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…
By Akin Osuntokun What are the corollaries of either the All Progressive Congress, APC or the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP winning the 2023 presidential election? If Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu ticket wins the election, the…
By Ata Ukuta The recent radio interview where former President Olusegun Obasanjo said “My advice for Nigerian youths is that they should never let anybody tell them that you are the leaders of tomorrow. If…
By Ata Ukuta When the Speaker of the House of Representatives was vying for the speakership in 2019, he felt his God and religion would be an impediment. He quickly jumped ship from being an…
By Akin Osuntokun The choreography and orchestration began with the imposition of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC. Then in cahoots with so called Independent national electoral commission, INEC,…
If you ask the average Yoruba man or woman who they would vote for in the coming presidential election, they will most likely mention the name of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Their Hausa or Fulani Muslim…
By Simon Kolawole In Waziri Adio’s article, “Is Nigeria Due for Another Electoral Upset?” (THISDAY, January 16, 2022), he made a strong and neat argument on the near-impossibility of an upset in the 2023 presidential…
NIGERIAN POLITICIANS If you respectA Nigerian politicianYou have earnedMy full disrespect. If you honourA Nigerian politicianYou have earnedThe title of a dishonorable. If you promoteA Nigerian politicianYou have promotedYourself to a prostitute. If you trustA…
By Sodiq Oyeleke The Peoples Democratic Party asked Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, to “stop his empty lamentations over the persistent banditry in the state”. Instead, the party urged him to “be on…
JOHN ALECHENU takes a look at the faceoff between the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party over the removal of oil subsidy by the APC-led Federal Government prior to becoming Nigeria’s…
