Many analysts think Mr Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, made a wise choice by picking Mr Peter Obi as his running mate. I think so too considering the poor shape of our economy today.
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Nigerians aged 35 and above are unlikely to have problems recalling what constituted our entertainment staple before 1993. It broadly consisted of movie releases at 10pm after the news bulletin on national or state-owned television, blockbuster movies on video cassette recorders, old Latin American soaps and dramas
I am sure that Abubakar Shehu is not alone. There are many Abubakar Shehus out there that are privileged enough to take their children to private schools in this country without actually knowing what is being taught to our children in such schools, but they don’t talk.
Obviously, there is an umbilicus of cowardice connecting the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu with Kanu
It’s not by magic that right-thinking Nigerians are excited by the prospect of Buhari getting a second term in office to continue to serve Nigerians, free of any parochial sentiments
It was a memo from a certain school in Rajasthan, India, called Amity University. In the three-paragraph memo, the Registrar, Vishwadeepak Singh, a retired military officer, had given students a deadline of August 13 to get boyfriends or girlfriends.
While other Nigerians have settled that matter and concluded that Obi is in order and that Igbos deserve to be Vice President of Nigeria and even President in due course, the Igbo elite, playing well-known stereotypical politics, are trying to create a little self-serving show of their own
During election season, there are persons like that in every political party. They are the people on the field. They take reports to Abuja, give feedback to the party at the national level and shuttle between their states and Abuja
It has been eight days since the All Progressives Congress attempted to host the primary election for House of Reps Abuja Municipal Area Council. I use the word attempted because it is no longer news that the election was a sham. What was initially well conceived to improve the democratic process and minimize candidate imposition has now created greater room for election fraud.
That the Igbo are in a political freeze is largely due to their own “sleight of hand”; that they are in disarray is because they never agree. And that they have not had any success in politics since 1999 is because they still think Nigeria is Egypt where they are slaves.
This Executive Order 06 is reminiscent of the infamous and draconian Decree No 4 of 1984, which was cruelly pursued and enforced by the incumbent President, who was the military head of state at the time. Without a doubt the obnoxious decree was one of the sore points of that administration in which the basic human rights of Nigerians were thrown to the dogs
On a personal note, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is not my kind of politician. To me he is too colourful, too brash and I don’t even like that his moustache that vaguely reminds me of Adolf Hitler’s fuzz. That said, those who like Governor Nyesom Wike’ says he the real grass root person and I just read and write. Good for him.
On Wednesday the 10th of October, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, paid a historic – albeit not unexpected – visit to his erstwhile boss and former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
Zamfara State has continued on a very controversial path, following the inability of the ruling All Progressives Congress to produce a candidate for the gubernatorial and legislative elections billed for February and March 2019.
Three years on, however, he is struggling to give Buhari a C, where C is less than average in security, the economy and the fight against corruption – three major areas where he promised change.
Thus, my focus in this paper is to identify place of Nigerian youths in colonial and post-colonial struggles and more importantly to elaborate on social inclusiveness of Nigerian youths in the emerging world order.
Just as you will not easily notice when he is tensed up except you study him or when he is offended except you find out why he positions the cap on his head, it will be difficult to read his mood. It takes such understanding to read the mood of Atiku Abubakar at the 2018 PDP elective national convention which held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, October 6 and 7.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Godfather of Lagos State politics, has every reason to give Buhari “an Ambode treatment.” The Atiku Challenge is real and bankable. The only option available to the incumbent is rigging!
They don’t have to go through the hassles of Lagos traffic, don’t have to get out of their night clothes and of course set their own daily work schedules but they often tell me that it requires self discipline.
Our nation is about to rewrite its own history; and it has pleased the Almighty God to append the signature of our Peoples Democratic Party as the author of the new pathway for the country with the choice we make about our Presidential candidate in the next few hours.