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Is Jonathan a Beautiful Bride ?

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By Ray Ekpu The crowd that is chanting Run, Jonathan, Run is a composite contingent made up of greedy and hungry fellows, rented fellows, political flunkeys of the basest type and those who think that Nigeria may be ready for any kind of political tomfoolery at this time. Ordinarily, a man who
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Donors Or Aspirants: The N100m Game Plan

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By Kunle Awosiyan Before President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, a close politician once told me that to win a presidential seat in Nigeria, a candidate must have saved about N37 billion. This amount is different from what he must have spent to win his party’s primaries. That is why it will always be difficult to defeat […]
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2023: Neither Tinubu nor Osinbajo is fit

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By Tunde Odesola Tossed up, Nigeria’s spinning politics is a coin with three sides: head, tail and middle. All three sides came into play on Friday when a photograph taken at the South-West presidential aspirants’ meeting of the All Progressives Congress hit the internet with a twist in the tail. In the photograph, some of […]
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2023: North And Its Power Game

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 By Kazeem Akintunde Northern power brokers are back in the trenches, scheming how the region will retain political power in the country come 2023. Their plan is to ensure that as many presidential aspirants as possible emerge from the south while they would prop up a single aspirant from the region to slug it out […]
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Of Banditry and a Shared Sovereignty (1)

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By Hassan Gimba  In the book The Impact of Banditry on Nigeria’s Security in the Fourth Republic: An Evaluation of Nigeria’s Northwest by Rosenje, Musharafa Olapeju (PhD) and Adeniyi, Oluwatobi Peter, both of the Department of Political Science, Tai Solarin University of Education, first published on 30/04/2021, the authors posited that “Banditry is fast becoming
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Tears of Osinach Nwachukwu

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By Oluseyi Dasilva My beloved,With all my heart,With all my body,With all my pride,With all what God made me,With all that God made of me,With all that people know me to be,With all my aspirationsWith all my accomplishments,I submitted to you, as demanded by God and loved you against parental wishes.The society was against our […]