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Monday, 07 January 2019 05:05

Amina Zakari is lying about her relationship with Buhari - Farooq Kperogi

Mrs. Amina Zakari just said to the BBC, “I’m not [Buhari’s] niece.” That’s flat-out mendacious. And it puts a huge question mark on her honesty, probity, and trustworthiness. A person who can lie this casually about something as basic and as verifiable as her relationships is disreputable and unworthy of the responsibility she's been entrusted with at INEC. So what is the truth? In a December 27, 2018 article, Mohammed Haruna, former Daily Trust columnist and current INEC commissioner, confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s biological sister was once married to Mrs. Amina Zakari’s father. That makes Amina Buhari’s niece. This…

Friday, 04 January 2019 05:11

Nigeria 2019: Hoping for another reprieve? - Edwin Madunagu

In a couple of weeks Nigeria will begin another round of general elections. This coming round of the four-yearly ritual, re-started by Nigeria’s ruling class in 1999 to herald the Fourth Republic, will be different in at least two respects from earlier ones. In the first place, the number of officially participating political parties and candidates will be very much larger; and, in the second place, there are participating parties and candidates that are Leftist or socialist, and are officially named and listed as such. However, only about five or six of the participating political parties can actually be described,…

Thursday, 03 January 2019 04:41

Osinbajo and the Politics of 2023 - Jideofor Adibe

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo raised the stakes in the politics of 2023 when he added his voice to the politics of ethnic baiting. Speaking during a visit to the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola, on December 22 2013, the Vice President was quoted as saying: “Yoruba have a crucial role to play in the 2019 elections so ensure that APC wins. We are looking at 2023. If we don’t do so well in 2019, the opportunity might evade us.” Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, who accompanied the Vice President to the visit, reportedly went a few steps further.…

Sunday, 30 December 2018 06:18

How Nigeria killed Badeh, Alkali - Festus Adedayo

The gory pictures of General Idris Alkali in soiled shroud as he was ferreted out of the shallow well his traducers dumped him and General Alex Badeh, felled by evil doers will forever prey on the minds of their families and friends. The Nigerian Army, after weeks of searching for the remains of Retired General Alkali, had discovered his body in a shallow grave at a place called “No man’s land” in a community called Lafande. He had been killed on September 3, 2018 on the outskirts of the Jos metropolis, in Dura-Du District of the Jos South Local Government…

Friday, 28 December 2018 03:54

Heckling is part of the democratic process - Jideofor Adibe

News that President Muhammadu Buhari was interrupted and booed intermittently by some lawmakers while presenting the appropriation bill to National Assembly recently has been trending on the social media. Also trending is a list of the lawmakers said to have booed the President during the rowdy session. As should be expected, PDP issued a statement claiming it had it on good authority that the presidency was compiling names of its members that participated in heckling the President either for DSS/Police to invite them on trumped up charges or for EFCC to find something to rope around their necks. There are…

Thursday, 27 December 2018 04:22

Amosun unaware of his political nakedness - Tunde Emilola-Gazal

The story, Ali and the Angels, in one of the books that were read in primary schools in the early 70s, comes to my mind as I ruminate over the political situation in Ogun State. In that story, the king of a town, desired to have the best cloth ever made. Ali, a subject of the king, brought an imaginary cloth and told the king that it was the most beautiful cloth, only visible to those who are pure. Sinners cannot see the cloth, he told the king. He gave it to the monarch and urged him to put it…

Wednesday, 26 December 2018 04:22

2023 and Osinbajo’s song of ... - Yinka Odumakin

A week after he stuttered at the vice-presidential debate in Abuja, as result of functioning in Lai’s lane, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was at the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo last weekend to shred whatever vestige of credibility he has left for crass political opportunism. The otherwise cerebral professor did not have to stammer this time around as he sang the scoundrel song his two other Lagos competitors (Messrs Bola Tinubu and Raji Fashola have been miming) for the illusory 2023 presidential slot: a vote for Buhari is the surest route to Yoruba presidency in 2023. Our elders from the…

