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EFCC watch: Why voices like Hushpuppi cannot be hushed

by Alexander O. Onukwue As at Friday morning, a Google Search on Hushpuppi turns up, amongst a few scanty results, a link to the EFCC Twitter handle. It is probable that the search engine’s crawlers have registered the conversations on social media about reporting Hushpuppi to the anti-graft agency. The call was suggested by KCee,... Read More

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Is Bill Cosby the goal for Evans’ lawyers?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Just in case you need a reminder, Bill Cosby is the American comedian and actor whose trial on the charge of non-consensual sexual assault resulted in a mistrial. Cosby was a long-standing darling of American TV for more than half a century, but always had skeletons in his cupboard with his... Read More

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Don’t freak out when Evans, the billionaire kidnapper hires your favourite SAN

by Alexander O. Onukwue When money talks, anything bold and serious works, regardless of whether a kidnapper is involved or not. After the coverage eased off for some days, Evans has come back in the news. He has taken the fight to the Police by filing a suit on the basis of unlawful detention. “Filing... Read More

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Evans Suit: What’s the worst that could happen?

by Alexander O. Onukwue It’s only a suit asking for him to either be tried now or untied, but could Evans really be up to something here? He may have nothing sinister in mind. After all he has confessed, it could be that Evans wants to suffer everything at once rather than have to spend... Read More

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Evans Headache: How will the Police swallow this bitter pill?

by Alexander O. Onukwue While Evans the billionaire kidnapper waited for his Nollywood adaptation, photoshop geeks went to work and turned up with the ‘Evans Paracetamol’. The byline to the comic image is that all headaches will be kidnapped, thanks to the swiftness and efficiency of the Evans Paracetamol. After the glorious mission of the... Read More

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Advantage Evans! The billionaire kidnapper is not going down without a fight

by Alexander O. Onukwue Evans, the billionaire kidnapper, has asked the Inspector General of Police to release him. This became public knowledge on Wednesday, 28th June, with reports that Evans has filed a suit against the IGP for unlawful detention. Arrested on the 10th of June by officers of a special unit of the Nigerian... Read More

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Is anyone thinking about the costs of restructuring?

by Alexander O. Onukwue If a referendum is held on the question of restructuring Nigeria, it is more than likely that there will be a wide margin victory for the Yes campaign. Or for the Vote Leave, depending on what the question is. Either way, there are bound to be costs to be borne if... Read More

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Restructuring is the politician’s game; Here’s the layman’s concern

by Alexander O. Onukwue How many persons pay attention to the radio when OAP’s use words like restructuring, misappropriation and diversification? It does feel, sometimes, that these big words make such matters exclusively reserved for the more intellectual members of the society. In such circumstances, regular people get turned off from the media and just... Read More

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While you wait for restructuring, this should be your focus right now

by Alexander O. Onukwue Everyone is bombarding the Federal Government and the cabal that continues to hold Nigeria to ransom with the queries of restructuring. Former leaders and modern influencers are weighing in, adding support to the clamour for the structure of the nation to be modified to give greater autonomy to states in the... Read More

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Should the old restructure Nigeria for the youth?

by Alexander O. Onukwue As the discussion on the restructuring of Nigeria takes up the conversation space, the matter of the persons to carry-out the process has necessarily been brought up. Very many persons, old and young, believe the present structure of the country is a contraption bound to worsen by the day. But not... Read More

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Ibrahim Babangida

Opposing restructuring in order to champion it later is the favourite political game

by Alexander O. Onukwue The buzz word for the week in Nigeria’s political discourse is: Restructuring. It is the song and poem on the lips of commentators and politicians, as agitations in every part of the country ramp up the pressure on Government to improve the living conditions in the country. Amongst those who have... Read More

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Fashola vs NASS: Supreme Court a bit too far?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Fashola wants to fully get in the ring with the National Assembly by asking the Supreme Court to determine the extent of its powers in altering the Federal Budget. “Being an institutional and not a personal issue, it won’t be out of place to seek a resolution of the conflict at... Read More

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Fashola vs NASS: The waste of money bit is about right

by Alexander O. Onukwue One of Fashola’s arguments against the change of projects in the budget provisions of the executive is the waste that accrues from the process. The former Lagos Governor who has served as a Federal Minister since August 2015 made the remark while criticizing the National Assembly’s decision to alter parts of... Read More

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Fashola vs NASS: Five quips from the Minister that totally shades NASS

by Alexander O. Onukwue He made observations that, as a Federal Minister, he was well entitled to make, and they came for him. In his response, he has taken no prisoners. Babatunde Fashola’s response was long and bruising, fending off the personal attacks against him from the National Assembly. Here are five of the best... Read More

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Mind the gap: How inept are Nigerian lawmakers?

by Alexander O. Onukwue At a time when the United States Senate is being grilled in the media and by the Congressional Budget Office over the numbers involved in replacing the Affordable Care Act (alias Obamacare) with the American HealthCare Act, the Nigerian Senate is facing questions as to the rationale behind replacing mega road... Read More

