Lagos NBA Confab: TINUBU AND I WILL HIT THE GROUND RUNNING IF ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 2023.....Shettima

• * Says 'We'll Replicate Our Successes In Lagos, Borno States'

By Toye Adeyanju (Lagos State Correspondent)

Nigerians should be sure of getting experienced leaders who will hit the ground running immediately from 29 May 2023, vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress Kashim Shettima has said.

LANRE AROGUNDADE, THE KING OF BOYS, AT 60

By Tunde Akanni, Ph.D

Gals – and our younger Lanruze used to have a large army of them – may also insist he’s theirs. Perhaps, he belonged to them more… Lanre, who now wears a clean skull, used to flaunt a fairly curly hair on the head. And he really could be meticulous taming it. I used to wonder, during our National Concord days, how the tough former NANS guy could spare enough time to tend the head.

LAST JOURNEY OF NIGERIA'S FOUR-TIME CABINET MINISTER, CHIEF TONYE GRAHAM-DOUGLAS (1939-2022).

By Godknows Boladei Igali, Ph.D

In the world view of the Ijaw people, who occupy Nigeria's Atlantic coastline, the largest of whales never die. When the cycle of life eclipses, the master behemoth simply migrates to the deepest recesses of the oceans never to be seen again. So is the parallel story of a once towering, perhaps most outlandishly colourful Nigerian statesman – Alabo (Chief) Tamunotonye Tamunotenyin Omubo Graham-Douglas (1939-2022).

LATE SHONEKAN, A PATRIOT, GREAT INTERVENTIONIST, SAYS PIUS ANYIM

• * Commends His Formation Of Nigerian Economic Summit Group, NESG

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former leader of Nigeria's National Assembly and Constitutional lawyer, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has expressed great shock and sadness at the death of the former Head of the Interim National Government (ING), Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, who passed on in Lagos on Tuesday at the age of 85.

LAWMAKERS, CHAIRMEN LOCKED OUT AS NIGER GOV PRESENTS N198.2B BUDGET PROPOSAL TP STATE ASSEMBLY

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

Some Niger State House of Assembly members and some Local Government Council Chairmen were on Thursday locked outside legislative complex reportedly on the ‘orders from above’ as the state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, presented the 2022 budget estimate to the legislature.

LESSONS ABOUT CHANGE FROM RUTO'S PLAYBOOK

By Azu Ishiekwene

In six African countries the heads of government have been in power for 20 years or more. Attempts to replace them by ballot have either been stalled, frustrated or crushed.

LET US ACCEPT GOD'S CHOICE THROUGH US

By Hassan Gimba

As you read this, the nation is awaiting the results of the presidential election held two days ago – some anxiously, some eagerly, and some with their hearts in their mouths, but all are hopeful for a new dawn because, depending on the results, hopes for a better nation can either be actualized or marred.

LET'S DISCUSS THE 'AGBADO' ECONOMY

By Simon Kolawole

One of the most enduring jokes on social media is centred on “agbado” — the Yoruba word for maize, which is equally known as corn. Many Nigerians might have forgotten the source. Speaking at his 69th birthday colloquium in March 2021, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then addressed as national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), advocated the massive recruitment of youths into the army so that Nigeria could tackle insecurity and unemployment at once. He obviously goofed by suggesting that 50 million youths could be recruited into the army to address the security challenges. His media office later clarified that he meant to say 50,000 youths as 50 million was way out of line.

LET'S NOT ALLOW INSECURITY TO CRIPPLE NIGERIA.....Sen Ida

By Ankeli Emmanuel (Sokoto)

Senator Ibrahim Ida (Sarduanan Katsina), has appealed to all Nigerians irrespective of religion, ethnicity, political inclination and status, to come together and support the government towards providing a safe and secured environment for all.

LET'S SAVE NIGERIA, DEMOCRACY IN 2021, PDP CHAIRMAN, UCHE SECONDUS, URGES NIGERIANS IN NEW YEAR

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)@CeleOkaf11

National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has urged Nigerians to put all hands on deck in the new year to save our democracy and the nation from destruction.

