Nigeria: The constitutional requirement of duly electing a candidate in a presidential election
‘The oppositions have made it acrimonious that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the All Progressives Congress’s candidate, Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, elected president, where he failed to score at least 25% votes in the FCT citing the constitutional provision that a candidate shall be duly elected as president where he has not less […]
Nigeria’s profligate leaders and Peter Obi’s exceptional discipline
Peter Obi (file photo) ‘Sudden removal of fuel subsidy and harmonization of the hitherto multiple exchange rates – two critical policy decisions taken by Tinubu on the day of his inauguration, have put Nigerians under huge stress’ By Emeka Alex Duru There was this picture of the former President, Muhammadu Buhari, picking his teeth in […]
Destroying seized oil tankers unacceptable
The destroyed vessel. Photo: The Nation ‘Destroying a vessel loaded with 800,000 barrels of crude oil should be taken as a new low in the demonstration of wastefulness on the part of those who should be watching over the nation’s resources. The entire episode requires urgent investigation’ By Kome Odhomor Oil theft in Nigeria is […]
Reflecting on Mmesoma’s JAMB result
Mmesoma Reflecting on Mmesoma’s JAMB result ‘Even the INEC-selected President unarguably contributed to the rust in our country from the gamut of his entire life that is defined by manipulation, from his name, educational qualification, and origin to the worst manipulation in the history of electioneering that threw him up’ By Valentine Obienyem I was […]
Shell’s unending spills
‘New investments in the fossil fuels sector and incessant new oil spills threaten to push the world into climate catastrophe and expose the wrong headed pathway taken by nations when they gather at COPs for climate negotiations’ By Kome Odhomor With two major oil spills within a week in Rivers State, Nigeria, it is obvious […]
Buhari’s fuel subsidy confession and limits of hypocrisy
Muhammadu Buhari ‘If the former president was genuine in his claims of messiahship to Nigerians, there was no reason he should not have laid the entire cards on the table and asked Nigerians to follow him in bearing the burden of the subsidy removal’ By Emeka Alex Duru (08054103327, nwaukpala@yahoo.com) Even out of office, President […]
Obi’s Africa’s new face of democracy
Peter Obi (file photo) ‘Bangura noted with satisfaction that Obi did not mobilize his teeming supporters to take to violence despite the fact that the election was believed to have been massively rigged. Instead, the Labour Party candidate restrained himself and chose the legal option to reclaim his mandate’ By Amanze Obi The electoral authorities […]
Alaba Market demolition and anti-Igbo sentiments in Lagos
Alaba International market By Emeka Alex Duru (08054103327, nwaukpala@yahoo.com) I confess that I initially bought into the explanation by officials of Lagos state on the reasons for demolition of some structures in the popular Alaba International Market. The Government had on Sunday, June 18, commenced pulling down 17 buildings it tagged distressed at the market. The […]
Could Tinubu’s copycatting Obi erase the dirty spot of dented mandate?
Tinubu (file photo) ‘But what is perhaps not privy to APC and Tinubu is that copycats are rarely successful in the long run’ By Edward Musa Should Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) worry at the apparent copycatting of his policies and programmes by the tremulous and doddering government of the All Progressives Congress […]
Ode to Buhari from Tinubu
Buhari and Tinubu Utterances of a lover about to kill his mistress and himself By Patrick Imo Sleep, my beloved, sleep! be patient! – we shall keep our secret closely hid beneath the coffin-lid. There is no other place on earth or air for such a love as ours, or such despair! And neither hell […]
