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Ochereome Nnanna: Atiku should please define ‘restructuring’
By Ochereome Nnanna After one year of silence, Vice President Atiku Abubakar seized the opportunity of a book launch in Abuja last week to break his silence. He reviewed the…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Is Buhari too old to be President?
by Ochereome Nnanna Therefore, it is not the age that matters. It is what you have, what you do with it. It was unwise of Buhari to dabble into it…
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Ochereome Nnanna: APC — Now that Tinubu is in trouble
by Ochereome Nnanna Tinubu’s staying power in the party will hang, in the main, on his continued good relationship with President Buhari. While the various political elements that formed the…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Discard wrong power sharing formular
by Ochereome Nnanna For instance, it was reported that the President alone will be nominating a whopping 120 members to the Conference. That is larger than the 96 members that…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Is a Nigerian Mandela possible?
by Ochereome Nnanna So, we return to our question: Is Nigerian Mandela possible? Looking at our history, your answer is likely to be: No. The British colonialists did not lay…
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Ochereome Nnanna: On Abia sacked workers’ recall
by Ochereome Nnanna It is not true that Abia State Government sacked non-indigenes. Categories of staff from other South East states of Imo, Enugu, Anambra and Ebonyi were asked to…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Nigeria – The only way forward is to abolish the states
by Ochereome Nnanna No census has ever been accepted by Nigerians. Most Southerners believe that the notion of Northern majority is bogus and unfounded. They see it as part of…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Femi Falana should hands-off Chime’s case and stop being a Nosey Parker
by Ochereome Nnanna If, indeed, she is not well and cannot competently and safety assert her liberty, Falana should back off. He should allow Chime and members of the family…
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Ochereome Nnanna: If APC wins, Tinubu will lose
by Ochereome Nnanna Tinubu will supply the Vice President, and his platform will begin to play the second fiddle. With power in the hands of an APC Northern president, it…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Much ado about Oduah-gate
by Ochereome Nnanna She did not deny complicity in the saga. Rather, she reiterated that (a) the procurement of the cars followed due process, tendering all relevant documents to support…
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Ochereone Nnanna: Labour, a growing tyrant
by Ochereone Nnanna The Labour movement, especially the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, under the presidency of Waheed Omar, has entered into a cozy symbiotic relationship with Governor Oshiomhole. When the…
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Ochereome Nnanna: We want a real conference, not a jamboree
by Ochereome Nnanna The conference will now be exactly what we had feared: an Obasanjo-like jamboree that will not satisfy the yearnings of those hoping it would give Nigeria a…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Stella Oduah’s act of God
by Ochereome Nnanna Her mood change owed to calls in some quarters for her to be replaced because under her watch, Nigeria recorded unprecedented number of air mishaps totaling seven…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Take note Fashola, Nigeria is 100
by Ochereome Nnanna There should be no need to question whether Nigeria will be 100 years by January 2014. Nigeria was conceived and born on January 1, 1914. It was…
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Ochereme Nnanna: Disregard Junaidu’s empty boast, the North is yet to settle with its Minorities
by Ochereme Nnanna Contrary to Junaidu’s assumptions, it is the South, not the North, that is the guardian and guarantor of Nigeria’s continued existence. The moment the South finally decide…
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Opinion: Sweet relief from the Middle-East
by Ochereome Nnanna The recent events in Iran and Syria are pointers to the fact that the power of diplomacy must not be underestimated. It is only through skillful diplomacy…
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Ochereome Nnanna: OBJ – Chicken farmer behaving like chicken
by Ochereome Nnanna Obasanjo is merely fishing in PDP’s troubled waters. As soon as he is able to use the elders’ peace effort to negotiate a plum deal for himself…
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Opinion: Who will step down for whom? PDP’s stormy cup of tea
by Ochereome Nnanna The party is used to them. The party always comes out of these storms intact and strong enough to win the next election. The PDP is a…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Arik stowaway, FAAN and what should have been
by Ochereome Nnanna Boy Oi should be helped. He is an extraordinary young man. Such people can be turned to an asset to society. But if they are allowed to…
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Opinion: The Lagos ‘Babaloja’ impunity
by Ochereome Nnanna Igbo traders in Ladipo Motor Spare-parts Market kicked against the imposition of Oki as the leader of a market in which Yoruba traders and artisans form the…
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Ochereome Nnanna: The return of the trains from Lagos to the North
by Ochereome Nnanna Bearing in mind that until a couple of years ago Nigeria was totally railway immobile, the resumption of aggressive railway transportation and the very promising master plan…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Show us Shekau’s corpse please
by Ochereome Nnanna I wish the JTF will put the doubt over Shekau’s real fate to rest by displaying his body, or at least showing video evidence of his demise…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Lagos deportation – There’s no ‘no-man’s-land’
by Ochereome Nnanna If that were to be so, the EFCC would desist from trying Fani-Kayode for allegedly stealing public funds as Aviation Minister in deference to his “Yoruba patrimony”…
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Opinion: Who leads the APC, Tinubu or Buhari?
by Ochereome Nnanna The main headache will be when the LEADER of the party is considered. That is the man on whose table the buck comes to a final stop;…
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Opinion: Lessons learnt from the Igbo deportation saga
by Ochereome Nnanna If the Governors’ Forum focused on the right things, Mr Peter Obi of Anambra State would answer the phone when Fashola calls him. Obi would not only…
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Opinion: Why I reject local government autonomy
by Ochereome Nnanna If you grant financial autonomy to local councils, the chairmen will turn into 774 demons and tin gods, just as we have 36 of them in the…
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