Many Nigerians will remember 2022 as the year of scarcity: the scarcity of money, petrol, aviation fuel, civility, and unity
Browsing: Reuben Abati
Watching a card carrying member of the PDP, Reuben Abati voice his criticism of Tinubu’s refusal to appear on Arise TV’s scripted Town Hall outing, reminds me of the several contradictions that bake the human mind. In taking Tinubu on for refusing to honour Arise TV’s invitation, the anchors throw decency to the wind as they poise as though they are the only existing binoculars or ethical compass from where Tinubu should be psychoanalysed. Sadly, the contradictions in these persons and their promoters make the moralist content of their emanations laughable but more seriously, insulting to our senses.
But the President’s position on the financial autonomy of local governments is most deserving of further emphasis.
On Sunday, the games began. FIFA had warned before then that everyone should focus on the sports: football, not politics.
Beautiful young lady, doing well at work and in her private life. Then everything came to an abrupt stop.
Nigeria Security Tracker reports 100 people were killed in poll-related violence in 2003, 300 in 2007 and 800 in 2011.
The induction followed a Gala Night organised for the Guild by the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma
It was clearly stated he is being denied his entitlement because of his political rivalry with President Muhammadu Buhari.
And thus, it is done: the people of the Republic of Kenya have elected a new President in the person of the current Deputy President William Samoei Arap Ruto, 55, who, barring any untoward developments, will succeed his boss, President Uhuru Kenyatta for whom the constitutional two-term limit of 10 years has come to an end.
Our high praise for Birmingham and the UK is not misplaced given the challenges that the hosts had to grapple with.
So, who wants to add 63 more institutions to this array of moribund, inefficient, poorly governed and perpetually-on-strike-colleges?
The big problem that we face, six months to the 2023 general election, is the obsession with minutiae and irrelevant.
This is ironic, for Nigeria is clearly one of the most religious countries in the world, with every street, every corner boasting of either a church, a mosque, a shrine or a temple.
Now in 2022, he presented himself as an advocate for power shift to the South, and his good self as presidential candidate.
Abiola was a Yoruba man. He won convincingly in more than the two-thirds of the states required by the Constitution.
The 2023 general elections may well turn out to be the most problematic since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
The net effect is that many politicians, veterans of election petition cases, have also become bathroom lawyers.
The last time I checked, the APC was talking about 40 aspirants, and 24 of them having paid the high fee of N100 million, and the party boasting of over N2.4 billion in its coffers.
My own take is that Gbajabiamila has raised a very fundamental question about Nigeria’s leadership recruitment process.
The standards of old have disappeared. Nigeria’s places of learning have become environments of strife and chaos.