On March 19, 2021, President Biden stumbled three times as he tried to climb Air Force One to board a flight to Atlanta.
Author: Reuben Abati
Astrologists describe them as persons who are compassionate, creative, inquisitive, changeable, sensitive and protective.
Nigeria held its own general elections in 2023, producing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner.
With a catchy title he gets you into the story, and he leads you on. He knows the game. So, catch the reader’s attention, a precious commodity in journalism and then peel the story, layer by layer in an onion-peeling fashion.
This is precisely the diversionary tactic that has been adopted by the Tinubu administration by making the reversion to Nigeria’s old National Anthem the big issue of the day as the administration marked its one year in office.
He was the Don Cornelius, without the controversy, of the night club scene and entertainment arena in Lagos in the 80s and 90s.
The tragic death of the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi (63), his foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian (60) and seven others in a helicopter crash on Sunday evokes these thoughts afresh, as well as frightening memories.
And so it is with Onakoya, who played chess from April 17, 2024 till April 21 (2.40am), to beat the world record of 56 hours, nine minutes and 37 seconds set in 2018 by two Norwegians: Hallvard Flatebo and Sjur Ferkingstad.
I was there as part of the Arise News Team of correspondents covering the conference – my fourth or fifth time in Davos, having been there yearly during my tour of duty as Presidential Spokesperson for Nigeria.
The thinking is that the best way to address terror is to counter it with terror in similar or equal proportion.
By September 2023, the world had exceeded the projected limit, far above pre-industrial levels.
One Minister has even turned himself into a quasi-military administrator of the Federal Capital Territory!
The result was that the election petition tribunals removed some Governors and ordered re-elections.
The phrase has caught on since then, not just in the United States but across the world and applied instructively to anything that is considered of high priority.
I admire him for his intellect and forthrightness, but even more so for his stubborn loyalty to persons and causes.
Yesterday, 45 Ministers took the oath of office as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria pursuant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu exercising executive powers as granted under Section 5 of the 1999 Constitution, and in line with Section 147(3). These Ministers of the “Restored Hope Agenda”, we are told, have a mandate to deliver Tinubu’s eight-point agenda as stated in his election manifesto to wit: national security, economy, agriculture, power, oil and gas, transportation, education, and healthcare, with special emphasis on economy and security.
While some of them may be associated with the state either directly or by proxy, a common link is the fact that they have shown a consistent pattern to identify with the downtrodden, the underprivileged, the poor and the down and out in society.
However, Tinubu having emerged, he mobilised the party under his watch to deliver victory for the party. He asked to be praised, not vilified
In Yakubu’s time, Nigeria came up with the Electoral Act 2022, which indeed is a different kind of law, an advancement from the Electoral Act 2010.
The place to begin is the verbal gem that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, then an aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu dropped in Abeokuta on June 2, 2022 when he used certain words which may well end up as part of Nigeria’s political lexicon viz: “Emilokan.