N44m dowry, 22 year reign | The 5 numbers that mattered this week

N522 billion – President Muhammadu Buhari announced that this amount has been disbursed to state governments to pay up salaries and pension arrears. 22 – The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh ruled for this number of years before he lost his fifth re-election bid to opposition candidate, Adams Barrow. N44 million – The alleged worth of... Read More

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December 3, 2016

The Thread: The reign of African dictators is coming to an end

“Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979 and is one of Africa’s longest-ruling leaders, will not stand for re-election at national polls due to be held next year, a ruling party document showed on Friday,” Channels News Asia reports. Is the reign of African dictators coming to an end?... Read More

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November 29, 2016

LOL! This one tweet by @akaebube links Buhari’s confusion to Toke Makinwa’s marriage

Since Toke Makinwa released her tell-all/must-tell book and the very jaw-dropping details of her estranged marriage to Maje Ayida, the conversations have not stopped. Everyone is weighing in on the issues, taking sides, showing empathy and stuff. But this one tweet? We didn’t see it coming. How? APC? President Buhari? Toke Makinwa? And the classic... Read More

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November 29, 2016

Is OBJ really the most corrupt president ever? + more on The Slab with Isime

This week on The Slab, Chukwukere plays host in Isime’s stead and he’s joined by Tolu, Ezinne and the newest addition to the crew, Usman. Whoop-whoop! There’s a lot to talk about on this episode so let’s just dive in. Tolu and Ezinne seem excited about calling Seun Egbegbe out for allegedly stealing 9 iPhones... Read More

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November 29, 2016

Pius Adesanmi: Finding crude oil in the North is Buhari’s understanding of economic diversification

by Pius Adesanmi In my entire adult life, every government in Nigeria has mouthed the platitude of economic diversification. Whether military or civilian, every administration has gone to the Aso Rock Villa screaming her determination to wean Nigeria of oil dependency from the rooftops. Such administrations wax nostalgic about the groundnut pyramids of Kano, the... Read More

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November 28, 2016

Opinion: If Tinubu walks, Buhari will go

by Umar Hassan The absence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and some APC South West Governors from the November 12th rally held in support of the Party’s candidate in the Ondo gubernatorial elections Chief Rotimi Akeredolu spells doom for President Buhari’s 2nd term chances. It’s one thing to not have the party in his grip and... Read More

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November 26, 2016

Opinion: Lt. Col. Muhammed Abu Ali | Our fallen heroes and arms-fund thieves

by A. S. M. Jimoh I didn’t know how to choose the title of this piece to properly reflect the depth of my anger while equally paying tribute to Lt. Col. Muhammed Abu Ali and his colleagues killed by Boko Haram terrorists. I am always devastated whenever I juxtapose the death of men of the... Read More

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November 24, 2016

Opinion: Till debt do us apart

by Jideofor Adibe The recent request from President Buhari for legislative authorization for an external borrowing of almost $30bn is a sharp reminder that history truly moves in circles and that human memories are short. It should be recalled that Africa’s debt overhang was partly blamed for why the 1980s and 1990s were regarded as... Read More

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November 24, 2016

Opinion: Reactions to Trump’s Presidency – focus on Nigeria

by Ebuka Emebinah The election of Donald J. Trump on 9th November 2016 sent shock waves around the world. I like most Nigerians supported and rooted for Hillary instead of Trump who I felt was not prepared to lead and ran a negative campaign. The Donald lost all three debates, which I stayed awake to watch,... Read More

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November 20, 2016

Dele Momodu: The second coming of Goodluck Jonathan

by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, before I get into my main gist of today, let me quickly apologise for my inability to write this column last week. Truth is I had a mental block, pure and simple. Contrary to speculations that I couldn’t write because my great heroine, Hillary Clinton, lost her election, I was... Read More

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November 19, 2016

Farooq Kperogi: Buhari’s phantom $500m donation to Clinton’s campaign

by Farooq A. Kperogi In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s emergence as America’s president-elect, fringe, dodgy, clickbaity Nigerian websites have invented a transparently fake but wildly viral story that President Muhammadu Buhari donated $500 million to the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, and that this “fact” would strain relations between Nigeria and the United States next... Read More

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November 19, 2016

N3.6bn for cars, N200m for houses | The 5 numbers that mattered this week

N200million – Edo State House of Assembly approved a bill to build houses worth this amount for ex-governors of the state while ex-deputies get houses worth N100million. N3.6billion – This amount was expended on purchasing 360 Peugeot 508 saloon cars for members of the House of Representatives to enable them perform official duties effectively. 3... Read More

