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Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:53

Fidel Castro: Tribute to a revolutionary - Rauf Aregbesola

“Died in beauty, like a rose blown from its parent stem” – Charles Doyne Sillery At last the curtain fell on the exemplary life of the Commandante of The Army of the oppressed and dis-inherited people world-wide. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz has passed on after 90 eventful years, 49 of which he spent as the Prime Minister and later President of Cuba. Indeed, Castro had become a permanent feature of political and ideological discourse for more than five decades, such that we almost thought he would live forever. At his passing, the feeling is mixed. Yes mixed! To lose such…

Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:44

You're not the National Chairman of our Party, PDP tells Sheriff

PRESS RELEASE Our attention has been drawn to another set of garbage and tissues of lies put together by the discredited loyalists of Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff in the name of a press statement on Monday, November 28, 2016, wherein, the group tried to sustain its illegal claim to the leadership of our Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). 2. The National Caretaker Committee which has been confirmed severally by the Court as the authentic body saddled with the task of providing leadership for the Party pending the hosting of an elective Convention, would have ignored the ranting of these men…

Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:41

Finding crude oil in the North is Buhari’s understanding of economic diversification - Pius Adesanmi

In my entire adult life, every government in Nigeria has mouthed the platitude of economic diversification. Whether military or civilian, every administration has gone to the Aso Rock Villa screaming her determination to wean Nigeria of oil dependency from the rooftops. Such administrations wax nostalgic about the groundnut pyramids of Kano, the rubber and palm oil days of the Edo/Delta axis, the cocoa plantations and other cash crops of the southwest. You hear of the abundance of solid minerals that we need to tap into all over the country. And patati. And patata. To the best of my knowledge, no…

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 03:31

A leader must always remain relevant - Bamidele Ademola-Olateju

Olagunsoye Oyinlola was governor of Osun State. I met this respected politician at the airport. He was ahead of me on the queue. I was directly behind him and his company - a young, polite gentleman. I noticed many people stopped by and prostrate "gbalaja" for him. I had no idea who he was. Suddenly, one unruly guy came and stood in front of him. I was aghast! We exchanged glances, then he spoke; "What a rude young man." I smiled knowingly and something cautioned me not to accost the man. Soon, one of Air France staff approached us and…

Sunday, 27 November 2016 15:21

Goodbye, Fidel Castro - Reuben Abati

The death of Fidel Castro was long expected and when it finally came on Friday night, there was very little surprise across the world. He was 90, and in August, he had himself predicted that he would not live beyond 90. He had been sick for about ten years, compelling him to hand over power as Cuba’s leader in 2006. It is instructive that Castro’s death, like his life, was attended by divided opinions. No other man has been more controversial in Latin America and indeed in the whole of the Americas in the last 50 years. He was hated…

Saturday, 26 November 2016 16:04

Buhari, Jonathan and the loyalty test - Reno Omokri

I read Buba Galadima's warnings to President Muhammadu Buhari in which, in pretty much the same way as the President's wife, Aisha Buhari, he warned the incumbent to mend his ways quickly because the masses of Nigeria had abandoned him. I was not very surprised at the strong rebuke that came from the Presidency especially as Mr. Galadima raised the specter of 2019. In a harsh overkill that said more than it intended to say, the Presidency descended on Buba Galadima and, in a Freudian slip, confirmed the President's desire for a second term when the statement said "suggestions that…

Friday, 25 November 2016 16:30

The threat of a new political party - Reuben Abati

When aggrieved politicians within the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) decided to join forces with members of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the All Progressives Peoples Alliance (APGA) to form the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013, they had well-defined, if not so clearly stated, even if poorly conceived objectives: to send President Goodluck Jonathan out of power, displace the PDP which had clearly become a dominating hegemonic party, exert vengeance and offer the people an alternative. The triumph of the APC in the 2015 elections resulting…

Thursday, 24 November 2016 16:43

Dasuki, Tompolo, just join APC - Paul Onomuakpokpo

Shortly after Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s jolting victory in the 2015 presidential election, some politicians obviously realised their mistake of not disavowing the then President Goodluck Jonathan and his ill-starred party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). But all hope was not really lost – they attempted to salvage their wrecked political fortunes. Some immediately denigrated their political parties and declared their allegiance to the winning party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Others were subtle. They did not want to be seen as brazen opportunists who were ready to sound the death knell of the party on whose platform they had attained…

Wednesday, 23 November 2016 01:50

Fool Nigeria once, shame on you. Fool Nigeria twice … - Ameto Akpe

It's been a tough year for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. The mood in Africa's most populous nation is a far cry from the euphoria that greeted his historic 2015 election - the first time in Nigeria's history that an opposition candidate unseated an incumbent president in a democratic election. For weeks and even months after the vote, Buhari was a media darling, praised at home and extoled abroad. Since then, the cheers have turned to jeers - even from members of the president's own party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Meanwhile, his administration cowers under attacks from a disillusioned electorate,…

Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:56

Work without pay - Tola Adeniyi

This piece you are about to read is likely to offend my friends in government and in several establishments across the country. Governors in 33 out of the 36 states in the Nigerian territory who have not been able to pay their workers as promptly and regularly as when due, administrators of universities and several tertiary institutions who are owing their workers, chief executives of banking and financial institutions who are owing arrears of salaries and even authorities of police institution, and agencies charged with paying our illustrious pensioners are all going to go up in arms raising curses on…

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Tuesday, 22 November 2016 02:30

Macro-wars pave path for Trump as axioms of world economy crack - Craig Torres and Jeff Black

Donald Trump has an invitation from economists to try something new. Even before the election, Democrats such as Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman helped put fiscal policy back in vogue. Central bank regimes are under review, and there’s a sharper focus on economic losers after decades of liberalization worsened income inequality. Furman, current chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said the old view of fiscal policy as an ineffective tool is “shifting.” The reevaluation isn’t only happening in the U.S.: Koichi Hamada, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said he has changed his view on…

Sunday, 20 November 2016 14:17

Jonathan: An exceptional statesman at 59 - Ikechukwu Eze

Not many Nigerians would easily reconcile themselves to the fact that former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan will be turning 59, on November 20. Obviously, going by his vast leadership experience and record of landmark achievements, he appears to have flown so high, in so short a time, way ahead of his years. It is to the glory of God that, while some politicians at that age may still be struggling to get into their first public office, Jonathan has exceptionally checked the boxes for Deputy Governor, Acting Governor, Governor, Vice President, Acting President and President; the only African, dead or…

Saturday, 19 November 2016 01:52

GEJ and the 'rented' Sokoto crowd - Onyebuchi Ememanka

I slept early last night, no thanks to the stress of Lagos. I usually wake up quite early to catch up with latest happenings in the country before heading into another round of traffic stress. Early this morning as I scanned through facebook, I saw viral pictures of the visit of former President Goodluck Jonathan to Sokoto. He came to the caliphate to sympathize with the Dasuki family over the death of the Late Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki who was the father of his National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki who is currently in detention. There was a huge crowd that received…

Thursday, 17 November 2016 02:11

Head bloodied but not bowed - Femi Fani-kayode

Permit me to begin this contribution with an apology for my disappearance from the literary and political scene for the last one month but this was due to circumstances beyond my control. On October 21st, five days after my 56th birthday, I was arrested by the EFCC without an arrest warrant at the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos where I had been earlier granted bail. Thereafter I was illegally detained by them without any detention order for 21 days. Kindly note that this was after I had been detained by them for a gruelling 67 days 6…

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