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Explainer: The fuss between Fashola and the senate

by Alexander O. Onukwue The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has been in a war of words with the National Assembly over the recently signed 2017 Budget. In an interview , Fashola argued without any apologies that the Senate had tampered heavily with the budget of its Ministry adding items which he... Read More

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President Buhari

How can we get our President back?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The UK are obviously too distracted by their own problems to be bothered that the President of Nigeria has been held hostage in their capital. President Buhari has spent the last seven weeks at a location in London, undergoing a medical procedure that has been described by some as recuperation and... Read More

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Slow Country: The Eid Speech is a culmination of the Buhari journey so far

by Alexander O. Onukwue How does the President of a country, a multi-ethnic nation like Nigeria, come to the idea of issuing a national address in his native language? The audio recording of his speech, aired on several platforms including the BBC, has President Buhari apparently extending good compliments of the season in Hausa language.... Read More

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Is President Buhari impaired in speech?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The audio message released by the Presidency as the Sallah felicitations of President Buhari has been the subject of debate and controversy on social media. Amidst murmurings that Buhari, who has been in London for seven straight weeks without any verbal communication, is suffering from speech impairment, the Presidency decided it... Read More

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Buhari’s Eid speech is an unnecessary distraction to Osinbajo

by Alexander O. Onukwue President Buhari has been in the news for the past 48 hours, not for returning to Nigeria from a vacation that has now lasted 50 days, but for a speech apparently given by him in Hausa language to commemorate Eid-al-Fitr. The contentious speech has generated a lot of buzz in media... Read More

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Buhari’s Eid speech in Hausa was awful

by Alexander O. Onukwue Why did the advisers of President Buhari allow a national speech in Hausa language to become public knowledge? In the first place, there are doubts that it was President Buhari himself who had given the speech, but it may have been better if it were so. The purported Eid speech to... Read More

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Voice of Falz, but words of Femi Falana?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Why has Falz come out to criticise fraudulent behaviour? The actor, singer and comedian made the observation that entertainers should paint good pictures and tell good stories instead of preaching 419 and glorifying fraudulent behaviour. It was not an act by Falz, even if he passed the comment with his signature... Read More

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Falz vs 9ice: This is how to explain “the realm” of the Hard Life Hustle

by Alexander O. Onukwue 9ice talked about “the realm” – the experience you need to have had in life for you to appreciate the message of “Living Things”. Most of you all are born with a silver spoon. You don’t know what the life of a ghetto child is. Your dad is a big man... Read More

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Falz vs 9ice: Hey 9ice, you know that wasn’t nice, right?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Have another look at that video that showed 9ice’s making a response to the comments by Falz about “Living Things” and other songs with such “mo fe chache” lyrics. What do you see? A defiant defender of his words, or a meek penitent admitting that his last act was actually a... Read More

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Falz vs 9ice: It’s a fact that subliminal messaging is the selling point of music

by Alexander O. Onukwue If you don’t talk money, don’t show up. I’m a Hitler, I’m Abacha. We’ve been fed constantly by the flows and rhymes of often not-so-tasty lyrics of music for as long as we can all remember. It did not begin with “Living Things” and it sure won’t end with it. For... Read More

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Falz-a Furious: Why 9ice’s lyrics had to push Falz to speak

by Alexander O. Onukwue The opinion of Folarin Falana, alias Falz the Bahd Guy, on the issue of glorifying fraudulent behaviour through music has sparked views on social media. Falz criticised entertainers who, as role models to young persons, misused their platforms of influence to send wrong messages that encourage illegal activities. It was a thinly-veiled... Read More

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Melaye Recall: Mahmoud’s chance to be a Jega

by Alexander O. Onukwue The 2019 elections are going to commence in less than 20 months time. Politicians and political parties have began their scheming and in the months that lead up to the election days, no other Nigerian becomes as important as the Chairman of INEC. But for Prof Mahmoud, the moment of focus... Read More

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Dino Melaye: Going! Going! Good to Go!

by Alexander O. Onukwue The process for the recall of Dino Melaye from the Senate has began in earnest. This follows the acknowledgement by INEC that they have received the petition from the registered voters in Kogi West Senatorial district. In a statement, INEC stated that they will announce the date for the commencement of... Read More

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Melaye Recall: Bad Belle Bello? Nobody cares really

by Alexander O. Onukwue INEC received the petition for the recall of Dino Melaye, together with six bags containing the over 180,000 signatures of Kogi West electorates. The bags were, of course, mostly Ghana-must-Go bags, and in Nigerian political parlance, those only ever contain one thing. We know bottles are used to sell kerosene in... Read More

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Dino Melaye: We gonna miss him when he’s gone?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Dino Melaye, a self-acclaimed democratic evangelist and anti-corruption crusader, has had the rare privilege of being both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There was some substance to his allegations against then Speaker of the House, Dimeji Bankole, on the matter of... Read More

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