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Monday, 24 October 2016 14:55

Aisha Buhari is the icon of the moment

Edel-Quinn Agbaegbu For over one week, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, Nigeria's reigning First Lady has been dominating the media space in Nigeria. Given the weight of what she said recently, which went viral on the internet, Mrs Buhari words are now a quotable quote in many public statements, articles and commentaries in the country. She must have also made wide impact globally, as the world is now a global village, thanks to online media and innovations in communication technology. By a mere expression of her view, against the modus operandi in the administration of a democratic government where her husband is…

Monday, 24 October 2016 01:27

Is ‘Project Buhari’ falling off?

Simon Kolawole There is a confession I’ve been longing to make: I never expected Candidate Muhammadu Buhari to win the 2015 presidential election. Although I have never hidden my soft spot for him for decades, I somehow expected President Goodluck Jonathan to be returned by any means. I had my reason: I thought no sitting president could be defeated in Nigeria. He has CBN, NNPC, INEC, police, military and even FRSC at his beck and call. How would he lose? We all saw the ridiculous results that returned President Olusegun Obasanjo to office in 2003. That made me conclude that…

Sunday, 23 October 2016 03:19

The unspiritual side of Aso Villa

Femi Adesina Let me begin with two clarifications. Aso Villa is not my home, I am just passing through. Even this world is nobody’s home, we are just birds of passage. So, let nobody turn up his nose in derision, and say; “he’s writing like the landlord of Aso Villa, defending a place where’s he’s just a tenant.” Yes, nobody is landlord in the Villa, not even rational presidents. They can only live there for maximum of eight years, if Nigerians so decide. And for me, my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels only need to…

Saturday, 22 October 2016 17:45

Lady in the kitchen: Twitter versus old school

Francis Ojo The issues between our old President and his young lovely wife Aisha would pose no problem in Daura Sharia court before an old Islamic Grand Khadi. Buhari would no doubt have been victorious, been allowed to holler: “ I divorce you, I divorce you and finally for the third time, I divorce you” and all would be over. Then the bitter struggle between prominent Fulani families including royal ones to donate brand new (tear rubber) teenage wives for the prominent citizen would have begun. But alas, Aisha set Baba up royally, real good! She chose the setting, (International)…

Friday, 21 October 2016 16:42

The decline of the West, and how to stop it

Javier Solana and Strobe Talbott For most of the last 70 years, the United States, Canada and much of Europe have constituted a vast zone of peace, prosperity and democracy. The trans-Atlantic community has grown to over 900 million inhabitants of more than 30 countries. It has set an example for regional cooperation in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, and served as a mainstay of the liberal world order. That achievement is in jeopardy. The bonds within Europe have been fraying for some time, but this year has been the worst yet. Last month, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union’s…

Friday, 21 October 2016 02:29

Aisha Buhari as a metaphor

Jideofor Adibe Let me start this piece by narrating a story I read somewhere about a certain three- year old boy whose father was the President of their country. Let’s call this boy John. One day the country was celebrating an important anniversary. Many citizens lined up the route through which the President was being driven in an open jeep, at an incredibly low speed. They were waving their country’s flag in the spirit of that celebration while the President acknowledged with the waving of his right hand. John and his mother were among the crowd. His mother had carried…

Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:52

Of Aso Rock demons and ‘the Other Room’

Olusegun Adeniyi I woke up last Friday to find on my handset messages with strange questions: Is it true that people bath with blood in Aso Rock? Are there demons in Aso Rock that make leaders take decisions that are not in the public interest? Did you ever notice anybody walking head to the ground at the villa? Is strange death a common phenomenon for people who work in Aso Rock? Can you still perform your bedroom functions as a husband? The questions, which I considered rather weird and ridiculous, kept coming in torrents; and even when a few made…

Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:12

Nigeria’s failed promises

Chimamanda Ngozi I was 7 years old the first time I recognized political fear. My parents and their friends were talking about the government, in our living room, in our relatively big house, set on relatively wide grounds at a southeastern Nigerian university, with doors shut and no strangers present. Yet they spoke in whispers. So ingrained was their apprehension that they whispered even when they did not need to. It was 1984 and Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was the military head of state. Governmental controls had mangled the economy. Many imported goods were banned, scarcity was rife, black markets…

Tuesday, 18 October 2016 15:01

A hater of women and a President from the dark ages

Femi Fani-Kayode “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me”- Psalm 23. I recited this scripture three times and waited on the Lord quietly and calmly when I heard that my wife and son had been unlawfully apprehended and detained in a bank in far away Ado Ekiti on the orders of the EFCC whilst I was in Lagos. Somebody should tell Mumu Buhari to stop sending his goons to abduct other peoples wives and 8 month old infant…

Tuesday, 18 October 2016 01:25

The unaired part of Mrs Buhari's interview

Jaafar Jaafar At the heat of the intense pressure mounted on the BBC to stop airing the remaining part of the controversial Aisha Buhari interview a few days ago, I had the privilege of listening to the interview before it was fully aired. My good friend, the Head of the Abuja bureau of the BBC, Naziru Mika'il Abubakar, invited me to his office for comment on the interview, and directed that it be played to me before recording my comment. Listening to the president's wife passionately expressing herself on how her husband runs Nigeria left me cringing. Reading between the…

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Monday, 17 October 2016 15:05

Buhari vs Buhari: Assessing Abati’s ‘voodoo’ thesis

Israel A. Ebije I have always respected Dr. Reuben Abati as one of the greatest in the field of mass communication in Nigeria. That is why his claim in his article titled “Rituals, Blood and Death – The Spiritual Side of Aso Rock” wont slide past me without a second thought especially now that the private and public affairs of President Muhammadu Buhari are under public scrutiny. The former presidential spokesman said my mind but in a slightly different way. I have always silently ruminated over the level of comedies of error that has culminated the way and manner governors,…

Friday, 10 June 2016 03:20

The national brain in recession

Reuben Abati “Have you eaten today? If not, let me show you this new restaurant. Good food, the service girls specially attractive, the Madam herself is quite friendly.” “What are you proposing: the food, the service girls or the Madam? Sorry to disappoint you, I am fasting.” “When did you become a Muslim?” “Is it only Muslims that fast? Fasting is good for everyone’s spirit and system.” “Forget about that. Come and have a good bite. I am the one paying anyway, so what’s your problem?” “This man, are you living in Mars? You mean you don’t know that this…

Thursday, 09 June 2016 02:30

The worst government in the history of Nigeria (2)

Femi Aribisala George Santayana says: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If Nigerians were not so forgetful, we would not now be saddled with the burdensome presidency of Muhammadu Buhari. In his first coming as military head-of-state in 1984, Buhari took Nigeria’s economy from bad to worse. Under him, our national debt rose from $14 billion to $18 billion in less than two years; with the result that Nigeria was no longer able to meet its financial obligations to global bankers. We had to queue for essential commodities, such as bread and milk, which were…

Wednesday, 08 June 2016 03:24

Buhari and the tragedy of politics

Abiodun Komolafe “He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick. I am a professed and an active Buharist and I am glad I made a wise choice! Impliedly, given the opportunity again, I will not hesitate to repeat my preference for Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s president. With that said, one cannot but be worried about the direction in which Nigeria is headed. That…

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