The Change That Never Was
BY SIMON KOLAWOLE Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Pardon my French. I was saying: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” When the All Progressives Congress (APC) wowed Nigerians…
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The Akpabio Syndrome, Yet Again
By AKIN OSUNTOKUN In the light of the individual and collective experience of Nigerians in the past several weeks, it is probably a shared experience that I have not been sleeping well in as many…
So Buhari Will Go Scot-Free?
Over the weekend, I was in a philosophical mood thinking about how unfair life can be. The popular Nigerian saying that “this life nor balance” came to mind. I thought about the tyrants of the…
2023 Presidential Poll: Nigeria Drawing Back The Hands Of The Clock?
Frisky Larr revisits the recently concluded presidential election in the country and submits that the outcome of the poll leaves much to be desired. The day February 25, 2023 has marked yet another turn on…
Student Sent To Prison Over Aisha Buhari Tweet
By Sharon Osaji and Esther Blankson A student of the Federal University, Dutse Jigawa, Aminu Mohammed, has been sent to the Suleja Correctional Centre in Niger State after tweeting about the wife of the President,…
Na Wa! See Reno Omokri
When I saw Reno Omokri, Dino Malaye and the gang of those who were part and parcel of Nigeria Limited in the past two decades with Atiku Abubakar in the US, I shook my head….
Datti Baba Ahmed: The Man Running With Peter Obi
During the electioneering campaign for Muhammadu Buhari before the 2015 presidential elections, there was an unconfirmed report that the domestic staffs of Buhari were Christians and that they were from the south. His supporters used…
Is Tinubu Buhari 2.0?
When Kashim Shettima – the APC vice presidential candidate alluded to the fact that he would handle security and Bola Ahmed Tinubu would handle the economy during the 62nd Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General…
Nigeria @ 62: A Fractured Present, A Foreboding Future
By Punch Editorial Board AS they gathered during week-long low-key activities marking the country’s 62nd Independence Anniversary, Nigeria’s thoroughly discredited political leaders, despite their hypocritical precepts, could not ignore the prevailing mood of melancholy among…
FG Should Account For Abacha Loot
By Punch Editorial Board THE recent return of $23 million to Nigeria by the United States government, part of funds looted by the late dictator, Sani Abacha, and his cronies, has once more brought to…