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Saturday, 07 May 2022 06:32

Party primaries: If democracy is the goal, then the Chinese might be closer - Osmund Agbo

Two years prior to the 1976 US election, a Gallup poll listing 31 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination did not include a little-known governor of Georgia named Jimmy Carter. Even a year later and after he emerged from a crowded race to win his party’s primary and later the general election with a narrow margin, Carter’s support among Democrats was abysmally low. But Jimmy Carter was even a better presidential candidate than he was a president and Ronald Reagan defeated him in a landslide, winning 489 out of 538 electoral votes and ending his one-term colorless presidency on January…

Friday, 06 May 2022 06:28

Tinubu may not be running - Fredrick Nwabufo

It is a kaleidoscope – the pattern keeps mutating. Nigeria’s politics should be among the most unpredictable, intriguing and exhilarating. There are more smokescreens than actual smoke; more pawns than real players; more masquerades than true pipers and more jokers than aces. But Bola Tinubu, former Lagos governor and APC presidential hopeful, is no joker. As he said during his declaration, it has been his ‘’lifelong ambition’’ to become president. A younger and healthier Tinubu will make a good president. As I wrote in a previous column, Tinubu as Lagos governor showed his mettle. He worked out a roadmap for…

Friday, 06 May 2022 06:27

Ayo Adebanjo’s musings on power shift - Azu Ishiekwene

The statement by the leader of the Yoruba Cultural Group, Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo, that the Southeast should get the next turn at the presidency has ruffled quite some feathers. This comes at a time when nearly half a dozen of his kinsmen have shown interest and almost nothing seems certain anymore because the two major political parties, having just discovered the virtue in merit, are now disposed to an open race. The only thing that is certain is where the presidency may not go: the Southeast. When you hear top politicians talking about power shift, and insisting that the president…

Friday, 06 May 2022 06:25

Mixed blessings of ‘exporting’ troubled marriages - Michael West

The incidents of failed marriages abroad is raising so much concern back home in Africa especially in Ghana and Nigeria. Most of the affected marriages were taken abroad in quests for better opportunities but which could not survive due to Western culture of equality and gender rights laws. In this write-up, Alice Olusola, a writer and family affair counsellor, highlights the risks involved in exporting troubled marriages. Please read on: The fad nowadays is for families to relocate abroad: the husband, wife and children. It is disheartening, however, to note that after the euphoria of seeking greener pastures wanes, most…

Thursday, 05 May 2022 06:33

Weapons alone will not resolve the Ukraine conflict - Javier Solana

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to change the course of history. But his plan – a war against Ukraine aimed at partly redressing the Soviet Union’s dissolution, which he called “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century” – is doomed to fail. Even if Russia manages to revive its failing military campaign, whatever gains it makes will amount to a Pyrrhic victory that will do little to support Putin’s claims of Russian greatness. Russian troops are prevailing in Mariupol, but winning a battle does not mean winning the war. Putin, given his interest in Russian history, should know that…

Thursday, 05 May 2022 06:32

2023: Stop the howling and growling and get real - Femi Fani-Kayode

In a statement titled 'Our Party, APC Must Tread The Path of Equity', Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state, said, inter alia, the following: "It is the turn of the Southern part of the country to produce the next President. The party leadership should have no difficulty in making a pronouncement on this very important issue just as it has fixed various fees for the purchase of forms. This must be done without delay. The principle of Federal Character is enshrined in the 1999 Constitution as amended. It would be disingenuous for anyone to argue against rotation at this period.…

Thursday, 05 May 2022 06:31

African men are not ‘naturally’ polygamous - Abimbola Adelakun

The news that actor Yul Edochie took a second wife rebooted discussions about polygamy. Typical of our clime, issues bordering on long complex history too quickly descended into superficial exchanges and self-serving arguments. It gets worse when the interventions are headlined by a self-labelled “deep thinker” whose grasp of any issue hardly goes beyond his gut instincts. A successful debate about polygamy in contemporary culture must do away with the perfidious assumptions of the exceptionalism of the African male’s sexual needs and the faulty conclusion that polygamy solves the problem of adultery by satiating male desires. African men are not…

