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Friday, 03 February 2017 18:01

Tuface, Buhari and the limits of activism - Ohimai Godwin Amaize

The planned protest against the Federal Government by popular Nigerian music artiste, Tuface Idibia couldn’t have been better timed, coming at a critical phase of our nation’s history when the dominant words on the street are hunger and anger amid palpable discontent over the hopeless incompetence of the Buhari administration since it assumed office on May 29, 2015. I’m a huge fan of Tuface Idibia. He is one of several top music artistes in Nigeria who have earned my respect. I’ve also been a leading advocate for the use of pop culture for social re-engineering. However, real advocacy for good…

Friday, 03 February 2017 02:50

Lest Buhari becomes a ‘Captive King’ - Segun Adeniyi

Following the 2015 general election, I decided to write a book, not only to find out why and how President Goodluck Jonathan lost but also to interrogate the recruitment process that keeps producing lacklustre leaders who are neither prepared nor have clear vision of what they would do in office. In setting a deadline of November 2016 for the publication, I thought I had enough time on my hands. However, a discussion with Dr. Chidi Amuta, who has in recent years become a professional mentor, changed my thinking when he suggested that for the book to be authoritative, I must…

Tuesday, 31 January 2017 17:03

Travails of Apostle Johnson Suleiman and the inciting words of the Sultan of Sokoto (2) - Femi Fani-Kayode

President Donald J. Trump summed it up rather well when he said, in reference to the Islamist terrorists and those that derive joy from committing genocide against Christians, that "they are sneaky dirty rats. They blow up people in a shopping centres and they blow up people in a church”. He went on to say “we are fighting sneaky rats right now that are sick and demented. And we are going to win.” Finally he said, “the execution of Christians is no longer acceptable”. How right President Trump is. I thank God for his life every day. With him as…

Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:05

Donald Trump and the muslim world - Reuben Abati

I am not a fan of Donald Trump, the incumbent President of the United States. I didn’t stand with him. I stood with her- Hillary Clinton- in the last US Presidential election. No other election in recent American history has been more international in terms of interest and emotional involvement. Trump’s election even divided the Nigerian middle class. Majority of Christians in Nigeria stood with Donald Trump. They liked his anti-Muslim rhetoric, and in a country where religion is such a volatile subject and the Christian community feels as if it is under siege from radical Islamic extremism, it was…

Monday, 30 January 2017 17:32

Travails of Apostle Johnson Suleman and the inciting words of the Sultan of Sokoto (part 1) - Femi Fani-Kayode

Nothing sums up the dangerous way in which the DSS is handling the Apostle Johnson Suleman affair better than the words of the Southern Kaduna-based Pastor Owojaye Matthew. He said, "you want to arrest Christian clergymen who asked Christians to defend themselves against killer FULANI Herdsmen while you allow hundreds of foreign FULANI herdsmen invading Nigeria to kill and maim CHRISTIANS and take over their lands! DSS, tread softly! Do not play into the hands of chaos! We are waiting for DSS to arrest the kill and go FULANI herdsmen!” The Buhari administration is literally playing Russian roullete with this…

Monday, 30 January 2017 02:26

Why Donald Trump won the Presidential election in 2016 - Ozodi Thomas Osuji

If you look at the two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, regardless of your political orientation you are forced to conclude that Hillary is smarter and is the more polished of the two. She appears well schooled in the ways of the political world; she says all the right things. Donald appears like an uneducated bum from the boondocks, a Hilly Billy from the Appalachian backwoods of Kentucky; Trump seems so dumb that you wonder what he is doing wanting to be the president of the world’s greatest economic and political power. However, what this facile assessment of Trump…

Sunday, 29 January 2017 16:49

Those wishing Buhari dead - Tola Adeniyi

I had thought it was a dirty dubious grave humour when I heard that some mischievous people had manufactured stories that our own Muhammadu Aleko [Taiwo] Buhari was dead and about to be ferried back home in the luggage cabin until I read a rebuttal from the Presidency. So there was indeed such a rumour, that some people actually wished Buhari dead! What offence had Buhari committed? What on earth could have produced a death wish on Buhari? Was it as a result of his person? Was it because he had coined the phrase of the ‘other room’? Could it…

