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PDP: THE WAY FORWARD – part 2 0

PDP: THE WAY FORWARD – part 2

  I am not a happy man this bright afternoon day of August 17. I am not happy because of certain ominous signals emanating from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) convention holding in Port-Harcourt,...

NOT MIRACLE 0

NOT MIRACLE

  You are a 35 year old man. You say President Buhari has failed.    I ask, have you failed as a young man? You say no.   Then on what basis do you...

REPEAT OF FRANCE ’98? I HOPE NOT 0

REPEAT OF FRANCE ’98? I HOPE NOT

Nigeria’s Dream Team VI finally succumbed to Colombia earlier this morning in a 2-0 defeat in the on-going Rio Olympics games.   Our players did not particularly play so badly. They had superior ball...

DALUNG’S OGBOJU APOLOGY 0

DALUNG’S OGBOJU APOLOGY

Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung   We are very funny in this country. And Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung (or is it Dalong?) seems to be most funny, or comical, of...

SHAME OF A NATION 0

SHAME OF A NATION

  I am outraged this morning.   I mean…… if ever my country Nigeria had an incompetent Minister, Youth and Sports Minister Solomon Dalong is it. How on earth did we end up with...

MEMO TO MY PRESIDENT 0

MEMO TO MY PRESIDENT

President Muhammadu Buhari   My President,   That sense of citizenship and duty to my fatherland which often propels me to take a position on issues of national importance has once again come upon...

EUROPE HAS STARTED AGAIN 0

EUROPE HAS STARTED AGAIN

A military coup? In Europe? In Turkey? In the 21st Century?   Europe has started again. It has started to spearhead the return of a political culture that was already dying.   If this...

LET HADIZA BE 0

LET HADIZA BE

Hadiza Bala Usman   Buhari-bashing is ok. It is his lot to be bashed. So there is no issue with that. But sometimes I can’t help but wonder what we really want as a...

TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN KESHI – by Patrick Ezeh 0

TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN KESHI – by Patrick Ezeh

Stephen Keshi   As late Super Eagles player, captain and coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, gets set for his final journey to the great beyond, July 29, Patrick Ezeh takes a look at his guts,...

POLITICAL WISDOM 101 0

POLITICAL WISDOM 101

  You are a civil servant, you work for government, government that derives its revenue from oil. Yet you support militants bombing oil pipelines, simply because you hate Buhari.    Now your governor has...