By 5 June when our 10th National Assembly will be proclaimed, a political tactician of uncommon hue, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would have crossed the first hurdle of taking a firm position to ensuring that dialogue and robust networking prevails over tantrums and bad blood in the emergence of...
OPINION
Punch should stop living in denial The latest in a series of some partisan editorials by some of this country’s newspapers seeking to rewrite recent history was published by the Punch newspaper paper this weekend, painting a bleak, pessimistic and frequently inaccurate picture of the state of our nation...
Though it’s been long known via research that when traumatic events –those involving anxiety and pains occur or are told to those who feel linked by identity to the victims- whether the shared identity is ethnic, religious, historical, cultural, linguistic or nationalistic, it can never produce emotional and physical...
Just this last weekend, I compared notes with my sources in the Obi and Atiku camps; both of them told me of their plans to stampede the tribunal judges through blackmail, to effect an annulment of the 2023 elections; the most credible elections I have seen in recent times....
Let me start by saying that I am not an indigene of Ekiti State but Oluwafunmilola, my beloved wife, is from the famous Awosusi family in Aramoko-Ekiti, which, by the by, is only a stone’s throw from Ijebu-Jesa, my Native Nazareth in Osun State. So, apart from being a...
The race for the position of President of the Nigerian Senate is daily assuming dimensions that evidently exemplify and validate its primacy in the balancing of political powers in Nigeria. At the innermost of the concentric power circles, position occupation is hinged on, or linked to the headships of...
In a move normally seen in Hollywood spy thrillers, Tukur Mamu, publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and an aide to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a popular Islamic cleric, was arrested in September last year at the Cairo International Airport on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj, and detained for 24...
The ruling All Progressives Congress is entitled to roll out the drums in an orgy of triumphalism. The feverish inauguration rehearsals at national and relevant state levels are all in order given the announced outcome of the last general election. After all, democratic succession is ultimately a ritual of...
It is a time-honored belief that for an average Nigerian leader, once a direction is chosen, instead of examining process meticulously and set the right course; one that will allow us to overcome storm and reach safety before we can progress and achieve our goals, many obstinately persist with...
….Set priority areas for the incoming Administration The Spokesperson of the Tinubu/ Shettima Independent Campaign Council (ICC) Barrister Olumide Braitwaite – a group that was involved in the door to door mobilization of APC voters in the recently held Presidential election. Mr. Olumide while speaking to Tribune Online on...
I have been sufficiently scandalized in the last few days by the varieties of reactions, seemingly procured or tainted, that have greeted the judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which reinstated Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume as a non-executive chairman of the Board of the...
After over a month in Paris, France, on vacation after a hectic campaign and enervating election season, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned home Monday proclaiming: “I’m ready for the task ahead.” One of the major tasks ahead that would arguably shape the impact of Tinubu’s first presidential term is...
Like every International days and weeks by the United Nations (UN) which is used to educate the public on issues of concern, mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity, the world going by reports, as part of activities lined...
But for an international conference that engaged Justice Inyang Ekwo outside the country on March 28, this year, and made it impossible for him to give his judgment in the suit by Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume against President Muhammadu Buhari and two others in which, as the plaintiff, he...
Mutatis mutandis, politics is not the same as repudiating the ethics of public administration. To say that the executive governor of a state has the right or power to stop the payment of workers’ salary – what they earn legitimately – is, to say the least, an evolution throwback!...
In a tragic sense, Sudan is somehow lucky. Its leading political figures, who also happen to be combatant generals, have not hidden their differences beneath a façade of mutual deceit. They have instead allowed their differences to blossom into an open bloody confrontation. The two top generals who also...
Nigeria is a country in West Africa that is rich in natural resources and is the most populous country on the continent. With a population of over 200 million people, there is a high demand for housing, which makes real estate a profitable industry to invest in. Let’s explore...
There is a Peter Obi witch-hunt that is ongoing. Undoubtedly, certain forces are after him. You can call it Obidients-phobia or Obi-phobia. Both are equal in the eyes of the attackers. These sustained attacks on Obi, Datti, his running mate, as well as the Labour Party and the Obidient...
A cross section of men residing in New Nyanya and Mararaba Area of Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State have expressed admiration for trending braided or weavon wigs worn by women. In their interactions with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, the men described the trend...
Akpet is a community in Biase Local Government Area of Cross River it is blessed with commercial deposit of minerals such as limestone, lithium ore, lepidolite, spodumene, and laterite The community attracts lots visitors. While some come to explore business opportunities in the area, others visit to exploit the...