….2024 Edo Governorship Election Death Kneel By Aniekan Udofia After the outcome of the 2024 Edo State Governorship election, I told a follow political scientist that there will be mass defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2027 general elections. My submission was that hardly will many of the current crop…
President Bola Tinubu. By Etim Etim FCT Minister Nyesome Wike spent a whopping N39 billion to renovate the International Conference Centre in Abuja and renamed it Bola Tinubu International Conference Center in continuation of the administration’s craze to name everything after the president. The facility was built in 1991 by the Babangida military régime at…
As Nigeria celebrates the 26th year of unbroken Democracy, we doff our hats to the poor on the streets, the ordinary Nigerians who have shown resilience, believing in the stoic philosophy of dogged determination despite challenges and adversity. It is true that we have had 26 years of unbroken democracy but it is also 26…
By Emmanuel Ndon “Critics do not determine how bright a star decides to shine” – Matshona Dhliwayo Many might be tempted to believe that Governor Umo Eno’s decision to move from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political disaster essentially because the PDP has held sway in the…
Gov. Umo Eno. By Osondu Ahirika Exodus. I’m not referring to the historical departure of the Israeli Israelites from Egypt. But the common parlance. Emigration of people usually in droves from one place to another. Akwa Ibom State is caught in this Passover bug. Birds migrate too. Massively moving away from one environment to another…
By Kingston Princewill/Magnus Effiong The gale of defections hitting the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and others in Cross River State would in no wise rattle the once biggest political party in Africa, PDP officials have said. Recall that high profile personalities and huge number of PDP members, including its former deputy…