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Benedict Ayade, former Senator and suave-talking Governor of Cross River State, is one of the few politicians of colour and aesthetics in Nigeria today. The 53-year-old University of Ibadan-trained microbiologist, and former Delta State University lecturer, who hails from Kakum in Obudu Local Government, Cross River State, first contested on the platform of the PDP as…
The bill to provide a timeframe for a President-elect to appoint Ministers scaled second reading in the House of Representatives recently. The bill seeks to, among other things, ensure that a President forms his cabinet within 30 days of his or her swearing-in. According to Kpam Sokpo, a lawmaker from Benue who sponsored the bill,…
Whenever Olujimi Kolawole Agbaje (popularly known as Jimi Agbaje or JK) emerges from his cocoon one or two years to the next elections, observers understand that he is up for a game he has played so well in the last 20 years. Anyone with gubernatorial aspirations in a major opposition party in Lagos has a…
Nigeria is going through difficult times. From the harsh economic realities of inflation to the country’s security challenges, the problems are quite inundating. The recent demise of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, and his entourage who were poised to halt some of these challenges, especially in the area of security, has equally added…
Ahmed Isah, a popular TV host also known as ordinary President, has come under public scrutiny following his physical attack on a lady in a video circulated by BBC. The BBC Africa Eye documentary showed Isah assaulting the woman who was accused of setting her brother’s six-year-old child on fire for alleged witchcraft. The woman…
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda was recently sworn in for his sixth term in office after a very controversial election. Nigeria’s Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was in attendance as the representative of the country’s government. What actually generated so much interest was the fact that the 76-year-old Museveni has been in power since 1986. This…
The kind of relationship that existed between the Federal Government under Muhammadu Buhari and Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka in the last six years could best be described as a sizzling romance between the cassock and the soapbox. Interestingly, the romance went sour a few months ago. Recently, Garba Shehu, the spokesman of the president, issued…
There are strong speculations that the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is planning to pick its presidential candidate for 2023 elections from northern Nigeria. This thought must have shaped the early plans made by the current governor of Sokoto State, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, when he started underground preparations for his presidential ambitions…
What is security in Nigeria under democratic governance in the last twenty years? What is Nigeria’s security problem? Has there ever been and is there anything called Nigeria’s security problem? Has there been a security philosophy ever in the country? Has there ever been a conscious attempt to teach Nigerians this security philosophy assuming one…
The apex court made a pronouncement this May, dismissing an appeal filed by one of the 74 political parties deregistered by INEC in February 2020. The National Unity Party (NUP) had filed a case to challenge the earlier 29 July 2020 verdict of the Court of Appeal upholding its deregistration by the electoral body. A…
