Bola Ahmed Tinubu, known and affectionately called by his close friends and associates as BAT, is a tough nut to crack. The Jagaban of Borgu kingdom in Niger State and the Asiwaju of Lagos, has faced many battles in his political life and he has bruises and scars to show as evidence. He was a…
Find here a post titled “Separation is not about war; it has peaceful aspect”, said to have been authored by one Aminu Sa’ad Beli, which was widely circulated on the WhatsApp few weeks ago. The views appear to be based on widely known historical facts. As we all know, facts by themselves are nothing but…
Yesterday marked exactly 28 years to the day, when the freest, most credible and most transparent presidential election ever, took place in Nigeria. It was on Saturday, June 12 1993, that two Muslims, Moshood Kashimawo Olanbiwonnu, Abiola, (MKO Abiola for short) and , running as President and Vice President on a joint ticket, defied primordial…
On their way to the promise land, the leaders of Israel decided to send a team of spies to check out the land they were to take over. They sent out twelve spies, one from each of the twelve tribes. And the spies got back after performing their duties with two reports. The first report…
“Who is the Presidency?”, an obviously irritated Babachir Lawal asked the excited journalists, who crowded him after emerging from the Federal Executive Council meeting sometimes in 2016, to inquire whether it was true he had been suspended from office by the Presidency. The journalists’ enquiry resulted from the allegation against Lawal that he cut the…
Simply put, a secured society is not necessarily one that has no challenges or problems. Security is not absence of threats. It is the ability of the state to ensure that people within its jurisdiction go about their daily endeavors without any threats to their lives, families and properties; or if such threats or challenges…
