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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…

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…

Thursday, 02 August 2018 05:31

Gale of defections: what goes around, comes around - Jideofor Adibe

“What goes around comes around” is the summation of how the law of karma, (also known as the law of cause and effect) works. Those who subscribe to it believe that whatever we do or say, for good or evil (karmic credits or karmic debts), determines what will happen to us in future. While there is no exactitude on how or when karmic reactions will appear in our lives, subscribers to the doctrine believe that it is inevitable that we must harvest our karmic credits or pay our karmic debts. As the American inspirational speaker and lawyer Iyanla Vanzant, beautifully…

Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:50

The APC ship is sinking ... - Reuben Abati

When we wrote much earlier that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party was a coalition of strange bedfellows and a one-chance special purpose vehicle to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan by all and any means possible, we were accused of sour grapes. When we argued even much earlier that Nigeria’s Presidential seat of power was jinxed and that there was and there is a spiritual side to power and politics in Nigeria, we were asked to shut up. The new power brokers were so much at home with their taken authority they boasted that no demons could…

Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:45

Certificate issues: The Gbolarumi example - Kehinde Ayoola

Mr Hazeem Gbolarumi was rightly deemed to be late Mr Lamidi Adedibu's right hand man. He was so close to the late Garrison Commander of Ibadan politics such that baba breathed his last right in his arms. In this capacity, he acted as the hammerhead of most of Adedibu's political battles. He was a trusted loyalist of the Alaafin Molete. No wonder then that apart from Mr Adebayo Alao-Akala, the rambunctious, colourful, fun-loving Ogbomosho politician, Gbolarumi was the second biggest beneficiary of the 2006 attempted impeachment of Mr Rasheed Ladoja as Governor of Oyo State. Akala had to become governor…

Monday, 30 July 2018 03:55

Fake viral news about Buhari’s ICC secret ‘integrity’ dossier - Farooq A. Kperogi

There is a viral message making the rounds in Nigerian social media circles about an alleged secret document from International Criminal Court at the Hague, which shows that, “A top secret background check on global leaders, past and present,” found President Muhammadu Buhari to be “the only leader rated XXX1 on integrity, the highest rating globally.” Please don’t laugh. The message adds: “That's why he is the only world leader on the ICC floor to address them." The message emanated from Abdulmumin Jibrin, a member of House of Representatives from Kano, who, I understand, granted an interview to Channels TV.…

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Sunday, 29 July 2018 04:29

Oshiomhole’s tyranny of the tongue - Festus Adedayo

Often times, especially at moments of political turmoil like this, Nigerian politicians easily mouth old-time saying that nothing on the surface of the earth is new; that the new is often a reincarnation of the old. So when on Tuesday last week, police laid siege to the home of Senate President, Mr Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Mr Ike Ekweremadu as prelude to the bigger drama of 14 Senators and 34 members of House of Representatives decamping from ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that same day, two memorable events in Nigeria’s political calendar became a…

Thursday, 26 July 2018 04:48

In defence of Kemi Adeosun - Jideofor Adibe

Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has been in the eyes of the storm since the online newspaper Premium Times, broke the news of her alleged forgery of exemption certificate for the National Youth Corps Service Scheme (NYSC). The allegation was that Adeosun, born and bred in Britain, graduated in 1989 at the age of 22, and therefore ought to have undergone the mandatory NYSC scheme as stipulated by the relevant sections of the NYSC Act before picking up any job in Nigeria – whether in the public or the private sector. The paper claimed that Adeosun ‘procured’ the ‘Oluwole’…

Tuesday, 24 July 2018 05:11

Dasuki’s bail and the Attorney General - Reuben Abati

It is more than two weeks now since His Lordship Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, gave clear, positive and unambiguous orders in the matter between Col Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) as applicant and three persons - the Director General, State Security Services, the State Security Services and the Attorney General of the Federation as respondents. His Lordship affirmed that the continued detention of the respondent by the operatives of the second respondent, under the instruction of the first respondent since 29th December 2015, without granting him administrative bail, “is a violation of his fundamental right…

Monday, 23 July 2018 03:22

Nationalism, immigration, and economic success - Jason Furman

One of the central challenges facing the world’s advanced economies is slowing growth. Over the last decade, growth rates in the advanced economies have averaged 1.2%, down from an average of 3.1% during the previous 25 years. History shows that slower economic growth can make societies less generous, less tolerant, and less inclusive. So, it stands to reason that the past decade of sluggish growth has contributed to the surge of a damaging form of populist nationalism that is taking hold in a growing number of countries. As in the darker decades of the twentieth century, today’s nationalism takes the…

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