by Ahmed Kaita The problem of governance, particularly at the local level has been a recurring decimal in the political history of Nigeria. It was heart warming seeing the resolve by the lower chambers of the National Assembly to restore some sanity in local government administration in Nigeria. Interestingly, the over bearing presence/influence of governors... Read More
by Chido Onumah If al-Mustapha didn’t kill Kudirat Abiola or order her assassination, it would be nice to know what al-Mustapha and the regime he served so faithfully did to find the killers of Kudirat, Pa Alfred Rewane and others murdered during the Abacha regime. This should be the question on the lips of every... Read More
by Femi Falana In his characteristically forthright manner, the Edo state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, exposed the NBA leadership to ridicule when he said that: “the environment and the overall circumstance known and unknown that led the NBA president to call for the freezing of the right of Governors to associate borders on corrupt practice.”... Read More
by Azuka Onwuka It is an open secret that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has his eyes on the Presidency for 2015. It is also not a secret that he is not in good terms with President Goodluck Jonathan, who seemingly is interested in re-election in 2015. But the... Read More
by Michael Orodare Now is the set time for negotiation as no meaningful negotiation comes after victory. The post-1993 experience is enough to learn from; not to be too fixated on struggle and ignoring the round table talk for power sharing. Though I was a boy during the hullabaloo that engulfed Nigeria after the 1993... Read More
by Cheta Nwanze June 12 1993 was a blessing to Nigeria in my opinion. It gave us a chance to taste Abacha. You see, prior to Abacha, the closest we had come to a malevolent dictatorship was Buhari/Idiagbon. On a Channels TV programme on Sunday, I was asked how June 12, 1993 was for me.... Read More
by Wale Odunsi Continue to rest in peace, the President we never had they never allowed us have. The day was Saturday June 12, week 23 of the year 1993, the event was the much-awaited presidential election. Social Democratic Party’s Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola on one hand; National Republican Convention’s Bashir Othman Tofa on the other. A massive turn out... Read More
by Hafsat Abiola-Costello But today is not a day for sorrow. No, not even when the main beneficiaries of his sacrifice fail to honor the ideals for which these true democrats laid down their lives; not even when the national leadership since 1999 has sought to wipe MKO’s name out of our living memory. Twenty... Read More
by Olusegun Adeniyi Nigerians need not look too far for the real culprits in the saga of election manipulations in our country: The faces of the bad losers in the NGF election seem very much familiar. Shame! Very early in 1993, the State House Correspondents (of which I was one, reporting for African Concord) held... Read More
by Okay Ndibe Nigerians may not be able to bear – should not bear – the burden of yet another clash of naked ambitions. Once again, Nigeria has entered an awful, familiar season. The country’s air is rent with talk of power. Not electric power, no; we’re talking raw political power! And the general elections... Read More
by Femi Adesina I was at the investiture ceremony of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as Vanguard Newspaper Personality of the Year 2012 last Saturday. The colourful event held at the Expo Centre of Eko Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos. Who was chairman of the event, and what did he say that... Read More
by Akan Ido In this Punch Newspapers interview, Maj.-Gen. Zamani Lekwot (retd.), a former Military Administrator of Rivers State, speaks about his career, his imprisonment, the Boko Haram menace and other contemporary issues facing the country. Read excerpts from the interview below: There have been a lot of killings in Nigeria by the Boko... Read More
by Ibrahim Babangida Some of the mistakes of the past have now come to haunt us. But let me make one thing clear. Not all these mistakes were made out of callousness or bad faith or malice. In less than a year, in about 11 months and a few days, we as Nigerians will be... Read More
by Simon Kolawole In his civil war memoir, There Was a Country, which turned out to be his last work, he maintained his age-old assertion that the rest of Nigeria was at war with the Igbo, and that the only thing uniting Nigerians is their common hatred for the Igbo. It was like making a... Read More
Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim, the Group Managing Director of Global Fleet was yesterday a year older and he was available to speak with ThisDay Newspapers on his experience with running a thriving business in Nigeria and his plans at expanding the business. Read excerpts of the interview below: How do you feel at 46? I feel... Read More
by Wale Bakare Oil became the new Agriculture of my generation. Owning an oil block was more worthy than tilling the land. As far back as the early 80s – Nigerias post colonial Agricultural revolution recorded some remarkable feat in the global world. Farming became the imported old bride for the previously stone-aged dwellers having... Read More
by Isi Esene The much anticipated book authored by the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, reportedly contains an insider’s view on the political intrigues surrounding the former president Olusegun Obasanjo administration. Well, as expected, those he is writing about aren’t finding any of this funny. We’ll stand the countdown... Read More
by Bayo Oluwasanmi The aged despot, a diabolical genius and a man with empty cranium with no droplets of wisdom declared that “Nigeria is bigger than Dele Giwa and that issue of his death should be forgotten forever.” One of the high profile cold murder cases in the history of criminal justice in Nigeria that... Read More
by Akan Ido Former Finance Minister, Mallam Adamu Ciroma is a respected voice in the Nigerian polity having garnered valuable experience working with several successive administrations in the country coming into prominence during the president Shehu Shagari administration. His assessment of the Goodluck Jonathan administration is, however, not complimentary as he described the present government... Read More
by Uwa Odefa The situation could be different if we had “chosen” differently. Well, we still can. Let the past go with the old year. Today marks the beginning of the rest of your life. Let’s not give ourselves more cause for regret. In times past, once the beginning of a new year comes around... Read More
by Sabella Abidde My position is not that “mad men” cannot be good and effective leaders. They can be if properly treated! Whether one has data or not, some sweeping statements about Nigeria are true and can be verified. For instance, one could assert that Nigeria’s economic and political conditions have gradually worsened since 1985.... Read More
by Isi Esene General Muhammadu Buhari has been known to be taciturn, always keeping his feeling to himself except on few occasions when his bottled-up emotions took over him and resulted in tears. But in an exclusive interview with the Sun Newspapers, the General spoke about his relationship with other notable generals like Ibrahim Babangida... Read More
Because change doesn’t happen because one set of people is replaced by the next. Change only happens because one set of philosophies is replaced by another. When democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999, a generation was just finding itself. Its evolution stunted because of the endless military occupations of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, it... Read More
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by Isi Esene The financial bid process for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria successor Generation Companies attracted a number of notable businessmen such as Tony Elumelu, Femi Otedola and several others. The bidding was organised by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) the privatize the generation component of the supply of electricity to the... Read More
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