Opinion

By our reporter A write-up that analysed the motives of three presidential candidates in the 2023 elections has been broadly shared on social media. The post, which is said to have been authored by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former governor of the central bank of Nigeria (CBN), asserted that none of the candidates are in the…

By Musa Tanimu Nasidi Candidates elected on Thursday under the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the House of Assembly in Kogi State showed that not all the government endorsed aspirants got the tickets. Our reporter who monitored the exercise reports, that despite the political intrigues and manipulations of the primaries in favour of some alleged…

“Their main plan is to hijack the primary election materials from the party officials and buy the INEC representative that will be incharge”, she said. A constituent of Yagba Federal Constituency has issued warning to the National Leader of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and House of Representative Member for Yagba Federal Constituency, Elder Leke…

As kogi West 2023 Senatorial Election draw closer, it’s of good note to remind us that at hand no better hand or person than to return Distinguished Senator Smart Adeyemi back to the red chamber. The truth remains the more you stays in that seat the more the rop in your neck, that means he…

Former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Abdulmumin Jibrin issued the following statement explaining why he defected from the Congress of all progressives (APC) to the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP). In the statement, Jibrin, who is loyal to presidential hopeful Bola Tinubu, also launched a vicious attack on an unidentified individual who he said is determined…

By Mahmud Jega Her late father Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sokoto, first and only Premier of the Northern Region; her late guardian who brought her up, Alhaji Muhammadu Bashar, former regional minister and Emir of Daura; and her late husband Alhaji Umaru Ali Shinkafi, top spymaster and frontline presidential candidate, were the most public of…

Within the last two weeks, the plan by some key All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains to drag former President Goodluck Jonathan into the presidential race ahead of the 2023 general elections has been the main subject of debates among political analysts. What makes the debates so heated is that Jonathan is expected to contest the…

BY MAHMUD JEGA We won’t live to regret itAll the men and women who paid tens or hundreds of millions of naira for expression of interest and nomination forms in various political parties in order to run for President, have they paused for a minute and thought about what they are bargaining for? I thought…

By Jide Oluwajuyitan And what happened when we were united? We got to the zenith, to the envy of all. But the moment we departed from the source of our strength – truth and righteousness as espoused by Orunmila, our illustrious forebear, we were infiltrated by those operating below the level of ‘Afenifere’ worldview which…

THE ALTERNATIVE By Reno Omokri As the party primaries draw near, it is sad to see many people still playing the same old sentimental politics which has left them perpetually on the back burner. Why do they do it? Is it that they are unteachable, or unreachable, or that they lack the ability to suppress…