Wednesday, 26 December 2018 04:20

Integrity without credibility - Sonala Olumhense

In the same week in which former military chief Alex Badeh was shot to death on an open road, journalism professor Farooq Kperogi was ousted from Daily Trust, the newspaper where he cut his teeth 20 years ago and for which he had continued to write. The presidency immediately ordered the security agencies to “fish out” Badeh’s killers. They won’t, as sadly, the era of assassinations Nigeria first experienced under PDP has returned. That era, like this one, had little room for justice. On the other hand, Kperogi himself identifies those behind the termination of his weekly Daily Trust column:…

Wednesday, 26 December 2018 04:19

Globalization 4.0 for whom? - Winnie Byanyima

Imagine a world in which women and girls have their rights respected, climate change receives the attention it so urgently requires, and poverty has been eliminated. Never before have we had the means that we have now to make this vision a reality. In Africa, for example, I am excited to see how off-grid solar energy is expanding rapidly. In Kenya, mobile banking has significantly improved financial inclusion, particularly for poor women. These and other technologies associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) have the potential to boost productivity, incomes, and leisure time for workers, while also decarbonizing our economies…

Tuesday, 25 December 2018 03:13

The uncommon power of grace - Peter Wehner

A revolutionary idea lies at its core: radical equality. In his book “What’s So Amazing About Grace?” Philip Yancey describes a conference on comparative religions where experts from around the world debated which belief, if any, was unique to the Christian faith. C.S. Lewis happened to enter the room during the discussion. When he was told the topic was Christianity’s unique contribution among world religions, Lewis responded: “Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.” Lewis was right. No other religion places grace at its theological center. It was a revolutionary idea; as Mr. Yancey puts it, grace “seems to go against every…

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Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:26

The beheaded boy by Ogun River bank - Festus Adedayo

On the morning of September 21, 2001, the dismembered body of a boy was found by the Thames River, near Tower Bridge in Central London, United Kingdom. He was putting on orange girls’ shorts and paraphernalia of voodoo ensconced the remains. The Metropolitan Police was astounded but it knew it wasn’t dealing with a strange phenomenon. It was said that on the average in London yearly, the Met Police and the Coroner’s Court have on their hands between forty and forty-five cases of bodies retrieved from Thames. Preliminary evidence pieced together by the police revealed that the torso was that…

Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:24

Do election debates really matter? - Jideofor Adibe

Since the Vice Presidential debate on December 14 2018 between the candidates of selected five political parties, there have been continuous spin not only on who won the debate but also on whether Buhari would show up for the presidential debate slated for January 19 2019. The debate, which was organized by the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), featured the following Vice Presidential candidates: Abdulganiyu Galadima (Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN); Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya (Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN); Yemi Osinbajo (All Progressives Congress (APC); Peter Obi (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP), and Umma…

Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:00

Dr. Google is a liar

Haider Warraich Fake news threatens our democracy. Fake medical news threatens our lives. It started during yoga class. She felt a strange pull on her neck, a sensation completely foreign to her. Her friend suggested she rush to the emergency room. It turned out that she was having a heart attack. She didn’t fit the stereotype of someone likely to have a heart attack. She exercised, did not smoke, watched her plate. But on reviewing her medical history, I found that her cholesterol level was sky high. She had been prescribed a cholesterol-lowering statin medication, but she never picked up…

Monday, 17 December 2018 02:52

A dozen reasons for Buhari’s re-election - Garba Shehu

Today Monday December 17, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari who is seeking re-election for a second term of office marks his 76th birthday and, in his own words, “still going strong.” His age is no longer an issue in this campaign because by the will of God, not by any design, his main challenger is equally in the same age bracket. This election in February next year then comes down to what each candidate will offer. There are many reasons why President Buhari deserves to be re-elected. I shall speak to a dozen of them here:He is the best ever President…

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