NIGERIAN politicians will always seize every opportunity to grandstand even on issues that ordinarily should be beyond politics. If there is anyone who can legitimately claim credit for the Not Too Young To Run Act, NTYTRA, signed into law last week by President Muhammadu Buhari, it is Hon. Tony Nwulu. He was elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, by the good people of Oshodi/Isolo Federal Constituency, Lagos State in 2015.
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People & Politics
Halt Buhari’s insidious Waterways Bill!
Buhari’s three hidden musketeers
By Ochereome Nnanna SINCE President Muhammadu Buhari formally announced his intention to run for a second time on 9th April 2018, he has always maintained that he will win. Every politician says that, even when they know they do not stand a dog’s chance. Politics apart, Buhari’s performance in his first two years were ratherRead More
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Nigeria’s real enemies
LAST week Wednesday, the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was forced, on behalf of his colleagues, to pronounce the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris as an “enemy of our democracy.” He declared him a persona non-grata and unfit to hold public office both within and outside Nigeria. This was after Idris refused on three occasions to honour the lawmakers’ summonses to answer critical questions bordering on the nation’s security challenges and the treatment the Police meted to one of their colleagues, Senator Dino Melaye.
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Why IGP Idris is beyond control
FEW Nigerians are surprised at the running battles between the Inspector- General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris and the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. On three separate occasions, he has been invited (or summoned) to clear the air on certain controversies appertaining to his office as the nation’s number one cop. For the third time, he has snubbed the highest legislative chamber of the country.
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Nigeria as a deadbeat dad
We live in an unusual society where a PhD holder was VP to a Grade II Teacher President in 1979 to 1983; today, a Professor of Law is VP to a man whose School Certificate remains in doubt. Ghanaians call Nigeria a country where the blind lead the sighted; they are correct
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Senate’s April coup
Omo-Agege, Adamu and others were elected to represent their people and not to become lackeys of the Executive; they are the ones who betrayed their constituents by pursuing issues irrelevant to their mandates and should be sanctioned with recalls by their constituents
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Lying to live long
Game on
Excess Crude Account is not president’s ATM
How can a government that claimed to have defeated Boko Haram “completely” ask for $1billion to fight insecurity of which the insurgency is still a major part? The FG must first confess lying to Nigerians. It must also publicly admit its failure to secure the nation, which is one of its cardinal policies
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