(Published by the Sunday Tribune, July 27, 2025) Not long ago, I had a conversation with a Nigerian lawmaker who secured what was considered a near-impossible electoral victory in the 2023 general election. I asked him how his David was able to kill Goliath in that election, and he simply …
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(Published by the Sunday Tribune, March 23, 2025) OPINIONS are often divided about the rightness or wrongness of political actions, such as the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State as announced by President Bola Tinubu last week. This is because opinions are offshoots of attitudes and behaviours. …
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TWO weeks before the August 1, 2024- D-Day for the start of the #EndBadgovernanceinNigeria protest, programmed by the #takeitbacknigeria movement and its allies, there had been a huge paroxysm around the Federal Government. There were security briefings, meetings with the political class, traditional institutions and religious bodies, youth groups, etc. …
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Last week, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) reeled out some statistics that painted a very gloomy economic scenario of the nation since President Bola Tinubu took over. The most scary aspect of that picture was the claim that more than 300 companies have shut down, while some 380,000 jobs …
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When retired military officers join politics, they hardly distinguish between the enemy on the battlefield and the political enemy. Whereas the soldier is trained to kill, not even maim, his enemies (enemies of the state that commissioned him), the political field is a different plain. We agree to disagree and …
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