By Owei Lakemfa TEN WEEKS before the contentious and increasingly violent general elections in the country, Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court Abuja nullified the leadership of one of the two main opposition parties, the African Democratic Congress (ADC). He did not only purport to remove the David Mark-Rauf Aregbesola leadershi...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “In Japan, a corrupt person kills himself. In China, they kill him. In Europe, they jail him. (But) In Africa, he presents himself for election!”– Prof. PLO Lumumba. WHY WILL a person accused of corruption in Japan kill himself even before he is hauled before the court, tried, found guilty, and sentenced? […]...
By Owei Lakemfa I DO not know where His Excellency Hope Odidika Uzodimma lives. He is Governor of Imo State but is reported from Abuja so frequently that I have come to the conclusion that he lives in Abuja but visits Imo State. He is so much in and around the Aso Rock Presidential Villa […]
By Steve Osuji NEVER TRY to convince me that a dog is a monkey! This is a brutal Yoruba adage. The saying mocks someone who’s telling what is regarded as a ‘foolish lie’. Someone who tries to deceive and cheaply hoodwink another. Maa pe aja l’obo funmi, the victim would retort, always angrily. It also […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE NIGERIANS ARE feverishly preparing for another General Election. Presidential and National Assembly elections have been slated for Saturday, 16 January, 2027 while governorship and state House of Assembly elections come up two weeks after – on Saturday, 6 February, 2027. The elections will gulp over a trillion Naira; yet...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE AS THEY say, I do not know Tinubu’s Minister of Finance, Taiwo Oyedele, from Adams; meaning that I am not related to him in any way. I have had no relationship or affinity with him; I have never met him in person; and I have never spoken to him or exchanged any […]
By Steve Osuji PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu seeks a second term in office. Desperately so. A second term of office is his right and entitlement to seek, of course. But it is also incumbent and indeed, the duty of every Nigerian to demand that the president must give account of the first four years. However, by […]
By Owei Lakemfa THE ONGOING mass protests in France were ignited and led by students. They are the segment of society to which all shades and classes of society belong. When such a class reaches consensus and hits the streets, as it has done in parts of Europe in the last few weeks, change in […]
By Olukorede Yishau TELLING RIVETING-but-tragic love stories in ways that are elevated, in a style that is not banal or soppy but rather as important additions to the corpus of good writing is something Abubakar Adam Ibrahim knows how to do. In his first novel, the Nigeria Prize for Literature-winning ‘Season of Crimson Blossoms’, the [&helli...
By Bola BOLAWOLE LAST SATURDAY, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu flagged off his campaign towards the 2027 presidential election in Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna state and the political capital of the once monolithic and behemoth North, but which is now fast- and vastly receding in influence and power. No empire lasts forever! They reach their [&he...
