Few weeks ago, I was at the local airport and as I waited in the departure lounge, I noticed there were many children roaming about but it was understandable since it was summer holiday. One other thing I noticed was the way most of the children were dressed. Most of them, especially the girls, were […]
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Consider the curious case of New Jersey in 1916: That summer, there was a string of deadly shark attacks along the Jersey Shore. As a result, Woodrow Wilson lost his home state in the presidential election. Why, you ask? Because the beachfront towns (which rely on tourism) were negatively impacted by the attacks. Though Wilson […]
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Corruption is fighting back! That is the constant refrain from the people in government and their supporters to criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari or opposition to his re-election ambition. If, for example, you’re a journalist and you believe the President hasn’t done enough to earn a second term, it is because brown envelopes have been […]
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It was 24 hours after the official release of my book, “An Encounter with the Spymaster” in July 2017 that I received an invitation from a top retired Airforce officer for a meeting with the then Director General of Department of State Service (DSS), Lawal Daura. Before the invitation, a Presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu […]
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It’s no longer news that Sen. Godwill Akpabio has left the PDP for APC. As surprising and perverse the decision may be, as democrats, we don’t have any option but to respect his fundamental right of association and expression, as enshrined in the constitution. I will not call Sen. Akpabio a “looter” simply because he […]
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We sat down apprehensively in the office of the Editor of the National Concord [Daily], Nsikak Essien, evaluating emerging events in Nigerian turbulent political terrain of the time. The atmosphere in the room was actually tense. Ditto the whole country. It was one day [I have forgotten the exact day] in the month of November, […]
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FROM: By Yinka Ibukun and Mustapha Muhammad Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid is facing a growing challenge as members of his party defect to the opposition and support diminishes in a key region that’s stood by him politically for 15 years: the north. Home to about 40 percent of the West African nation’s voters, Nigeria’s North East […]
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When we wrote much earlier that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party was a coalition of strange bedfellows and a one-chance special purpose vehicle to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan by all and any means possible, we were accused of sour grapes. When we argued even much earlier that […]
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I stand before you today fully cognizant, as are many of you in this audience, that these days are not the best for Nigeria. At the risk of being called prophets of doom, we really have no choice than to admit that our country, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, lies in the paths of sundry […]
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When Hitler started killing Jews, some Jews benefitting from Hitler were also defending him. It was not long before Hitler came for their heads. Keep defending evil. Keep defending Nigerian Hitler. The other day it was innocent IPOB Christians. Yesterday it was powerless Middle Belt Christian women and children. Tomorrow it may be you. You sitting […]
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