A petition was written against the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen on the 7th day of January 2019 by a former media Aide to President Muhammad Buhari, one Mr Dennis Aghanya who is also the former National publicity Secretary of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), a party on which platform President…
A couple of weeks back this govt announced the release of N22bn for the payment of pensions and entitlements of workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways. As usual, I adopted a wait and see approach. With this govt, that’s simple wisdom. And then today I’m hearing that pension verification for those workers will be between…
I bet you, if the Saudis had foreseen the fall-out from this Jamal Khashoggi mystery hit, they would have thought twice before embarking on such murderous undertaking. It is interesting seeing how the disappearance of a dissident journalist in the Saudi embassy in Turkey has triggered a series of diplomatic reactions which is causing more…
In a country where strange news has lost the ability to shock an increasingly cynical citizenry, a pronouncement by no less a personality than the President himself has aroused fresh apprehension in the polity concerning the sustainability of Nigeria’s democracy and the principles define it. The current uneasiness is more perhaps because of the weight…
Muhammadu Buhari arrived the political scene in 2003 as something of an irony no-one took very seriously. Transition from strict military dictatorship to flexible, negotiated democratic norms seemed a huge leap for someone who was renowned for strait-jacketed, iron-fisted rule and many wondered how he would cope with the compromises characteristic of democracy. Today however,…
Atiku Abubakar has been around the Nigerian political scene long enough to become a household name. Building a political career that has spanned over three decades, the Waziri Adamawa has never left anyone in doubt about his intentions of becoming the President of Nigeria someday. He made the first attempt towards actualizing this in 1992…
Exactly three years ago, President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as Nigeria’s fifth Executive President at Eagles Square Abuja at a historic ceremony that marked a very important stage in Nigeria’s democratic journey being the first time an incumbent would lose elections and hand over power to a challenger. Heavily advertised as a man of…