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November 18, 2016

Opinion: Dear President Buhari, the Nigerian Police is a monster; confront it

by Akintoye Abdulraheem Police work is noble work. I begin with this important concession. Those who risk their lives to protect our lives and property, and who ensure the preservation of law and order deserve our respect. But even as one grants this important concession, one is constrained to quickly add that the noble institution has... Read More

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November 17, 2016

Timeline: President Buhari’s administration may actually be creating jobs

During the campaigns, President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC made unemployment a focal point. The key promise was to provide millions of jobs through the proposed Social Protection Programme, an intervention programme aimed at lifting citizens out of poverty. The Social Protection Programme was formally launched by the president on May 29, 2016, and one... Read More

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November 16, 2016

Femi Fani-Kayode: Head bloodied but not bowed (Pt. 1)

by Femi Fani-Kayode Permit me to begin this contribution with an apology for my disappearance from the literary and political scene for the last one month but this was due to circumstances beyond my control. On October 21st, five days after my 56th birthday, I was arrested by the EFCC without an arrest warrant at... Read More

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November 16, 2016

Famine, Niger Delta bombings and every other reason we should all be worried

This is not an alarm and we do not intend to scare you, but you should be worried just as we are about the state of the nation. We are in the third month of an economic recession and events have spiraled into an even more deplorable state since then, in spite of President Muhammadu... Read More

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November 16, 2016

Pius Adesanmi: Nigeria is the only place on earth with a mnemonic statute of limitation on murder

by Pius Adesanmi So the accused killers of Mrs Bridget Agbanime were declared innocent and freed and it hardly made national news? In fact, someone only just emailed me about it. How many “national priorities” have we had since this latest addition to Nigeria’s mountain of moving on without justice for the dead and their... Read More

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November 15, 2016

The Thread: Nigerians are tired of hunger and oppression | #BuhariMustGo

A group which calls itself Wailing Wailers is calling for the resignation of President Buhari from office. According to the group and their supporters, Buhari’s rule has unleashed an unprecedented level of hunger, unemployment, and all-round suffering in Nigeria today, and there appears to be no end in sight. The Wailing Wailers have done a... Read More

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November 14, 2016

Reno Omokri: Fashola, Buhari and an administration bereft of ideas

by Reno Omokri Just two days ago on the 11th of November, 2016, Raji Fashola, Nigeria’s super minister of power, works and housing, who is more famous for spending ₦78 million on his website in 2014 (an amount then worth $500,000) said that the 7% GDP growth Nigeria enjoyed under the Jonathan administration was solely... Read More

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November 13, 2016

Wilfred Okiche: The world is changing [NEW VOICES]

by Wilfred Okiche We got a first-hand taste last year when Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) put an abrupt end to sixteen uninterrupted years of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP reign was meant to last at least 60 years and such an upset had never happened in Nigeria’s storied political... Read More

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November 12, 2016

Farooq Kperogi: Making sense of Trump’s victory for Nigerians

Several of my Nigerian readers have asked me to help them make sense of Donald Trump’s unsettling electoral triumph over Hillary Clinton. Why would a country that prides itself on being the “greatest country on earth” and the world’s “oldest democracy” elect a vulgar, reactionary buffoon like Trump? Well, Hillary Clinton actually won the popular... Read More

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November 12, 2016

Opinion: Still on Reuben Abati and Aso Rock demons

by Matthew Ige 14th October, 2016 it was, when the immediate erstwhile spokesperson of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati, dropped a rather bogus spiritual treatise which borders on the spiritual version of the Nigerian ‘power house’, Aso Villa’. The crux of his postulation, in the said treatise, was that the Nigerian ‘house on... Read More

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November 11, 2016

The Thread: Dear President Buhari, economic matters cannot be solved by force

So we all know the Nigerian economy has been in recession. The Federal Government assured us at different times we will be out of it soon, but that remains to be seen. In a creative move to get the economy under control, and out of recession, President Buhari yesterday sent his lapdogs- the Department of State Security... Read More

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November 9, 2016

Charly Boy: Fellow frustrated Nigerians, make it a date with us on November 15th

by Charly Boy From Unity Fountain to National Assembly In the life of every human being, there comes a moment when we must make a stand for that which matters. Nigeria is a country that is richly blessed with natural resources and... Read More

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November 9, 2016

Opinion: What does President Trump mean for Nigeria?

