Politics

  “All the committees that are charged with responsibility for a smooth transition of the governor have reported from their various committees that things have taken shape for the event which is scheduled to hold at a grand reception in Gusau on Tuesday, June 29” OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | JULY 28, 2021 Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has revealed that ...

Being text of the First Memorial Lecture in Honour of late Professor Haruna Wakili of History Department, Bayero University, Kano, Mambaya House, Sunday 20th June 2021. By Alkasum Abba, Department of History, ABU, Zaria. Introduction I want to start by thanking my colleagues at Bayero University, Kano, especially, the Director of Mambaya House, Professor Ismaila M. Zango for giving me ...

  Since only “masters” can have “slaves,” people who call others “Fulani slaves” have clearly accepted the Fulani as “masters,” indicating that they have also internalized their own inferiority before the Fulani. By Farooq A. Kperogi Fears of “Fulani domination” have endured since Nigeria’s founding but, more than ever before, there is now an insanely unhealthy obsession with the Fulani ...

  KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY CHIEF AYO ADEBANJO, AG. LEADER, AFENIFERE AT THE ‘NIGERIA’S 2023 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION INTER-ETHNIC PEACE DIALOGUE’ WHICH HOLDING AT TRANSCORP HILTON HOTEL, ABUJA ON MONDAY, MAY 31, 2021. Your Excellencies, Kabiyesis, our friends in the International Community, Fellow Nigerians, gentlemen of the press, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure for me and my organization, Afenifere ...

An interesting story about his return is a manifesto with a four-point agenda code-named ‘SWAG. The 2019 presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has dumped his earlier decision to not run for the Nigerian presidency in 2023.  According to the erudite scholar, his decision to re-contest is due to concern for the youth and to ...

  “In view of the inherent contradictions in the current exercise, I will strongly recommend that the NASS for once and for posterity sake tow the path of Truth and of Honour by jettisoning the entire fraudulent document called the 1999 constitution foisted on the Nigerian citizens by anti-democratic forces, substitute it with the original true people’s constitution of 1963 ...

  NAN REPORT The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has decried the alleged destruction of the party’s campaign banners and posters by supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). PDP Chairman, Adedeji Doherty, raised this concern in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday ahead of the July 24 Local Government Election in the state. Doherty ...

“Dispossessing communities of their ancestral lands, encouraging denizens of the forests to overrun lands belonging to other people and forcing alien bands of migrants on the local populace to live ‘side-by-side’ with other communities cannot be for the purpose of animal husbandry. The Southern state governors’ forum has reacted to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and ...

  Even by the admission of the 1999 Constitution at Section 14(2)(a), “Sovereignty Belongs to the People, from whom, Government, through this Constitution Derive all its Powers and Authority. Eminent Nigerians, including former Chief of Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (retd); former Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang; Second Republic Senator, Professor Banji Akintoye; President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo; ...

  It’s to the eternal glory of God that both Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole, two of the most formidable Pan-Nigerian political elites, stood firmly resolute, as General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua’s loyalists are still alive. Mallam Abdulkarim Muhammad Abdullahi I have never met the former Lagos State Governor, Jagaban Bola Ahmed Tinubu in person, except indirectly by ...