Wednesday, 04 May 2022 06:19

Tinubu’s desperation and Omatseye’s dirty fight - Etim Etim

Bola Tinubu is steadily carrying out his threat to “fight dirty” and his targets have been well marked out; President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He has deployed most of the writers in his newspaper, The Nation, as his fighters. Day after day, they rain abuses and insults on Yemi Osinbajo and the president. Their grouse is that the VP has dared to run for president and Buhari is tacitly supporting him and at the same time unsympathetic towards Tinubu. There is no way the VP would have had the audacity to challenge Tinubu if he didn’t have…

Wednesday, 04 May 2022 06:17

The bitter truth about Nigerians - Femi Fani-Kayode

Permit me to begin this contribution by saying that I am proud of being a Nigerian and that I would have it no other way. Yet we must look in the mirror once in a while and share some bitter truths about who and what we are. This is not a self-deprecating piece but a journey of self-discovery and an in-depth analysis of the Nigerian psyche. If you do not want to hear the bitter truth and you do not have the stomach for it please stop right here and do not read the rest of this write-up. To those…

Wednesday, 04 May 2022 06:15

Does God hate polygamy? (1) - Bola Bolawole

Abram (later Abraham), the father of faith and the progenitor of Judaism, Islam and Christianity married more than one wife. He married the wife of his youth, Sarai (later Sarah) and when Sarah offered him her maidservant, Hagar, he took her and bore a child, Ishmael, through her. While some authorities said Abraham married Keturah after Sarah’s death, others said Hagar and Keturah were one and the same person and that Isaac went to bring her back to Abraham after his mother, Sarah’s death. Abraham had 8 sons – the oldest was Ishmael (with Hagar), followed by the child of…

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Monday, 02 May 2022 06:44

Nomination forms and looters ticket to national treasury - Tola Adeniyi

I really no longer consider it worthwhile for me to waste my time writing, talking or thinking about Nigeria. It is not helpful to my sanity to dwell in or on a building about to collapse, even though I am worried stiff about the calamity knocking at the door. Nigeria is irredeemably in ruins; it is only those who are benefitting from the cracks and crumbs that are still living in self-denial. Regrettably there are millions entrapped in the contraption who simply don't know what to do or where to go or who to turn to. And my heart is…

Monday, 02 May 2022 06:41

Now, nowhere is safe – Readers’ reactions

As we do from time to time, today we are leaving the stage for our readers because their voices matter. Now, nowhere is safe (1) (04/04/2022) Awolowo in the 70s said that the children you failed to train will never let you have peace, True or False? Emmanuel Joshua Oluwabankole ----------- We Nigerians are physically and spiritually defeated by our beliefs about our government's ability to protect us, and sincerely speaking, the youths nowadays care less about the government's matter, the country is getting worse and is about to collapse. Just take a look at those strikes that keep students…

Sunday, 01 May 2022 06:29

Mike Adenuga: Celebrating ‘The Bull’ at 69 - Toni Kan

The year was 1990 and Nigeria had a military president, and a medical doctor turned oil man was in charge of the nation’s oil ministry. With zero oil industry experience, the brilliant doctor set himself three quick tasks; midwife indigenous participation in the oil and gas industry, increase reserves, as well as deep water production. To achieve the first, he supervised a discretionary oil licence bid round. At the end, 11 Nigerian businessmen who had achieved success in other areas were issued licences. One of them was named Mike Adenuga. He was 37 years old and had become a millionaire…

Sunday, 01 May 2022 06:28

Buhari’s N100m sewage dinner with Museveni - Festus Adedayo

There was tension inside the main bowl of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos this day, December 11, 2014. President Goodluck Jonathan, having been rendered one of the most worthless clothes a people could wear on their festive day by the demolition propaganda machine of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) it was obvious that whoever scored a bullseye inside the Balogun Stadium was the next president of Nigeria. On parade were Buhari himself, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; ex-Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso; ex-Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and Sam Nda-Isaiah, publisher of Leadership newspapers. All the candidates attempted to wield…

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