – and why it will fail if it doesn’t listen

by Garba Shehu The people have sounded the bugle and come 2015, they want to build a new Nigeria with the PDP if they are willing to change their ways and certainly without them should they continue to minimize the party into a deaf and a regional or tribal organisation. The stunning take-over of the... Read More

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December 20, 2013

Opinion: OBJ’s letter – What options are open to President Jonathan?

by Garba Shehu The President has no option but to give a reflective response. He needs to show a full contextual understanding; have a correct reading of the mood of nation, and come clean before the citizens on all charges contained in that letter. That is the only way he can redeem the government he... Read More

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December 11, 2013

Garba Shehu: As Gov. Lamido and the PDP Chairman fight each other…

by Garba Shehu What this calls for on the part of Lamido, who apparently wants to replace Mr. Jonathan, is to know or identify your target/enemy and go after him. A party Chairman under the PDP has stopped being a respectable job since the forced exit of Chief Audu Ogbeh and to an extent Vincent... Read More

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December 8, 2013

A rejoinder: On Garba Shehu’s garble of misinformation about the EFCC, by Wilson Uwujaren

by Wilson Uwujaren Several things make this article a put off. First, it baffles me why so called columnists can’t see things from outside the narrow prism of politics and nepotism. Second, how the presidency and the PDP turned the EFCC into a machete that slit the throats of the opposition remains a mystery. Shehu... Read More

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December 5, 2013

Opinion: It’s sad the EFCC has lost its bearing

by Garba Shehu More than at any time, the EFCC is today right there in the crutches of the President. Current reports say the five PDP governors who decamped to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC are now priority cases. To be found guilty at all costs. There are many of you out there who... Read More

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November 13, 2013

Opinion: The truth about Boko Haram according to Gov. Geidam

by Garba Shehu In the opinion of the Governor, members of the insurgent group were in possession of superior weapons that the army. He then advised that “the Federal Government must provide high caliber arms and weapons to succeed in the fight against terrorism. In the midst of the unsavoury debate over the rightfulness of... Read More

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October 3, 2013

Opinion: PDP’s ‘sin’ tax is socialism, so what?

by Garba Shehu In line with this, government should expand the scope of the new tax, to cover those “sinful” items and tax them the more and more, so that citizens are forced to change unwanted habits. Items such as tobacco, alcohol, jewelry, high-end automobiles, private jets, luxury homes and boats ought to be targets... Read More

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September 26, 2013

Opinion: A white elephant called The Child Rights Act

by Garba Shehu But without education and enlightenment, life-changing acts of parliament such as the Child Rights Act will remain what they are –white elephants. A lesson man is taught by birds is that they take care of those that cannot fly without the thought of a reward (Veda). Although Nigeria followed other nations to... Read More

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September 12, 2013

“You are wrong, I’m not corrupt,” Atiku fires back at Obasanjo

by Oge Okonkwo Former vice president Atiku Abubakar, has denied any allegation of corruption brought against him by the former president, President Olusegun Obasanjo. In an interview published by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) magazine ‘Zero Tolerance’, Obasanjo had accused Atiku of corruption saying that Atiku cannot travel to the Unites States of America because he... Read More

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September 8, 2013

‘Stay away from Niger Delta’: Ex-militants declare Atiku persona-non-grata over PDP crisis

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been declared a persona-non-grata by leaders of ex-militants in the Niger Delta for threatening to stop the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 and spearheading the break-up of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The former warlords drawn from all nine states of the Niger Delta made the declaration... Read More

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August 24, 2013

Opinion: Insecurity in Nigeria – A hungry man can fight the king

by Garba Shehu States that have fed their destitute and poor for a month have no moral right to suddenly withdraw this arrangement simply because the Holy month of Ramadan is over. An Arab proverb says “a hungry man can fight the king”. “The world’s hunger is getting ridiculous. There is more fruit in a... Read More

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Opinion: Nigeria’s glittering Almajiri plan

by Garba Shehu The Almajiri education policy of the Jonathan administration is important, not because it is a pioneering effort. In Kano, I know of the past efforts of the military administration of Governor Ndatsu Umaru who attempted, in a vigorous way, to merge the Arabic and Boko (western) schools complete with an edict to... Read More

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