WHERE TO WAIT FOR BUHARI'S SUCCESSOR

By Azu Ishiekwene

There is no greater evidence that Nigeria’s political elite are cut off from citizens than the disconnected, cold portrayals in the news headlines.

WHERE'S THE COUP NEXT?

Azu Ishiekwene

There's a severe, earth-baking drought in the Horn of Africa. About 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti are in the grip of acute hunger. The rains have failed in three consecutive years, prompting the driest conditions experienced in the region in 41 years.

WHO IS AFTER OBI, KWAKWANSO AGAIN?

By Azu Ishiekwene

The former Labour Party presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi, thinks he is Nigeria’s most misunderstood politician. Why is it hard for us to see that his serial party flipping is not a sign of desperation but a tactic of survival for our own good? Why, even though he has flipped political parties five times in three election cycles, should he be compared to Vice President Atiku Abubakar in political vagrancy? Who is chasing Obi and his new soulmate, former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso? There are three possible answers.

WHO NOMINATED OSINBAJO FOR VICE PRESIDENT?

By Bolanle Bolawole

It is no longer news that the vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, is in the race to succeed his boss, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) as president.

WHO WILL HEAD NIGERIA'S BRIBE COLLECTION COMMISSION?

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Put the Steve Oronsaye Report on hold. We need to create a new Commission urgently. The tentative should be the Nigeria Bribe Collection Commission. There are multiple reasons for the urgency in setting up the Commission, but one should suffice for now - the President should have nothing to do with regulating bribery.

WHY A PRESIDENT SHOULD NOT BE A MINISTER

By Hassan Gimba

An Igbo adage says that when an anomaly persists for one year, it becomes the norm. So slowly, steadily but surely, it is becoming a norm, an accepted aberration, for a president in Nigeria to appoint himself as a minister. It is like saying in a country of 200 million-plus, there is no one good or capable enough to hold that particular office except the man entrusted with the running of the nation.

WHY ATIKU CAME TO MINNA ON WEDNESDAY

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

Feelers emerged on Wednesday night on the possible reasons why the 2023 Presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, paid an unexpected visit to Minna, Niger state on Wednesday.

WHY BUHARI DEFERRED FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL....BMO

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)

A Pro-Buhari group renowned as Buhari Media Organization (BMO), has explained that President Muhammadu Buhari's decision to defer the removal of fuel subsidy has nothing to do with the 2023 general elections.

WHY BUHARI DESERVES MORE ACCOLADES FOR 3.54% GDP GROWTH, SAYS BMO

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)

The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has said President Muhammadu Buhari administration deserves more plaudits than it is getting for Nigeria's 3.54% economic growth in the second quarter of 2022.

WHY CHIMARAOKE NNAMANI SHOULD APOLOGISE TO PETER OBI

By Valentine Obienyem

Considering the appalling tone of his offerings, one is inclined to wonder how many people read the surfeit of tweets from a past Governor of Enugu State, Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani! Employing adolescent English favoured by teen boys writing love letters to nubile girls they are wooing, Nnamani’s tweets were characterised by such banal words & expressions as “staccato”, “voluptuous masses of protoplasmic dribblers”, “hogwash gibberish trinity”, “a moving mass of hate, bile and vacuous bunkham”, “could not stand their kerfuffle”, “devious opium”, “trancelike orgy of tribalism and rabid religiosity”, among others. One can always detect in his continued tweets – glaring tissues of puerilities, iniquities, insults, imprecations - something akin to pompous rhetoric. There are so far, uncharacteristically, no lucid intervals in this madness. We miss in them a sense of orderly synthesis, and find merely a congeries of uncoordinated parts, lies, episodes, and personalities.

WHY DSS MUST ARREST PETER OBI, DATTI AHMED....Festus Keyamo

• * Details Of His Petition To State Security

By Emmanuel Mogbede

Mr Festus Keyamo, has petitioned the State Security Services (SSS), demanding the arrest and prosecution of Mr Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed for making incendiary comments on television.

WHY FG REMOVED FCT ABUJA FROM THE SINGLE TREASURY ACCOUNT....Tinubu

By Janet Bassey (Governance Correspondent)

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu explained on Sunday in Abuja that his administration removed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to expedite development and enhance resident participation in governance. . The President, who received FCT residents at the Presidential Villa for Sallah homage, said the bureaucracy associated with the TSA was hampering infrastructure growth in the capital city and had to be reviewed for impact and progress.

WHY FG WON'T BACK DOWN ON DE-REGISTRATION OF OHANEZE, AREWA SOCIO-CULTURAL GROUPS .....Abubakar, CAC Boss

By Chinwendu Agoha (MDA Reporter)

The Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Mr Garba Abubakar, has said that the federal government will not change mind on its de-registration of foremost socio-cultural groups in Nigeria, Ohaneze Ndigbo and Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).

WHY GOV UZODIMMA DISSOLVED HIS CABINET

By Gloria Acholonu (Imo State Correspondent)

Facts have emerged that internal sabotage and allegations of bribery were the major reasons for the sudden sack of 20 Commissioners out of the 27 member cabinet Commissioners in Imo state on Wednesday, by governor Hope Uzodimma.

WHY I AM RUNNING FOR ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP......Soludo

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

Renowned Development Economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has, once again, explained that he would run for the 2021 Anambra state governorship election scheduled to hold on Saturday, November 6.

WHY I DECAMPED TO APC.....Baba, Bauchi SDP Senatorial Candidate

By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)

A senatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the Bauchi North district in the 2023 general elections, Hon. Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, popularly known as 'IMBA', has dumped the SDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

WHY I JOINED THE LABOUR PARTY.....Peter Obi

By Desmond Ukandu (Politics Editor)

Barely 48 hours after he bade farewell to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former governor of Anambra state and 2023 presidential aspirant, Mr Peter Obi (known as Okwute), has joined the Labour Party (LP) on the platform of which he intends to pursue his presidential ambition.

WHY I WANT TO DIVORCE ATIKU .....Wife, Jennifer

• * Relocates To UK, Sell Atiku's Dubai Properties

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is currently enmeshed in a divorce saga with his Igbo wife, Jennifer.

WHY IS AFRICA PLAYING WITH FIRE?

By Azu Ishiekwene

There is fire in Ouagadougou. And who’s to say where it’s catching next? For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup that removed military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.

WHY IS THE NORTH ALWAYS COMING IN LATE?

By Bolanle Bolawole

The news media were awash last week that the North’s governors and traditional rulers have come around to support state police after a meeting they held in Abuja; the reason for their about turn was given as the worsening security situation in the North. These are the same leaders that have often risen in stout defence of the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, threatening critics with mayhem and insisting, against the grains of evidence and acting like the ostrich, that the North is more secured under their own son, Buhari, than it was under his predecessor, the Ijaw man Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.