2016 will go down as the year of the roll back. In Nigeria, we are going through our first recession in nearly two decades. Our colonisers, the United Kingdom, turned their backs on four decades of European Union membership; Turkey, a major Nigerian trading partner, has slowly started turning its back on the legacy of... Read More

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November 8, 2016

Opinion: Accountability and the demons in Aso Villa

by Ikeogu Oke Reuben Abati’s widely published piece, “The Spiritual Side of Aso Villa,” deserves very critical attention for its implication for accountability. That implication, which I consider harmful, is that it creates grounds for anyone who has operated and may operate from Aso Villa, our country’s seat of power, to argue their exoneration for... Read More

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November 7, 2016

Opinion: Lt. Col. Abu Ali: Painful death of a gallant soldier

by Michael Jegede The news of the death of Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Abu Ali, said to be the most gallant commander and efficient fighter in the Nigerian Army’s battle to crush the members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, was received with pang of shock, tears, anguish and lamentations by Nigerians. It was really shocking... Read More

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November 5, 2016

Reno Omokri: Buhari, Jonathan and a redefinition of change

by Reno Omokri Name your dog Buhari and you will be diligently prosecuted in today’s Nigeria but kill a harmless wife of an evangelist preaching the Gospel of Jesus and you will be acquitted! Welcome to the new improved Nigeria! This may sound surreal but it is the present day reality we live in in... Read More

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November 4, 2016

Opinion: Re | Buhari, Jonathan and a redefinition of change

by Dele Awogbeoba For a while now, Nigerians have had to endure a whole stream of articles coming from the pen of a certain former adviser to the Goodluck Jonathan led Federal Government and now hanger-on and serial addition to foreign events where Goodluck Jonathan is the sole actual invitee. Omokri (a graduate from the... Read More

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November 2, 2016

Annkio Briggs: Setting the agenda for the meeting between Niger Delta leaders and Pres. Buhari (Pt. 2)

by Annkio Briggs SETTING THE NIGER DELTA AGENDA [dropcap]A[/dropcap]s recently confirmed by Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu when he presented a roadmap for the development of the nation’s oil and gas industry at the Presidential Villa Abuja on Thursday the 27th of October, 2016 that President Buhari will meet with some... Read More

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N44m dowry, 22 year reign | The 5 numbers that mattered this week

The Thread: The reign of African dictators is coming to an end

LOL! This one tweet by @akaebube links Buhari’s confusion to Toke Makinwa’s marriage

Is OBJ really the most corrupt president ever? + more on The Slab with Isime

Pius Adesanmi: Finding crude oil in the North is Buhari’s understanding of economic diversification

Opinion: If Tinubu walks, Buhari will go

Opinion: Lt. Col. Muhammed Abu Ali | Our fallen heroes and arms-fund thieves

Opinion: Till debt do us apart

Opinion: Reactions to Trump’s Presidency – focus on Nigeria

Dele Momodu: The second coming of Goodluck Jonathan

Farooq Kperogi: Buhari’s phantom $500m donation to Clinton’s campaign

N3.6bn for cars, N200m for houses | The 5 numbers that mattered this week

Opinion: Dear President Buhari, the Nigerian Police is a monster; confront it

Timeline: President Buhari’s administration may actually be creating jobs

Femi Fani-Kayode: Head bloodied but not bowed (Pt. 1)

Famine, Niger Delta bombings and every other reason we should all be worried

Pius Adesanmi: Nigeria is the only place on earth with a mnemonic statute of limitation on murder

The Thread: Nigerians are tired of hunger and oppression | #BuhariMustGo

Reno Omokri: Fashola, Buhari and an administration bereft of ideas

Wilfred Okiche: The world is changing [NEW VOICES]

Farooq Kperogi: Making sense of Trump’s victory for Nigerians

Opinion: Still on Reuben Abati and Aso Rock demons

The Thread: Dear President Buhari, economic matters cannot be solved by force

Charly Boy: Fellow frustrated Nigerians, make it a date with us on November 15th

Opinion: What does President Trump mean for Nigeria?

Opinion: Accountability and the demons in Aso Villa

Opinion: Lt. Col. Abu Ali: Painful death of a gallant soldier

Reno Omokri: Buhari, Jonathan and a redefinition of change

Opinion: Re | Buhari, Jonathan and a redefinition of change

Annkio Briggs: Setting the agenda for the meeting between Niger Delta leaders and Pres. Buhari (Pt. 2)

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