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Tuesday, 13 December 2016 07:11

Buhari: Why Tinubu is better as an ally than opponent - Azuka Onwuka

There must be something Asiwaju Bola Tinubu knows or does that is beyond other politicians; for he is the only politician since 1999 that sponsors people into political offices and they remain faithful and loyal to him. In the three zones of the North as well as in the South-East and South-South, sometimes the relationship between a political godfather and a godson does not even last until the inauguration before turning sour. But in Tinubu’s case, no matter the attacks the public may heap on him about his political and financial stranglehold on his godsons’ tenures, they still remain loyal…

Monday, 12 December 2016 02:37

Echos of communism: The end of globalization? - Victor Oladokun

"Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More." (- Alexi Yurchak, Author, 2006) "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold." (- W.B. Yeats, Poet, 1919) Exactly 25 years ago, in December 1991, I was a young TV producer/reporter/news anchor of a global newscast, CBN World News. At the time, something was afoot in the firmament of global politics. History was being made. What had once seemed permanent, was crumbling before our eyes. The great Soviet Union, the world's second largest superpower, was disintegrating from within at hyper speed. Four months earlier, Mikhail Gorbachev, the reformist President of the USSR had…

Sunday, 11 December 2016 01:35

The Buhari I sold to you isn't the one in charge - Seun Onigbinde

I try to always introspect before I put pieces here on Facebook recently. Why? Because I am a humbled man. Humbled because the Buhari I sold to you is not the one in charge. I can understand how I was so zealous about Buhari. When I saw him in 2011, I nearly broke down when it was obvious he won’t win. Because my understanding of history is that if his short-lived government survived, we won’t have ended up in IBB where everything finally went downhill. In 2015, I gave it my all despite a fierce need to be impartial due…

Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:14

Mimiko in the eye of history - Tola Adeniyi

I was at Oke Agbe, Akoko North West in Ondo state home to business mogul Otunba Solomon Oladunni and the late Chief Rufus Giwa where I was Guest Speaker and Special guest of honour at the commissioning of one of the 50 Mega schools built by the Mimiko administration. Each of the schools with capacity for 550 pupils provides conducive learning environment with contemporary facilities for the learners. The facilities include among others: computer laboratories, modern library, sick bay, and recreational facilities with magnetic boards. Primary school children clad in uniforms freely provided by government were seen working dexterously with…

Friday, 09 December 2016 16:12

Who is a ‘Patriotic Nigerian’? - Jideofor Adibe

In garden talks and beer parlour political conversations, one often constantly hears one side charging the other: “Please let’s put sentiments aside and be patriotic here”. Such admonitions are fairly common when Nigerians of different political, ethnic and religious persuasions engage in political conversations. Over time, I have come to believe that the concept of ‘patriotism’ is not neutral in such conversations but often a veneer used by the contending groups to gain mileage during arguments. In this reflection therefore, I will interrogate the notion of ‘patriotic Nigerian’, and how the identity of the ‘patriotic Nigerian’ interfaces with other identities…

Friday, 09 December 2016 03:04

Is Sanusi also among the Wailers? - Olusegun Adeniyi

Even though the naira was still very strong at the exchange rate of 60 kobo to a dollar (yes, in this same Nigeria!) and graduates could afford to be choosy when it came to employment and career prospects, there were tell tale signs by mid 1981 that the economy had begun to wobble. But President Shehu Shagari and his Second Republic civilian administration chose to live in denial. However, on his way out of the country for vacation on 4th July that year, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo released to the media copies of a letter he had sent to…

Thursday, 08 December 2016 15:50

Buhari, El-Rufai: From democracy to guncracy? - Paul Onomuakpokpo

No one can easily impugn the sense in making democracy to be responsive to the special needs of the milieu in which it is practised. But such domestication retains its validity to the extent that the objective is to serve the people. We need not split hairs in so far as the reformulation of the concept of democracy is not a precursor to an accommodation of the crude cravings of some benighted leaders. What must, however, trigger vigilance is an attempt to tinker with an essential principle of the democracy – periodic elections. For here in Africa, we are not…

