Femi Gbajabiamila
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, lately responded to the critics who have rightfully described the 9th assembly as mere a rubber stamp of the executive arm of the government. Gbajabiamila launched into his self-justification at an event … Read the rest
Mrs Aisha Buhari is in support of the Social media bill
For the second time within a month, a Nigerian politician has held up China as a model for Nigeria’s governance. First, it was the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali (retd.), falsely affirming that China became … Read the rest
To understand how badly Nigeria’s democratic ethos has sunk, look no further than the desperation of the advocacy organisation, Soico-Economic Rights Advocacy Project. They resorted to begging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby, to appeal to President … Read the rest
Babatunde Raji Fashola
By Abimbola Adelakun
When the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said last week Wednesday that Nigerian roads were not as bad as they are often portrayed, he got a lot of flak from longsuffering Nigerians who scored … Read the rest
Abimbola Adelakun
On Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, the judge presiding over the “treasonable felony” case of Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow, expressed concern that Sowore and his co-accused person had not perfected their bail conditions of October 4. Justice Ojukwu, who had … Read the rest
Xenophobic attack in South Africa
During the meeting of world leaders at Paris, President of the African Development Bank and former Agriculture Minister, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, trended on the social media. He had been pictured with different world leaders at the G7 meeting, and before … Read the rest
On Saturday, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, spoke at the Northern Youth Summit organised to deliberate on developing northern Nigeria. He painted a picture of Nigeria’s defective growth and development. El-Rufai said two countries presently inhabit the womb of Nigeria … Read the rest
Last week, at a private event in Lagos, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, ruffled elitist feathers when he laid out the blueprint for the possible defeat of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political hegemony over Lagos State. The response might … Read the rest
Abimbola Adelakun
Shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in in 2015, I visited an elderly man, and we got talking about the country. Readers will recall that the first three months after Buhari became President, there was such stable power supply … Read the rest
Abimbola Adelakun
At some point, future historians of the present will give Donald Trump some credit for aptly summarising the dynamics of political following of our time. During his presidential campaigns, he bragged that he was so loved by his followers that … Read the rest
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