NEWS is also an acronym for North, East, West and South, the four cardinal points that are crucial to cartographers, town planners, surveyors, ship captains, aircraft pilots, operators of airport control towers and minders of another acronym, Global Positioning System, a satellite-based radionavigation system. What is common in these days of adversarial politics is that…
Now that the 2023 general elections, which include the destiny shaping presidential election, are approaching, Nigerians must be warming up to their duties as responsible citizens, with voting being the most foundational. The presidential, governorship and legislative candidates that emerged from the recently concluded political party primaries must be anxiously looking forward to knowing their…
Some friends said they didn’t believe it when another friend, who is co-anchor of a TV morning show, said he didn’t know when he ran into a BRT dedicated lane after being (mis)led by some other motorists and his Google street finder. They were, however, impressed that the fine gentleman apologised in a mature and…
Have you observed that instead of telling Nigerians what they would do to sort Nigeria out, after the peculiar (penkelemesi) mess created by the regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari, (retd), many of the presidential candidates are discussing inanities? Well, except Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, who is arguing that rather than…
It’s okay that banks have gotten the approval of the Federal Government to take over some non-performing Electricity Distribution Companies. They are getting their due. Most of the owners neither had the technical nor the financial know-how needed to run the lemons they forced their way into buying, anyway. Three of the Discos were considered…
Somebody once argued that political parties are formed to advance personal interests, which they present in the form of the amorphous national interest, the pretend result of the (unsigned) social contract between voters and elected officials. Indeed, the military that ruled Nigeria for nearly half of the years that Nigeria has been independent has somewhat…
One proof that oil crime pays in Nigeria is the Federal Government’s award of N4 billion per month of oil pipelines security to Government “Tompolo” Ekpemupolo, a former Nigerian commander of the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (and the chief priest of the Egbesu deity, Niger Delta god of war). It’s…
Last week, the Nigerian Bar Association held its 62nd Annual Convention titled, “Bold Transitions,” and brought presidential candidates of some political parties to unveil the path they might be taking Nigeria if they became President of Nigeria in 2023. Both former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, respective presidential candidates…
Some argue that the Risorgimento — just a big word for the revival — of the political energy of Nigerian youths is coming on the heels of two separate movements whose dreams were cut short by Nigeria’s ancien regime politicians. The first is the spontaneous #EndSARS, the highly profound youth protest against police brutality. In September 2020, its…
You know too well that the Naira is weaker than it was when President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015. It looks as if he came, like nearly all his predecessors in the Fourth Republic, to oversee the depreciation of the Naira. How else do you explain that the Naira crashed from the official rate…