Wednesday, 07 December 2016 03:52

Back to the colonial economy - Moses Ochonu

They tried to "defend the Naira." It didn't work. It took them an entire year and a recession to realize that nobody does that in the twenty first century. They reluctantly let the Naira float, but they didn't let it go fully. Their authoritarian, command and control instinct would not let them do that. They still have caps and pegs that have morphed into multiple rates, opening the door to corruption in the form of round tripping. Then they decided that the problem was the money changers. They unleashed the DSS on BDCs in multiple cities. When the raids began,…

Tuesday, 06 December 2016 02:02

Why NCC's failed data price hike is very wrong - 'Sina Kawonise

The now suspended Nigerian Communications Commission's (NCC) directive to telecommunications companies (Telcos) to have a floor price for their services was premised on the goal of protecting competition in the sector. The directive purported to protect small Telcos such as Smile, Spectranet and Natcom by fixing a floor price that would guarantee that they recover their cost and make profit at their small scale of operation. The current price of data per megabyte among the big four is as follows: Glo - 21 kobo MTN - 45 kobo Airtel - 52 kobo Etisalat- 94 kobo Average price = 53 kobo…

Monday, 05 December 2016 15:15

774 local govts: Nigeria's biggest fraud - Tola Adeniyi

p> A litany of frauds came up in the wake of Lugardo-Fulani colonialism of Nigeria in 1914. And progressively from then came several other frauds which were perpetrated in furtherance of the grand design of complete domination and degradation of the 400+ nationalities that hitherto existed in freedom and political wellness before the roguish Amalgamation. Let me declare from the outset that the peoples of the Fulani Colony erroneously called Nigeria shall no longer keep quiet in the face of political strangulation. Peoples of this God-given territory which had existed before the great great grandfather of Lugard was born; existed…

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Saturday, 03 December 2016 16:06

Tinubu and the ‘rational calculus of war' - Jideofor Adibe

Several of the ideas that flow from On War, the unfinished masterpiece of the 19th century Prussian general, Carl von Clausewitz, remain relevant today and could be applied in the analysis of any return on investment model (ROI). One of these notions is the ‘Rational Calculus of War’ in which Clausewitz argued that there should be a correlation between the value a state attaches to its goals and the means it uses to achieve them. Clausewitz argued that since war is not a senseless passion but a rational activity driven by clear objectives, the value a state attaches to these…

Saturday, 03 December 2016 02:31

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu represents a movement - Joe Igbokwe

I was privileged to attend the grand finale of Gov. Rauf Aregbesola’s second term bid campaigns in 2014 in Oshogbo stadium where I saw a crowd that frightened me. I have been attending campaign rallies since 1999 but what I saw in Oshogbo was unprecedented in the history of Nigeria. I was sitting close to a friend and when I sought his opinion on what we are witnessing he told me that this is no longer rally but a movement. After the Ondo Guber elections last Saturday November 26, 2016 many commentators began to celebrate the so-called Buhari boys in…

Friday, 02 December 2016 16:28

Governors and the politics of succession - Reuben Abati

The recent Governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states threw up a number of issues about the politics of succession in Nigeria. In Edo state, you would think it was the then incumbent Governor Adams Oshiomhole seeking re-election. He campaigned more than the candidate. He danced, waved the broom, his party’s symbol, far more enthusiastically than the man who wanted the office. He even did more to put down the opposition and any likely threat to Godwin Obaseki’s ambition. His pretty wife was always in tow during the campaigns, and did she dance? Oh yes, she did too. Godwin Obaseki’s…

Thursday, 01 December 2016 17:15

Pot of soup democracy - Olusegun Adeniyi

Ondo State gubernatorial election has come and gone and by most objective accounts, the votes were properly cast, they were counted and they count–at least to the extent that majority carried the day. So for that reason, we must commend the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for finally getting it right; the outgoing Governor Olusegun Mimiko for his maturity in congratulating the winner and all the contenders for displaying sportsmanship. Of course, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has promised to go to court, which it has a right to do, but if the party leaders are honest with themselves, they…

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