Saturday, 28 January 2017 16:53

Who wants Buhari dead? - Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, please allow me to say wherever two or more Nigerians are gathered these days the topic of discussion must, naturally, dovetail to our dear President’s state of health and the consequential suggestion that our country is ailing as a result. This controversy didn’t start today. I remember how Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose, the enfant terrible of Ekiti State, raised a horrific alarm, just before the 2015 election that eventually catapulted Major General Buhari back to power. He had screamed to the whole world, indeed to high heavens, that the then APC Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, had suffered…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:12

As the Buhari mystique fades away - Pa Ikhide

Nigeria is on my mind. We are living in interesting times. Many years from now, historians will agree that one of the best things to ever happen to Nigeria was the election of Muhammadu Buhari as president. It is hard to find a more corrupt and hypocritical government than Buhari's in the history of Nigeria; indeed there is a collective national embarrassment at the thought that a malignant blight rules Nigeria. This is not what Nigerians hoped for and asked for. They got duped by the APC and her PhD vuvuzelas. They in turn got duped by Buhari and now…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:42

Still guarding the concrete slab - Olusegun Adeniyi

Even when I am not so much into the social media, I have come to like WhatsApp because of the inspirational stories many users pass around on the platform from which I learn several lessons. Unfortunately, in recent weeks, I have also noticed that some Nigerians have been using the platform to spread alarming messages that are full of hate and incitement to violence, even when they still ask you to “pray”, apparently to the God they have created in their own image. But that is an issue for another day. The story for today is that of a concrete…

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Wednesday, 25 January 2017 11:38

As Buhari becomes a 'clearing agent' - Farooq Kperogi

We have an "anti-corruption" president who blatantly lied just to defend the corruption of his close aides. In his letter to the Senate "clearing" Babachir David Lawal of multi-million naira "grass clearing" corruption, the president said the senate didn't invite Lawal to defend himself. Lie. He WAS invited via a letter, which his secretary acknowledged, and via three newspaper adverts. But he spurned the invitation. The president said only three senate committee members signed the letter asking for Lawal's resignation and prosecution. Another lie. Seven senate committee members did. A man who knowingly and intentionally lies has no integrity. Worse,…

Wednesday, 25 January 2017 02:09

The righteous Nigerian and the rationality of corruption - Pius Adesanmi

Can Nigeria overcome corruption? Will Nigeria survive corruption? The optimistic, overconfident Nigerian who offered me a “no shaking yes” to both questions was only able to do so because he successfully outed me as I tried to remain incognito and maintain a low profile at the hotel pool in Lagos. Retreating incognito to a hotel in Lagos to assess our warfront strategies in matters Nigeriana is something I often do with Omoyele Sowore. This time in the summer of 2016, I was alone in a secluded corner of the poolside, trying not to look like me. I didn’t want the…

Tuesday, 24 January 2017 15:36

Big Brother Naija show in South Africa: A gratuitous insult on Nigeria - Adegbenro Adebanjo

Tell me it is not true. No it must be a ‘January fool’ Joke. Please TELL me that the news making the round that the Big Brother Naija 2017 House being broadcast live to viewers across the world is located and being hosted and filmed in South Africa. If it is true then this is a great insult to Nigeria and those behind this disloyalty must halt it forthwith. How can a television show involving Nigerians, about Nigeria with Nigerian culture and motifs be shot in South Africa. It does not just make any sense. South Africa hosting Nigerian Big…

Tuesday, 24 January 2017 02:57

Once upon a time in Gambia - Reuben Abati

I have very vivid memories of my last visit to The Gambia. This was in 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan paid a two-day visit to the country. In the course of that visit, President Jonathan commissioned the new Chancery of the Nigerian Embassy in Banjul, and also met with the Nigerian community, in addition to the usual bilateral meetings. Nigeria and The Gambia have very strong cultural and diplomatic relations. We were quartered at a very nice, hospitable sea-side hotel, the Coco Ocean Resort. One of the first things I noticed was the large population of female tourists, lounging by…

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