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Sunday, 19 August 2018 04:43

How two years of Instagram Stories has altered the way we love, act and play - Olivia Ovenden

I first realised Instagram Stories had changed my friends while sitting outside a pub earlier this year. It was the point in a Friday night when drinks begin to linger on the table as everyone privately debates whether to go home.It wasn't a moment worth capturing, but when someone came back from the bar with a phone held up, everyone tried to make it look like one. Glasses were raised and middle fingers thrown at the camera to show the exaggerated hallmarks of people having fun.It was the same self-conscious performance I’d given when my boyfriend recorded me driving through…

Saturday, 18 August 2018 06:13

As another storm breaks - Edwin Madunagu

This piece is a dialogue with Nigerian Leftists – and all those who feel they share essential attributes with Leftists (socialists and pro-people radical democrats) but, for one reason or another, reject the “label” Leftists. The dialogue is driven by current political happenings and is here presented in form of notes, observations and propositions.Early in the morning of Thursday, August 9 - about 48 hours after armed detachments of Nigeria’s Secret Service operatives took over the National Assembly complex in Abuja – I sent a text message to a number of activist Nigerian Leftists. The message read: “For me, it…

Friday, 17 August 2018 06:04

If I were Saraki… by Steve Nwosu

Anybody who bought the cock and bull story about the federal government banning codeine and Tramadol obviously did not watch the two political rallies that held in Akwa Ibom State recently. I saw old men, many of them above 60 years old, jumping like they were on steroids, and telling lies that would leave the Devil green with envy. They were contradicting and condemning themselves with reckless abandon. And their equally ‘stoned’ audience clapped and giggled, with very few of them able to remember what they just heard, or why they were clapping in the first place. Only Tramadol, qat,…

Thursday, 16 August 2018 07:29

Between APC and PDP: Playing Bully and Victim Game - Jideofor Adibe

This is an interesting time for Nigerian politics. There is now a complete abandonment of any pretensions that 2019 is not the main determinant of the moves and counter moves of the two dominant political parties – the ruling APC, and the opposition PDP, which is eager to come back to power. Just like a good novel is sustained by suspense, political plots are also sustained by suspense and intrigues: what for instance will happen when the National Assembly reconvenes? Will the leadership of the National Assembly, especially that of the Senate, be changed? Will Saraki outmanoeuvre his traducers once…

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:45

Dauragate and the shame of a nation - Reuben Abati

The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015. Exactly a week ago, officers of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), acting under the instructions of their boss at the time, Lawal Daura, wearing hoods, stormed the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja, Gestapo-style, occupied the place and resorted to the harassment of National assembly workers, members of the Legislative Assembly who had rushed to the place, and civil society groups that heard of the assault and decided to witness the…

Saturday, 11 August 2018 05:52

Dismissal of Alhaji Lawal Daura: Not A Minute Too Soon - Abubakar Dangiwa Umar

Without a doubt, the summary dismissal, last week, of Alhaji Lawal Daura, Director-General, Department, State Security, came as a big surprise to many people. It seemed to contradict the world order!In the last three years, Lawal Daura had marched from one audacious act of impunity to another; had rudely defied the President, had routinely ignored court orders and seemed all but successful in curving out, for himself, a government within a government in Nigeria. There was hardly any observer of the turbulent Nigerian political scene over the last several years who still believed that Lawal Daura was subject to any…

Saturday, 11 August 2018 05:43

Nigerians Must Stop Buhari from Killing Nigeria - Tola Adeniyi

Nobody should by now be in doubt about President Muhammadu Buhari’s gory agenda for Nigeria. I wrote about this subject in a satiric article titled The Agenda (theeagleonline.com.ng/the-agenda-by-tola-adeniyi/) we cannot pretend to be unconcerned when hundreds of thousands of our fellow country men, women and children have been consigned to Internally Displaced Persons crammed camps all over half of the country, and yet we pretend not to be at war!Let me confess that I used to be one of Buhari’s most ardent fans. I was the founder of the Canada-based Global Intelligentsia for Buhari with members drawn from Europe, Asia,…

