Background When in February of 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “Israel is Coming Back to Africa and Africa is Returning to Israel” he wasn’t joking. That is because Donald Trump must have advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get to…
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OUR NATION IS BLEEDING – FEMI MIMIKO
A failed state is one in which the state can no longer govern; where all the institutions and structures of governance have collapsed, and the polity has regressed dramatically into a vast ungoverned space. In the absence of an overarching…
The Impending Implosion of APC – Reuben Abati
Just take the phrase: “impending” in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in life, things happen – as seemingly absolute situations become redeemable and what originally appears impossible could be…
IGP Ibrahim Idris versus senators – Ebere Wabara
The Nigeria Police should not have wasted funds on full-page publications concerning the main reason the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris was invited to appear before the Senate to purport security challenges in parts of the country. Any discerning…
I HAVE BEEN RAPED, BY THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL CLASS – CHURCHILL OKONKWO
The harmless stone of my clenched fist they do not fear. They are not ashamed, neither are they deterred by the dirt dug up by my fingernails in an attempt to expose and stop them from continuously raping me. Disgusted,…
WHAT NIGERIAN POLITICIANS CAN LEARN FROM TRUMP
The news that Nigeria’s ambassador to Israel attended the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem last Monday apparently touched a raw nerve. So taken aback by the news was Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry that it fired a query…
8TH SENATE AND HARVEST OF CORRUPTION CASES
Twenty one senators, which represent about 21 per cent of the 109 lawmakers at the Upper legislative chamber, are currently facing criminal charges in the courts or are under intense investigation or interrogation by the security operatives or anti-graft agencies.…
On Kogi government, and Igala traditional rulers
The Kogi State government recently lifted the ban on some cultural practices in Igala land, leading to various feelings and reactions. While some people commended the government for taking a bold step in rooting the traditional institution in the political…
BETWEEN A FRACTURED SENATE AND AN INEPT IGP
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is an otherwise distinguished arm of government whose function of law making is at the very heart of our democracy. Senators of the republic are not called distinguished for nothing. Once a…
HOW MUCH DID PATIENCE JONATHAN ALLEGEDLY STEAL?
Four Times EFCC Went After Her ‘Illicit’ Funds Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s former First Lady, is arguably the most prosecuted of all wives of former presidents of the country. Since her husband, Ex-president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was dislodged form Aso Rock,…