Zamfara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, gave a masterclass to incoming governors last week. The governor, who has obviously become wiser on his way out of office, advised his incoming colleagues to start thinking now of what they can do for their people and how they can find the money to do it.
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The Ogun State Chapter of Omoluwabi Movement, a socio-cultural group with South-West focus, has described the recent report credited to the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on “ending godfatherism in Lagos” as a mere “idle talk of a frustrated political expansionist.”
Being the Keynote Address by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, at the victory dinner of the All Progressives Congress in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to office in a seismic political shift that swept out of office 16 years of continuous rule by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP recorded yet another resounding victory to win a second term in office, leading his closest rival by a record-setting four million votes.
Last month, Nissan announced fresh plans to start building its award-winning Navara one-ton pick-up at its Rosslyn plant in Pretoria – South Africa, a significant leap for Nissan’s industrial expansion in Africa.
Today, progressive-minded black Africans are paralysed by pessimism. They believe that black Africa’s problems go beyond the usual shibboleths of corrupt leadership, mindless brutality, tribalism and broken vision
If he was talking about politics, I might agree; because that is one area where there’s a surplus, and also a place where Ngige has established a reputation as a clown
The history of modern politics in Nigeria, especially since the return to civil rule in 1999, cannot be written without generous space devoted to the personality of Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi. Amaechi is currently the Minister of Transportation and in the last general elections, was the Director General of the President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, a position he also held successfully in the 2015 presidential poll.
The 2019 presidential election, in which Muhammadu Buhari was declared winner, has continued to generate tension. The main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has since filed a petition at the election tribunal. But he did not stop there. Mr. Abubakar has embarked on an aggressive global campaign that attempts to paint a grim picture of two presidents-elect. The irony, however, is that the central element of Abubakar’s argument, his purported “server results”, lacks common sense. This begs the question: What is Atiku’s real motive?
In the recent past, some international organisations, including agencies of the United Nations, have been issuing some reports whose parameters are unknown and whose outcomes raise a lot of doubt, for those who have knowledge of the issues in focus. Take for instance the recent pronouncement that Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living below the poverty line.
The vexed issue of restructuring was on the front burner at the just concluded national retreat held by Afenifere Renewal Group in Ekiti State.
In a response to an enquiry by the Punch Newspaper on the controversial “private visit” of President Muhammadu Buhari to the United Kingdom and the President’s refusal to transmit a letter to the National Assembly which would have enabled the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo,
The myriad of problems confronting the geopolitical space called Nigeria today could be traced to one single cause. It was a marriage that was not canvassed, not negotiated, not consented to that was the root, the father and mother of all the diseases that had plagued Nigeria since 1914. The diseases include consistently rigged Population Census, the basic fraudulent allocation of seats in the old federation, the fraudulent foundation of the country’s Military and the Police, and the inbuilt ingredients of sectional domination.
Black Africans derive great joy from their ancient heritage and history and millions are still proudly Africans despite the mayhem and poverty of their resource –rich continent. Black scholars and Afrocentrists from all corners of the world salute Africa as the veritable and undisputable birthplace of civilization.
It is said: “It is better to give than to receive.” But I think, some giving(s) do not come from the quarters of charity, sacrifice, wisdom or chivalry, but from a place of deep insecurity and delusion of grandeur.
The lingering feud between the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency and Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited amplify the dreaded question of sanctity of agreements in the Nigerian business environment.
Nigerians love travel and adventure. But Ukraine and its forbiddingly cold capital, Kiev, wasn’t a favourite destination for many years. That is until Pastor Sunday Adelaja of the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, fired the public’s imagination with his evangelical-charismatic brand of the gospel.
It is sad that our democracy in Nigeria continues to create little tyrants. Amosun is definitely not alone and this is not in any way, a partisan comment
The presence of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; the Governor-elect of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; and other top dignitaries at the funeral of Pastor Tokunbo Olorunnimbe, Principal Secretary of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, at the City of David Sanctuary, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Victoria Island, Lagos State, indicated the high regard people had for him. But that and the tributes showered at the occasion do not tell the full story of the man whose demise last month has locked many people in shock.
Apostle Paul said unequivocally that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation of the Christian faith. In other words, if Jesus didn’t rise, Christianity is false.