Thursday, 09 August 2018 06:22

Reflections on the DSS’s Siege of the National Assembly - Jideofor Adibe

The siege at the gate of the National Assembly complex by the operatives of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) on Monday August 7 2018, in which they shut out lawmakers for hours, has continued to dominate news headlines. The outcry that followed the siege was based mainly on concerns that the APC controlled federal government was trying to use strong-arm tactics and unconstitutional means to impeach the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.In this piece, I will reflect on the events of the siege and the likely fallouts from it:One, a major concern raised by…

Thursday, 09 August 2018 05:33

Lawal Daura: A long, lawless journey to dismissal

He flouted the constitution. He disregarded court orders. He grabbed citizens and held them incommunicado without charges. And then, he expressed no scruples about it all.Lawal Daura is now out of the State Security Service, but his ruthless exploits are unlikely to be forgotten by Nigerians for the foreseeable future.A native of Daura, Katsina State, who graduated from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Mr Daura joined the SSS in 1982. In 2003, he was appointed Deputy Director Presidential Communication, Command and Control Centre at the Presidential Villa, a position he held till 2007, according to his Wikipedia profile.He served as the…

Wednesday, 08 August 2018 06:14

Buhari Deserves no Credit for Osinbajo’s Swift Action - Farooq Kperogi

Anyone who gives credit to Buhari for the firing of Lawal Daura is being disingenuous. This is entirely Osinbajo’s initiative, which may (or may not) put him at odds with Buhari. Buhari is an absent president—in both symbolic and physical terms. That’s a nice way to say he is a lazy, incompetent, detached president who watches blithely as everything around him crumbles, as the nation groans and burns under the weight of his unprecedented ineptitude. And that's why it takes his physical absence for the country to have a chance to see a semblance of the presence of leadership.When the…

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Tuesday, 07 August 2018 04:38

The Asaba disgrace - Reuben Abati

“I think this is the first and last time I will come to Nigeria to compete. If you are not ready to organise something please don’t…It was three days of travel for some and two days for others; like you are travelling from Africa to Asia or America. I have been to four African Championships and it’s my first time to have that kind of bad organisation. No respect for the people.” – Marie Josee Ta Lou, Ivorian athlete. Shame on all the local organisers of the just concluded 21st Africa Senior Athletics Championships held in Asaba, Delta state tagged…

Sunday, 05 August 2018 05:26

Saraki the father, the son; Tinubu and the holy Buhari - Festus Adedayo

It was sometime in 2001. The political temperature of Kwara State had reached a troubling zenith. The godfather and his godson had declared a world war. Swords menaced swords, provoking fiery reverberations across Nigeria. Rear Admiral (rtd) Mohammed Alabi Lawal, now late, apparently egged on by his military pedigree, had put on acts like the Yoruba warriors of old. While declaring wars that conjured rivers of blood, those warriors literally spat skywards and thrust their red-eyed face to confront the rain of spittle. The eyes of Abubakar Olusola Saraki, Senate Leader in the Second Republic, better known as Baba Oloye,…

Saturday, 04 August 2018 04:33

Understanding APC and the crisis of defections - Reuben Abati

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the “factional” leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reportedly asked Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki to resign his position as Senate President. What exactly does the Comrade want Saraki to resign from- the Senate Presidency or even his membership of the Senate having won election into the Assembly in the first place on the platform of the APC? Oshiomhole also probably expects that other members of the APC who are occupying elective and appointive positions will also tender letters of resignation, having defected from the ruling APC. It is either the embattled party Chairman…

Friday, 03 August 2018 03:58

Notes on the “July events”. - Edwin Madunagu

For Nigerian Leftists currently studying or re-studying Nigerian politics, the month of July, 2018 has offered fresh and interesting materials. But for me and some close comrades, what has so far happened this month further clarifies – not by any means solved – several existing problems that may here be grouped into four: constructing a unified organization of the Nigerian Left; drafting a people’s manifesto; inserting into Nigeria’s electoral politics (as organized groups); and seeking electoral and non-electoral alliances. To these four tasks we may now add a fifth: Re-examining the concept of people’s revolution – as a complement to…

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