LET'S TALK HOPE

By Hassan Gimba

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future, someone once said. Even though there are enough reasons to continue with the treatise on banditry and shared sovereignty - such a depressing fact of our national life - however, today I want to look at the other side - the side of hope. Hope is to believe with an audacity that better days are afoot, the ability to see light at the end of the tunnel.

LG ELECTION AND DRUMBEATS OF LIBERATION IN RIVERS

By Nelson Chukwudi

In politics, sustainable outcomes, even though pursued vigorously, cannot flourish where alienation and coercion thrive. Only collaborative leadership can foster the resilience that gives political relationships desired longevity.

LG Poll: APC SWEEPS CHAIRMANSHIP SEATS IN NIGER STATE COUNCIL ELECTION

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the chairmanship seats in last Saturday's Local Government Council (LGC) election in Niger state, while opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP clinched 3 out of 274 Councilorship seats.

LG Poll: NIGER STATE SDP CHAIRMAN DEBUNKS ALLEGED FACTIONALIZATION OF PARTY

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

Niger state chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Buhari Yakubu Yerima has debunked speculations that the party is factionalized and stands no chance of making any impact in the coming Local Government Council (LGC) election.

LG polls: Bauchi PDP to conduct primaries Saturday

By Suzan Edeh

Bauchi-Ahead of the upcoming local governments elections in Bauchi state slated for 17th October 2020, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has disclosed that it would conduct primary election for chairmanship and councillorship aspirants under the party in the 20 local governments across the state on Saturday 22nd August this year.

LG Road Inauguration In Nasarawa: PDP SLAMS GOV SULE OVER FAILURE TO PERFORM IN FOUR YEARS

• * Gov's Aide, Opposition Party Disagree On Sule's Performance Rating
• 'Don't Encourage Failure', PDP Advises Vice President Shettima

By David Okpashi (Nasarawa State Correspondent, in Lafia)

Opposition party chieftain and member of the People's Democratic Party PDP in Nasarawa state, Barrister Awaisu Keffi, on Friday, warned governor Abdullahi Sule against associating president Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s government with what he described as the governor's 'failure'.

Liborous Oshoma: WHEN A MEDIA PLATFORM BECOMES A LYING TOOL

By Dodoh Okafor

1. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) apparatchiks in Abia State have found great excitement, and as some say, some sense of ecstasy, akin in some way to an orgasm, in the circulation of a media broadcast wherein Gov. Alex Otti was harshly criticised, called names and maligned with tissues of lies, half truths and regurgitated propaganda lines by a certain Liborous Oshoma, a self styled activist, known for running media errands here and there.

LIKE BUHARI, TINUBU STARTS STRONG WITH BUDGET PADDING

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

On Wednesday 23 November 2022, Abubakar Malami, Minister of Justice of President Muhammadu Buhari, was regaling himself with stories of $1 billion recovery, his latest figures being $300 million from Switzerland in 2017. He said nothing about $20 million that the United States returned more recently. Obviously, the amount was too small for accountability.

LIKE PLAY, LIKE PLAY, AMAECHI HAS BECOME IRRELEVANT

By Comfort Obi

I don’t know if it is appropriate for the old saying, “How are the mighty fallen”, to come into play here. But chai, life is a joke. Full of ironies. Tosses us up and down. And, I just wonder, and ask myself, why we struggle, so much, to impress life, instead of allowing it to deal with us as it deems fit.

LIKE SOLOMON'S SON, REHOBOAM, LIKE MUHAMMADU BUHARI?

By Bola Bolawole

Poet Laureate, Prof. Niyi Osundare’s latest intervention best captures the mood of the moment. Aptly touted “Incompetence weds Corruption”, the first and the last statements fascinate me most. The first says: “Pepeiye nigba ti oo m’owe/Ki lo be lu’odo se?” Translated, it is a pointed question to the Duck, wondering why, when it knew it could not swim, it still jumped into the river. The Duck here is the president, retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and the river is Nigeria and its state of affairs.