Like many at home and abroad, I am sick and tired of hearing both the Nigerian government and a lot of the media classifying the terrorists ravaging Zamfara state as bandits. The false designation of these bloodthirsty terrorists of the highest caliber, as “bandits”, a word that
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By Kunle Odufuwa The attack on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by outgoing Senate President, Bukola Saraki and outgoing Speaker, House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara is understandable. They are both politically paralysed characters desperately trying to get back to their feet. For Saraki, for the first time in twenty years, he would find himself politically ostracised […]
National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, appears like a man who listens only to himself. And this came to the fore last week, when he spoke at the reception for members-elect of the House of Representatives of the incoming Ninth Assembly. He had addressed this same set of lawmakers some […]
IN ordinary man’s parlance, Dem Say, dem say means gossip. But in Abuja, it is a popular news programme hosted by the multi-talented James Expensive on Abuja’s crowd-pulling FM station, Wazobia 99.5. You will never know the state of origin of the host of the programme. He speaks the deep Oyo/Lagos Yoruba; he speaks Igbo […]
Members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Sokoto State have before now accused the Sultan of Sokoto of open partisanship in support of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in the just concluded election. They also accused INEC officials of colluding with the incumbent governor and security agents to manipulate the election. Professor […]
TWO events stand out of all the moves aimed at who gets what in the 9th National Assembly last week. First was the gathering of Reps-elect at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, where the main speaker was the chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. And the second was held at the Presidential […]
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