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More tragic was Abati’s inglorious, uncalled for, cut and join attempt to portray the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, as the shady villain that has plunged Nigeria into his imaginary intractable apocalyptic debt mess with China.

Last week, the administration yet again unleashed its security forces in riot gear on #RevolutionNow protesters who were simply calling on the government to respect human rights, obey the rule of law, and address heightened insecurity, poverty, corruption, and poor infrastructure in the country. The peaceful protests took place in several parts of Nigeria, including Abuja, Lagos and Osogbo.

But my first close contact with Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua was as an adversary in 2013. In fact, it is one of the “greatest comebacks in history” that we eventually became quite close, and we began to exchange confidences. I also visited him at home many times.

And why did Obasanjo spell out the full names (or pseudonyms) of the bulky “businessman” turned politician? I am certain that till his death, not many Nigerians indeed knew which name indeed was authentic in relation to this personality.

#RevolutionNow, a civil society group, had last week embarked on civil protest over the loans and have vowed to continue to protest until the Federal Government stop taking loans.

What Obasanjo said about Kashamu was true, but it’s unlikely that he would have said it if Kashamu had remained in his corner servicing his ego and taking his order, a la carte. He doesn’t need to remind the public that we can say what we like about him when he passes

Thanks to the then United States President Harry Truman, who immediately stopped the bombings after seeing the devastation of the first two, otherwise Japan would have been totally wiped out. And also the wise Japanese emperor who hurriedly, unconditionally surrendered.

From first inspection, I questioned a number of things, including what the NBC’s intentions were, what their goals were and how the clauses amended would affect their stakeholders. In the broadcasting space, it is known that the exclusivity factor is what sets broadcasters apart from each other, but that distinction is about to be reversed in Nigeria and I could relate with the aggrieved parties and almost joined in the online war myself.

Since his appointment as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, a lawyer, senator and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, has come under the most virulent attacks and orchestrated media lynching. The same man who was the toast of the Nigerian media and even political associates and opponents on account of his uncommon leadership that wrought uncommon transformation in his state has suddenly become the subject of media hounding.

During the Coronavirus lockdown the government was providing food vouchers to families whose children qualify for free meals. But the UK Government had insisted that free meals would not continue outside of term time.

“Mart” itself is a derivation of “market”. And derivation is the pacifist sharing of oil proceeds in Nigeria by an unjust Federal Government when resource control beggars commonsense

The July 31, 2020 acquittal of psychopathic Adamawan thug called Senator Elisha Abbo from the gender-based violence instituted against him will linger for a long time like a malodorous smell in all legal chambers in Nigeria. In this judgement, Nigerians will be able to see the interior mental mooring of some of our magistrates and judges and the insult and disrepute they bring to the noble profession of law in this country.

We hereby call on the present Government of Nigeria to do the needful by “courageously” telling Nigerians that “it is no longer secret that it has since 2016 adopted radical Islamism as state religion in Nigeria or any part thereof including Kaduna State”. This will formally allow citizens of other religions including moderate Muslims to rise in defence of their faith and ethnic identities under the constitutional and lawful rights to life and self defence.

But just when many have declared the 2023 race open just a year after the last general election, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Governor of Kwara State, is instead upping the game to the chagrin of his harshest critics and comfort of the masses.

Instead of believing or disbelieving this or that, adherents are urged to have an open mind and take postulations even from the best of Mystics as mere working hypothesis or concepts for our individual research. This is for the fact that man doesn’t really know by being told. For a man to know, he must be part of what he knows.

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No party in the history of Nigerian politics survived leadership crisis of the magnitude experienced in the APC, leading to the dissolution of the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole-led NWC. From the First Republic to the current Fourth Republic, all political parties that went through leadership crisis ended up with divisions and breakaways. None survived and remained united.

It is however sad to note that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party that actually started the Chinese loan process, in 2010, has turned around to shamelessly take the lead in mobilising labour and civil societies albeit vested interests to continue to attack the present government.

I must state here that I have never completed a full dose of any malaria treatment or drugs before getting back on my feet in my adult life. Never! In fact, you would have to remind me sometimes before taking my drugs because I would have felt well after taking the second dose. This time, I completed the malaria medicine yet there was no improvement.

I’ve been amused by the strenuous efforts to explain exactly what Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, meant or did not mean when he said last week that rotating the Presidency was no longer useful. I thought what he told the BBC Hausa service, which has existed for decades without any translation problems, was clear enough: When the time comes, the next president should be chosen on merit, not on a “turn-by-turn” arrangement.