Browsing: Garba Shehu

The ruling party of country’s longest trail of democratic rule would surely count among those that lost on all counts in the previous year. The Peoples Democratic Party believes in two things

Since the release of his letter to the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has come under intense scrutiny relating to his motives, rather than the message and this is for a good reason.

It is a fluke or fifth columnist war front. “We will not shoot at Israel

While this is going on, the country continues its increasing reputation as Africa’s hotbed of scams. Africa’s biggest financial and drug crimes originate from here. The most horrific cases of kidnapping, robbery and piracy on the continent come from here

The Punch newspaper dated November 14, 2013 reported President Goodluck Jonathan announcing that he abandoned the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Colombo, Sri-Lanka to campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Tony Nwoye, in the failed November 16 governorship election in Anambra State

Until it chose a nationalistic approach to the problem, the administration at the centre had dismissed suggestions of security lapses out of hand, and pushed conspiracy theories against political opponents in the North. Things have now eased up a great deal

The epidemic nature of the malfeasance however notwithstanding, you will still find a few chiefs, here and there, who are ready to say “No” to the minister and damn all consequences

Look at it this way. If we had spent the enormous quantity of newsprint and quality Radio/TV air time the country has used in the last two weeks discussing the ASUU strike, Boko Haram or kidnapping instead of the mismanagement of the Ministry of Aviation and the actions of one person, Mrs Stella Oduah, I bet you some distance will have been covered in finding solutions

This bias is evident from composition of the panel selected to draw up the conference modus operandi. They selected towering personalities from the first-eleven of some regions and gave the North a short-drift. A Professor here, a Senator from there but when it came to the North, they brought a Dauda Birma with a dubious constituency. Nobody as of yet knows who he represents

The swelling crowd was waiting excitedly to actually experience the fun of seeing the man jump. Of course, nobody in the crowd would admit it. It’s all theatre. That’s why serious people had no difficulties dismissing the conference out of hand

In a booming aviation industry that needs to be matched by a surge of infrastructure projects to meet demands, a thinking that is exceptional and unexpected is required to generate money for expansion works so that the service meets demand

When the late singer Fela Anikulapo Kuti crooned in the 70s “Authority Killing, Authority Stealing,” who knew that he was talking about the present Plateau State government?

A rough translation of an Igbo proverb says that if you see the members of the community using a wooden shovel to bury your neighbor, you should know that that is what they will use to bury you when it is your turn

Let me cite one example. Anyone with a finger on the pulse of the nation will not have been surprised by a recent series of adverting distancing of Abdullahi Inde, the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar

There are several reasons why the problem in the PDP has no easy solution. One of this is the President’s immediate circle of officials and advisers

Without meaning to pontificate, or engaging in moral one-up-manship, the lesson of that period is simply this: Bad habits dropped during the cleansing period should be done away for good; good deeds imbibed should conversely be taken forward beyond the Ramadan

In a democracy, there must be ample freedom to choose, reject, discuss and debate. This is what the PDP continues to miss. In line with this principle, the PDP and its powerful ethnic Ijaw high-command have every right to present the incumbent in 2015 and Nigerians of other persuasions have a right to reject him

The Almajiri system was imported into northern Nigeria from Northern Africa. Almajiri is itself from the Arabic word Almahajir, meaning immigrant. The Hausa use the word to refer to both a student and a beggar

To blame “unseen hands” for influencing newspaper reports calling for the completion and utilization of the Kano airport is nothing short of blackmail

The controversy on Al-Bashir arose against the background of two warrants issued for his arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2009 and 2010. Al-Bashir is being accused of committing war crimes over the conflict in the old Sudan’s Darfur Province